Samsun (electoral district)

Samsun is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects nine 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.

Samsun
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Samsun shown within Turkey
ProvinceSamsun
Electorate881,023
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats9
MPs
Turnout at last election86.78%
AK Party
5 / 9
CHP
2 / 9
MHP
2 / 9

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. Samsun is a medium-sized constituency currently represented by nine MPs, although this has historically been as high as fourteen.

MPs for Samsun, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Yekta Açıkgöz
DSP		 Suat Kılıç
AK Party		 Ahmet Demircan
AK Party
MP Tarık Cengiz
DSP		 Cemal Yılmaz Demir
AK Party		 Fuat Köktaş
AK Party
MP Şenel Kapıcı
DSP		 Ahmet Yeni
AK Party		 Çiğdem Karaaslan
AK Party
MP Musa Uzunkaya
FP		 Mustafa Demir
AK Party		 Hasan Basri Kurt
AK Party
MP Ahmet Demircan
FP		 Musa Uzunkaya
AK Party		 Birnur Şahinoğlu
AK Party		 Akif Çağatay Kılıç
AK Party
MP Ahmet Aydın
MHP		 Mehmet Kurt
AK Party		 Fatih Öztürk
AK Party		 Tülay Bakır
AK Party		 Hüseyin Edis
MHP
MP Vedat Çınaroğlu
MHP		 Mustafa Çakır
AK Party		 Osman Çakır
MHP		 Cemalettin Şimşek
MHP		 Erhan Usta
MHP
MP Erdoğan Sezgin
DYP		 Ahmet Haluk Koç
CHP		 Kemal Zeybek
CHP
MP Kemal Kabataş
DYP		 İlyas Sezai Önder
CHP		 Suat Binici
CHP		 Ahmet İhsan Kalkavan
CHP		 Hayati Tekin
CHP
MP Mehmet Çakar
Anavatan		 Seat abolished

General elections

2011
2011 Turkish general election: Samsun[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±
AK Party Mustafa Demir, Suat Kılıç, Cemal Yılmaz Demir, Tülay Bakır, Akif Çağatay Kılıç, Ahmet Yeni 462,067 61.50
CHP Ahmet Haluk Koç, Ahmet İhsan Kalkavan 162,718 16.20
MHP Cemalettin Şimşek 84,520 11.25
Felicity None elected 11,968 1.59
Democrat None elected 7619 1.01
HAS Party None elected 7194 0.96 N/A
BBP None elected 5002 0.67
DYP None elected 1933 0.26
DSP None elected 1859 0.25 [2]
HEPAR None elected 1702 0.23
Labour None elected 1526 0.2
TKP None elected 863 0.11
Nationalist Conservative None elected 711 0.09
Independents None elected 648 0.09
Nation None elected 613 0.08
Liberal Democrat None elected 442 0.06
Turnout 543,328 89,24

Presidential elections

2014
Presidential Election 2014: Samsun[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 447,253 65.87
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 222,769 32.81
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 8,954 1.32
Total votes 678,976 100.00
Rejected ballots 14,239 2.05
Turnout 693,215 76.19
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References
  1. High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  2. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  3. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

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