Kahramanmaraş (electoral district)

Kahramanmaraş is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eight 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.

Kahramanmaraş
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Kahramanmaraş highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Kahramanmaraş shown within Turkey
ProvinceKahramanmaraş
Electorate656,579
Current electoral district
Created1923
Seats8
Historical
  • 9 (1999–2002)
    8 (1995–1999)
    7 (1987–1995)
    6 (1983–1987)
    7 (1973–1983)
    6 (1961–1973)
    9 (1957–1961)
    7 (1954–1957)
MPs
List
Turnout at last election86.72%
AK Party
6 / 8
MHP
2 / 8

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. Kahramanmaraş's seat allocation has always been relatively consistent, hovering between six and nine MPs since 1954.

MPs for Kahramanmaraş, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st Parliament) 2002 (22nd Parliament) 2007 (23rd Parliament) 2011 (24th Parliament) June 2015 (25th Parliament)
1 Mustafa Kamalak
FP
Nevzat Pakdil
AK Party
Nursel Reyhanlıoğlu
AK Party
2 Avni Doğan
FP
Avni Doğan
AK Party
Mahir Ünal
AK Party
3 Ali Sezal
FP
Ali Sezal
AK Party
Cafer Tatlıbal
AK Party
Yıldırım Mehmet Ramazanoğlu
AK Party
Mehmet Uğur Dilipak
AK Party
4 Mehmet Sağlam
DYP
Hanefi Mahçiçek
AK Party
Mehmet Sağlam
AK Party
Veysi Kaynak
AK Party
5 Metin Kocabaş
DYP
Mehmet Ali Bulut
AK Party
Veysi Kaynak
AK Party
Sevde Bayazıt Kaçar
AK Party
6 Edip Özbaş
MHP
Fatih Arıkan
AK Party
Sıtkı Güvenç
AK Party
Mehmet İlker Çitil
AK Party
7 Mehmet Kaya
MHP
Mehmet Parlakyiğit
CHP
Durdu Özbolat
CHP
Fahrettin Oğuz Tor
MHP
8 Nevzat Taner
MHP
Nevzat Taner
MHP
Nevzat Taner
MHP
Mesut Dedeoğlu
MHP
Sefer Aycan
MHP
9 Ali Doğan
Anavatan
No seat

