Rize 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.
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, Rize's seat allocation has oscillated between three and four seats over the last two decades.
Rize was the district from which former prime minister Mesut Yılmaz was elected, first for his Anavatan and later as an independent.
| MPs for Rize, 1999 onwards | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat | ||||||||||||||||||
| MP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Mesut Yılmaz Motherland | width=1px style="background-color: " | Abdülkadir Kart AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Mesut Yılmaz Independent | width=1px style="background-color: " | Hayati Yazıcı AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Hikmet Ayar AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | |||||||
| MP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Ahmet Kabil Motherland | width=1px style="background-color: " | İlyas Çakır AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Bayram Ali Bayramoğlu AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Hasan Karal AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | |||||||||
| MP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Mehmet Bekaroğlu Virtue | width=1px style="background-color: " | İmdat Sütlüoğlu AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Lütfi Çırakoğlu AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Nusret Bayraktar AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Osman Aşkın Bak AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | |||||||
| Party | Votes | % | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 131,168 | |||||||
| CHP | Republican People's Party | 37,110 | |||||||
| MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 15,870 | |||||||
| SP | Felicity Party | 6,798 | |||||||
| Other | 5,526 | ||||||||
| Total | 196,472 | ||||||||
| Turnout | 82.36 | ||||||||
| source: YSK | |||||||||
| Party | Votes | % | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 152,923 | |||||||
| CHP | Republican People's Party | 29,970 | |||||||
| MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 10,815 | |||||||
| SP | Felicity Party | 2,997 | |||||||
| Other | 4,829 | ||||||||
| Total | 201,534 | ||||||||
| Turnout | 84.02 | ||||||||
| source: YSK | |||||||||
| Party | Votes | % | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 139,948 | |||||||
| CHP | Republican People's Party | 27,800 | |||||||
| MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 26,907 | |||||||
| IYI | Good Party | 13,088 | |||||||
| SP | Felicity Party | 4,096 | |||||||
| Other | 5,768 | ||||||||
| Total | 217,507 | ||||||||
| Turnout | 88.02 | ||||||||
| source: YSK | |||||||||