Mersin (electoral district) explained

Mersin is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eleven 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. Mersin elected 12 members until the most recent election in 2011, when the number of seats was dropped to eleven.

MPs for Mersin, 1999 onwards
Seat
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Edip Özgenç^[1] DSP / YTP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ali Oksal CHP			width=1px style="background-color: "		Aytuğ Atıcı CHP			width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Akif Serin DSP / YTP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ersoy Bulut^[2] CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Vahap Seçer CHP			width=1px style="background-color: "		Hüseyin Çamak CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mustafa İstemihan Talay DSP / YTP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Hüseyin Güler^[3] CHP / Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: "		İsa Gök CHP			width=1px style="background-color: "		Durmuş Fikri Sağlar CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Yalçın Kaya MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Hüseyin Özcan^[4] CHP / Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ali Rıza Öztürk CHP			width=1px style="background-color: "		Baki Şimşek MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Hidayet Kılınç MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mustafa Özyürek CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Şandır MHP			width=1px style="background-color: "		Oktay Öztürk MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Cahit Tekelioğlu MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Şefik Zengin CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Akif Akkuş MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ali Öz MHP			width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Enis Öksüz^[5] MHP / BBP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Vahit Çekmez CHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Kadir Ural MHP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ertuğrul Kürkçü^[6] Independent (BDP)	width=1px style="background-color: "		Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat HDP	width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ali Er^[7] Motherland / AK Party					width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Çilem Öz HDP	width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Rüştü Kazım Yücelen Motherland	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ömer İnan AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: "		Çiğdem Münevver Ökten AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mustafa Muhammet Gültak AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Turhan Güven DYP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Saffet Benli AK Party / Motherland	width=1px style="background-color: "		Kürşad Tüzmen AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ahmet Tevfik Uzun AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Yılmaz Tezcan AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ayfer Yılmaz DYP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mustafa Eyiceoğlu AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Mehmet Zafer Üskül AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Nebi Bozkur AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Muhsin Kızılkaya AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "
MP	width=1px style="background-color: "		Ali Güngör^[8] MHP / Independent	width=1px style="background-color: "		Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: "		Kadir Ural MHP	Seat abolished

General elections

June 2015

		Party	Votes	%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	298,278
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	266,760
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	255,705
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	184,018
	SP	Felicity Party	10,603
		Other	15,267
Total			1,030,631
Turnout			86.62
source: YSK

November 2015

		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	325,723
	CHP	Republican People's Party	319,630
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	224,219
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	156,873
	SP	Felicity Party	3,765
		Other	18,506
Total			1,048,716
Turnout			87.41
source: YSK

2018

		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	302,200
	CHP	Republican People's Party	296,514
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	186,663
	IYI	Good Party	151,924
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	139,581
	SP	Felicity Party	7,515
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	4,486
		Other	13,675
Total			1,102,558
Turnout			88.45
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

References

36.75°N 34°W

Notes and References

1. Left the DSP in 2001 to join the newly founded YTP.
2. Left his party in 2005 and briefly joined the SHP before becoming independent once again.
3. Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2004.
4. Left his party and crossed over to Motherland in 2005.
5. Served as transport minister before leaving his party in 2002 and joining the BBP.
6. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
7. Ali Er left the Motherland Party in August 2002 to join the AK Party, on whose ticket he ran in 2002.
8. Expelled from his party in 2000; subsequently served as an independent.