Batman (electoral district)

Batman is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects four 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.

Batman
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Batman highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Batman shown within Turkey
ProvinceBatman
Electorate270,392
Current electoral district
Created1991
Seats5
Turnout at last election83.82%[1]
DEM
3 / 5
AK Party
1 / 5
Free Cause Party
1 / 5

Members edit

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. Batman became an electoral district for the 1991 general election and has continuously elected four MPs.

MPs for Batman, 2002 onwards[2][3][4][5]
Election 2002 (22nd Parliament) 2007 (23rd Parliament) 2011 (24th Parliament) June 2015 (25th Parliament) November 2015 (26th Parliament)
MP Afif Demirkıran
AK Party
Mehmet Emin Ekmen
AK Party
Ziver Özdemir
AK Party
Ataullah Hamidi
AK Party
MP Ahmet İnal
AK Party
Mehmet Şimşek
AK Party
Ali Atalan
HDP
Mehmet Ali Aslan
HDP
MP Mehmet Ali Suçin
AK Party
Ayla Akat Ata
Independent
Ayla Akat Ata

HDP

Saadet Becerekli
HDP
MP Mehmet Nezir Nasıroğlu
CHP
Bengi Yıldız
Independent
Bengi Yıldız

HDP

Ayşe Acar Başaran
HDP

General elections edit

2011 edit

2011 general election: Batman[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent
2 elected                               0
  • Bengi Yıldız  Y
    Ayla Akat Ata  Y
113,378 51.48  12.06
AK Party
2 elected                               0
  • 1. Mehmet Şimşek  Y
    2. Ziver Özdemir  Y
    3. Ayhan İsen  N
    4. Mustafa Demir  N
81,778 37.13  9.28
CHP
None elected
  • 1. Faris Özdemir  N
    2. Mehmet Can Avcı  N
    3. Mehmet İhsan Erman  N
    4. Vehbi Ağaya  N
14,754 6.70  2.79
Büyük Birlik
None elected
  • 1. Recep Er  N
    2. Ecevit Bayralı  N
    3. Medeni Orhan  N
    4. Şahabettin Gün  N
3,282 1.49  1.49
SAADET
None elected
  • 1. Salih Sevim  N
    2. Ahmet Çiftçi  N
    3. Mustafa Yıldız  N
    4. İbrahim Güneş  N
2,156 0.98  0.94
MHP
None elected
  • 1. İsa Boran  N
    2. Nihat Ercan  N
    3. Mehmet Aktaş  N
    4. Mehmet Ali Acar  N
1,281 0.58  0.35
DP
None elected
  • 1. Murat Şentürk  N
    2. Esen Sarı  N
    3. Ahmet Güneş  N
    4. Mehmet Ramazan Kebabcılar  N
930 0.42  5.34
HAS Party
None elected
  • 1. Osman Bağaç  N
    2. Kenan Özoğul  N
    3. Özlem Şahin Ermiş  N
    4. Mehmet Metin Emen  N
873 0.40  0.40
DSP
None elected
  • 1. Kadri Yaman  N
    2. Üzeyir Çelik  N
    3. Mehmet Tahir Türk  N
    4. Yusuf Yalçın  N
720 0.33 N/A
Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today)
None elected
  • 1. Oya Sönmez  N
    2. Başak Yaman  N
    3. Evrim Kaya  N
    4. Cüneyt Arslan  N
460 0.21  0.12
DYP
None elected
  • 1. Abdulvehap Uruk  N
    2. Hanifi Taşdemir  N
    3. Osman Cengiz  N
    4. Mahşuk Özcan  N
188 0.09  0.09
Liberal Democrat
None elected
  • 1. Aziz Polat  N
    2. Mehmet Emin Yıldırım  N
    3. Rifat Aksoy  N
    4. Saadet Polat  N
167 0.08  0.07
MP
None elected
  • 1. Mehmet Göktekin  N
    2. Nazmi Filiz  N
    3. İbrahim Çelik  N
    4. Nurcan Has  N
155 0.07  0.07
Nationalist Conservative
None elected
  • 1. Veysel Özel  N
    2. Orhan Yıldırım  N
    3. Nevzat Demir  N
    4. Zeki Sürgün  N
112 0.05  0.05
HEPAR No candidates 0 0.00  0.00
Labour No candidates 0 0.00  0.00
Total votes 220,234 100.00
Rejected ballots 6,774 2.99  1.37
Turnout 226,642 83.82  8.08
Independent gain from AK Party
Majority
31,600 14.35  21.34

June 2015 edit

Abbr. Party Votes %
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 191,310 72.6%
AKP Justice and Development Party 47,921 18.2%
HÜDA-PAR Free Cause Party 14,551 5.5%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 2,752 1%
CHP Republican People's Party 2,083 0.8%
Other 4,986 1.9%
Total 263,604
Turnout 90.25
source: YSK

November 2015 edit

Abbr. Party Votes %
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 177,129 68.1%
AKP Justice and Development Party 73,775 28.4%
CHP Republican People's Party 3,101 1.2%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 1,654 0.6%
Other 4,254 1.6%
Total 259,913
Turnout 85.84
source: YSK

2018 edit

Abbr. Party Votes %
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 180,318 63.5%
AKP Justice and Development Party 67,789 23.9%
HÜDA-PAR Free Cause Party 15,998 5.6%
SP Felicity Party 8,971 3.2%
CHP Republican People's Party 3,740 1.3%
IYI Good Party 3,127 1.1%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 2,833 1%
Other 1,284 0.5%
Total 284,060
Turnout 85.67
source: YSK

Presidential elections edit

2014 edit

2014 presidential election: Batman[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 134,370 60.00
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 85,153 38.02
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 4,424 1.98
Total votes 223,947 100.00
Rejected ballots 3,799 1.67
Turnout 227,746 75.71
Selahattin Demirtaş win

References edit

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