Şanlıurfa (electoral district) explained

Şanlıurfa is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects twelve 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. Şanlıurfa is one of the largest in southeast Turkey, sending twelve members to Ankara.

The overwhelming majority of members are from the governing party. Şanlıurfa is a district where the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) ran independent candidates in an attempt to overcome the 10 percent national electoral threshold. One such independent candidates was elected here in 2011 and has joined the BDP; another independent candidate was also elected.

MPs for Şanlıurfa, 1999 onwards
Seat
1	width=1px style="background-color: "		Yahya Akman Virtue	width=1px style="background-color: "		Yahya Akman AK Party					width=1px style="background-color: "		Nureddin Nebati AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "
2	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Fevzi Şıhanlıoğlu DYP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mahmut Kaplan AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Abdulkadir Emin Önen AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: "		Mazhar Bağlı AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "
3	width=1px style="background-color: "		Zülfikar İzol Virtue	width=1px style="background-color: "		Zülfikar İzol AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: "		Abdülkerim Gök AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Hamide Sürücü AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "
4	width=1px style="background-color: "		Sedat Edip Bucak DYP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Abdurrahman Müfit Yetkin AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Akyürek AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "
5	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Yalçınkaya DYP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Atılla Maraş AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Seyit Eyyüpoğlu^[1] Independent / AK Party					width=1px style="background-color: "
6	width=1px style="background-color: "		Necmettin Cevheri DYP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Faruk Bayrak AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ramazan Başak AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Halil Özcan AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: "
7	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ahmet Karavar Virtue	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Özlek AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Sabahttin Cevheri AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: "
8	width=1px style="background-color: "		Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar Motherland	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Vedat Melik CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mahmut Kaçar AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Dilek Öcalan HDP	width=1px style="background-color: "
9	width=1px style="background-color: "		Muzaffer Çakmaklı MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mahmut Yıldız CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mustafa Kuş AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Zeynep Armağan Uslu AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Osman Baydemir HDP	width=1px style="background-color: "
10	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mustafa Niyazi Yanmaz Virtue	width=1px style="background-color: "		Sabahattin Cevheri^[2] Independent	width=1px style="background-color: "		Çağla Aktemur Özyavuz AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Faruk Çelik AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ziya Çalışkan HDP	width=1px style="background-color: "
11	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Güneş Motherland	width=1px style="background-color: "		Turan Tüysüz^[3] CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		İbrahim Binici^[4] Independent (DTP/BDP)			width=1px style="background-color: "		Leyla Güven HDP	width=1px style="background-color: "
12	No seat						width=1px style="background-color: "		İbrahim Ayhan^[5] Independent (BDP) / HDP			width=1px style="background-color: "

General elections

June 2015

		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	356,537
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	293,841
	CHP	Republican People's Party	31,273
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	42,479
		Other	39,250
Total			763,380
Turnout			80.21
source: YSK

November 2015

		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	519,079
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	228,807
	CHP	Republican People's Party	21,686
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	22,086
		Other	12,228
Total			803,885
Turnout			83,77
source: YSK

2018

		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	440,085
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	247,256
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	77,479
	CHP	Republican People's Party	28,880
	IYI	Good Party	14,965
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	13,495
	SP	Felicity Party	10,913
		Other	10,788
Total			843,861
Turnout			81.48
source: YSK

2023

		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	424.999
	YSGP	Party of Greens and the Left Future	245.500
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	93.267
	CHP	Republican People's Party	79.539
		Independent	51.399
	IYI	Good Party	45.097
	YRP	New Welfare Party	28.949
		Other	20.404
Total			999.527
Turnout			81.82%
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

References

37.25°N 39°W

Notes and References

1. Joined the AK Party in 2010.
2. Joined the AK Party in 2003.
3. Left his party and joined Motherland in 2005.
4. Ran in 2007 as an independent candidate and joined the DTP afted being elected. Switched to the BDP after the DTP's closure. Ran as an independent candidate again in 2011 and rejointed the BDP afted being elected.
5. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.