Sakarya (electoral district)

Sakarya
Sakarya
electoral district; for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
	Sakarya shown within Turkey
Province	Sakarya
Electorate	550,883
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	7; Historical 6 (1999-2011); 7 (1995-1999); 6 (1987-1995); 5 (1977-1995); 6 (1961-1977); 8 (1957-1961);
MPs	List Hasan Ali Çelik AKP; Ayhan Sefer Üstün AKP; Şaban Dişli AKP; Ayşenur İslam AKP; Ali İhsan Yavuz AKP; Engin Özkoç CHP; Münir Kutluata MHP;
Turnout at last election	89.24%
	Representation
AK Party	5 / 7
CHP	1 / 7
MHP	1 / 7
	Politics of Turkey; Political parties; ; Elections previous; next; ;

Sakarya is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects 7 members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system.

Members

Population reviews of each electoral district are conducted before each general election, which can lead to certain districts being granted a smaller or greater number of parliamentary seats. The number of seats allocated to Sakarya fluctuated between six and seven seats in the last twenty years; most recently it rose to seven seats.

MPs for Sakarya, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)	2002 (22nd parliament)	2007 (23rd parliament)	2011 (24th parliament)	June 2015 (25th parliament)
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)	2002 (22nd parliament)	2007 (23rd parliament)	2011 (24th parliament)	June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP		Cevat Ayhan FP	Şaban Dişli AK Party			Mustafa İsen AK Party
MP		Nezir Aydın FP	Hasan Ali Çelik AK Party			Recep Uncuoğlu AK Party
MP		Osman Fevzi Zihnioğlu MHP	Ayhan Sefer Üstün AK Party			Ali İnci AK Party
MP		Şaban Ramis Savaş DSP	Erol Aslan Cebeci AK Party		Ayşenur İslam AK Party
MP		Nevzat Ercan DYP	Recep Yıldırım AK Party		Ali İhsan Yavuz AK Party
MP		Ersin Taranoğlu Anavatan	Süleyman Gündüz AK Party	Münir Kutluata MHP		Zihni Açba MHP
MP	No seat				Engin Özkoç CHP

General elections

2011

2011 Turkish general election: Sakarya^[1]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	AK Party	Hasan Ali Çelik, Ayhan Sefer Üstün, Şaban Dişli, Ayşenur İslam, Ali İhsan Yavuz	334,823	61.62
	CHP	Engin Özkoç	88,043	16.20
	MHP	Münir Kutluata	81,515	15.00
	SAADET	None elected	14,619	2.69
	HAS Party	None elected	9206	1.69	N/A
	Independent	Hüseyin Tanış^[2]	3450	0.63
	DP	None elected	3237	0.60
	Büyük Birlik	None elected	2144	0.39
	HEPAR	None elected	1547	0.28
	DYP	None elected	1152	0.21
	DSP	None elected	1127	0.21	'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000A−QINU`"'
	Labour	None elected	835	0.15
	Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today)	None elected	514	0.09
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	510	0.09
	MP	None elected	375	0.07
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	231	0.04
Turnout			543,328	89,24

June 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	324,001	56.6%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	111,127	19.4%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	90,733	15.9%
	SP	Felicity Party	22,444	3.9%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	14,772	2.6%
		Other	8,858	1.5%
Total			571,935
Turnout			88.03
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	399,039	67.6%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	90,810	15.4%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	72,269	12.2%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	9,924	1.7%
	SP	Felicity Party	7,860	1.3%
		Other	10,386	1.8%
Total			590,288
Turnout			89.85
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	358,992	57.4%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	84,952	13.6%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	84,316	13.5%
	IYI	Good Party	59,290	9.5%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	14,048	2.2%
	SP	Felicity Party	11,286	1.8%
		Other	13,002	2.1%
Total			625,886
Turnout			90.37
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Sakarya^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	349,218	69.08
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	144,823	28.65
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	11,477	2.27
Total votes			505,518	100.00
Rejected ballots			11,024	2.13
Turnout			516,542	79.04
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

^ [1] High Electoral Commission of Turkey
^ Arslan, Ferit (10 April 2011). "BDP adaylarını açıkladı (BDP announces its candidates)". Radikal. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
^ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
^ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

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[1] [1] High Electoral Commission of Turkey

[2] Arslan, Ferit (10 April 2011). "BDP adaylarını açıkladı (BDP announces its candidates)". Radikal. Retrieved 7 August 2012.

[3] DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year

[4] ttp://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

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