General elections edit

2011 edit

2011 general election: Kahramanmaraş[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AK Party
6 elected                               0
  • 1. Mehmet Sağlam  Y
    2. Nevzat Pakdil  Y
    3. Mahir Ünal  Y
    4. Yıldırım Mehmet Ramazanoğlu  Y
    5. Sevde Bayazıt Kaçar  Y
    6. Sıtkı Güvenç  Y
    7. Hamdi Bülent Eken  N
    8. İdris Tezcan  N
391,986 69.57  1.57
MHP
1 elected                               0
  • 1. Mesut Dedeoğlu  Y
    2. Fahrettin Oğuz Tor  N
    3. Ejder Oruç  N
    4. Şule Arıkan  N
    5. Aydoğan Büyüköz  N
    6. Kamil Koca  N
    7. Hüseyin Cahit Gökşen  N
    8. Necati Karatuluk  N
73,151 12.98  0.59
CHP
1 elected                               0
  • 1. Durdu Özbolat  Y
    2. Kemal Sağ  N
    3. Duran Özdal  N
    4. Murat Kapan  N
    5. Yaşar Güngör  N
    6. Ramazan Burhan  N
    7. Türkan Özbek  N
    8. Mehmet Okuç  N
64,584 11.46  1.63
Büyük Birlik
None elected
  • 1. Remzi Çayır  N
    2. Nedat Türk  N
    3. Elife Özgül  N
    4. Ali Alagöz  N
    5. Musa Göztaş  N
    6. Feridun Özdemir  N
    7. Bülent Kaya  N
    8. Fatma Kuşçu  N
11,103 1.97  1.97
SAADET
None elected
  • 1. Cuma Tahiroğlu  N
    2. Ömer Polat  N
    3. Mehmet Tahir Gören  N
    4. Emin Odabaşı  N
    5. Sami Polat  N
    6. Veli Kabaağaç  N
    7. Ali Doruk  N
    8. Talip Gülbay  N
7,374 1.31  0.15
HAS Party
None elected
  • 1. Mustafa Kabalcı  N
    2. Niyazi Güney  N
    3. Ali Fahri Şirikçi  N
    4. Fatih Polat  N
    5. Abdullah Genç  N
    6. Bünyamin Yumrukaya  N
    7. Hacı İbrahim Pıçak  N
    8. Kenan Akkurt  N
5,239 0.93  0.93
Independent
None elected
  • Mustafa Mamaklı  N
3,031 0.54  0.81
DP
None elected
  • 1. Ramazan Deveci  N
    2. Zühtü Kazancı  N
    3. Cahit Güçlü  N
    4. Ali Demirci  N
    5. Ali Ceyhan  N
    6. Ejder Nafiz Özdemir  N
    7. Güller Telek  N
    8. Celal Bağcı  N
2,941 0.52  3.90
DYP
None elected
  • 1. İdris Akkaya  N
    2. İsmail Nacar  N
    3. Mehmet Fatih Eken  N
    4. Şaban Solak  N
    5. Murat Erdoğan  N
    6. Mehmet Ali Pekemen  N
    7. Durdu Çağlar  N
    8. İlhan Yıldız  N
850 0.15  0.15
HEPAR
None elected
  • 1. Ahmet Gebel  N
    2. Vedat Üçgöz  N
    3. Hakan Torun  N
    4. Harun Akkurt  N
    5. İbrahim Bayazıt  N
    6. Asuman Yılmaz  N
    7. Gürkan Emlik  N
    8. Abdulkadir Ceren  N
769 0.14  0.14
DSP
None elected
  • 1. Salman Diliuz  N
    2. Canan Palalı  N
    3. Mesut Şahan  N
    4. Mevlüt Öztütüncü  N
    5. Muzaffer Yıldırım  N
    6. Eyyüp Dalgın  N
    7. Bülent Bulut  N
    8. Hasan Sünbül  N
629 0.11 N/A
Labour
None elected
  • 1. İbrahim Aksoy  N
    2. Battal Bayar  N
    3. Hidayet Kalınlıoğlu  N
    4. Erol Akkuş  N
    5. Ferhat Güzelgün  N
    6. İbrahim Keleş  N
    7. Erkan Seven  N
    8. Hasan Biçiçi  N
578 0.10  0.10
Nationalist Conservative
None elected
  • 1. Ali Akıl  N
    2. Mehmet Bars  N
    3. Şaban Küçükdağlı  N
    4. Burhan Dağ  N
    5. Abdullah Belibağlı  N
    6. Mehmet Çelebi  N
    7. Mustafa Kara  N
    8. Vedat Dişbudak  N
524 0.09  0.09
TKP
None elected
  • 1. Meliha Çiğdem Sarı  N
    2. Sinem Bingöl  N
    3. Hüseyin Özel  N
    4. Samittin Arslan  N
    5. Naciye Karaköçek  N
    6. Emine Devrim Erdoğan  N
    7. Pınar Bilici  N
    8. Zübeyde Gülmez  N
414 0.07  0.18
MP
None elected
  • 1. Sıddık Çakıroğlu  N
    2. Mehmet Ali Kurtulan  N
    3. Ahmet Yontucu  N
    4. Muharrem Seyhan  N
    5. Oktay Özdil  N
    6. Ahmet Emrullah  N
    7. Ülger İncearık  N
    8. Belkıs Çetiner  N
261 0.05  0.05
Liberal Democrat No candidates 0 0.00  0.00
Total votes 563,434 100.00
Rejected ballots 7,797 1.37  0.60
Turnout 569,385 86.72  4.22
AK Party hold
Majority
318,835 56.77  1.16

June 2015 edit

Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 352,949 61%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 115,291 19.9%
CHP Republican People's Party 49,112 8.5%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 29,749 5.1%
SP Felicity Party 21,084 3.6%
Other 10,007 1.7%
Total 578,192
Turnout 84.79
source: YSK

November 2015 edit

Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 431,802 71.8%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 77,745 12.9%
CHP Republican People's Party 57,309 9.5%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 20,453 3.4%
SP Felicity Party 3,840 0.6%
Other 10,341 1.7%
Total 601,490
Turnout 87.08
source: YSK

2018 edit

Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 375,008 57.8%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 105,917 16.3%
IYI Good Party 63,283 9.8%
CHP Republican People's Party 61,433 9.5%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 22,252 3.4%
SP Felicity Party 9,848 1.5%
Other 11,049 1.7%
Total 648,790
Turnout 89.50
source: YSK

Presidential elections edit

2014 edit

2014 presidential election: Kahramanmaraş[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 383,064 71.48
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 129,801 24.22
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 23,009 4.29
Total votes 535,874 100.00
Rejected ballots 9,979 1.83
Turnout 545,853 79.54
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References edit

  1. ^ 2011 Milletvekili Seçimi Kesin Sonuçlar Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "İşte milletvekili kesin aday listeleri". Sabah (in Turkish). 29 April 2011. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  3. ^ 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) [dead link]

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