Kars (electoral district) explained

Kars
Entity:	Turkey
Map:	Kars in Turkey.svg
Created:	1920
Voters:	185.196
Turnout:	79.56%
Mps:	Gülüstan Kılıç Koçyiğit DEM Party Adem Çalkin AK Party İnan Akgün Alp CHP
Seats:	3
Historical Seats:	4 (1995-1999) 5 (1991-1995) 6 (1983-1991) 8 (1973-1983) 9 (1961-1973) 7 (1961-1969) 12 (1957-1961) 10 (1954-1957)
Party1:	Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party
Party1 Seats:	1
Party2:	Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
Party2 Seats:	1
Party3:	Republican People's Party (Turkey)
Party3 Seats:	1

Kars is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects three 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. As a small electoral district, Kars's seat allocation has always been low. It was last reduced to three MPs in 1999.

MPs for Kars, 1999 onwards
Seat
1	width=1px style="background-color: "		İlhan Aküzüm Motherland	width=1px style="background-color: "		Zeki Karabayır AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: "		Ahmet Arslan AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Uçum AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ahmet Arslan AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: "
2	width=1px style="background-color: "		Çetin Bilgir DSP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Yusuf Selahattin Beyribey AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mahmut Esat Güven AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Yunus Kılıç AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ayhan Bilgen HDP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Yusuf Selahattin Beyribey AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Yunus Kılıç AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "
3	width=1px style="background-color: "		Arslan Aydar MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Selami Yiğit CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Gürcan Dağdaş MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mülkiye Birtane^[1] Independent (BDP)	width=1px style="background-color: "		Şafak Özanli HDP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ayhan Bilgen HDP			width=1px style="background-color: "

General elections

June 2015

		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	64,315
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	38,950
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	20,507
	CHP	Republican People's Party	17,485
		Other	4,930
Total			146,187
Turnout			81.25
source: YSK

November 2015

		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	50,267
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	48,625
	CHP	Republican People's Party	21,315
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	17,579
		Other	3,275
Total			141,061
Turnout			78.57
source: YSK

2018

		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	52,791
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	46,285
	CHP	Republican People's Party	20,207
	IYI	Good Party	10,597
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	10,145
		Other	3,026
Total			143,051
Turnout			81.13
source: YSK

2023

		Party	Votes	%
	YSGP	Party of Greens and the Left Future	40.710
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	37.662
	CHP	Republican People's Party	24.090
	IYI	Good Party	21.728
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	14.211
		Other	7.683
Total			147.343
Turnout			79.56%
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

References

40.4167°N 48°W

Notes and References

1. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.