Siirt 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. Siirt's seat allocation has been remained unchanged at three seats since 1991.
Siirt is distinctive as being the site of a by-election, a rarity in Turkish politics, which in 2003 saw Recep Tayyip Erdoğan elected to parliament after a law barring candidates with criminal convictions from standing was amended. Erdoğan subsequently became prime minister.
More recently, Siirt was 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 independent candidate was elected here in 2011 and has since joined the BDP.
| MPs for Siirt, 1999 onwards | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Nizamettin Sevgili Motherland | width=1px style="background-color: " | Mervan Gül AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Afif Demirkıran AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Yasin Aktay AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||||
| MP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Takiddin Yarayan DYP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Ekrem Bilek CHP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Öner Ergenç AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Mehmet Yılmaz Helvacıoğlu AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Osman Ören AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Hatice Seviptekin HDP | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||
| MP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Ahmet Nurettin Aydın FP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Fadıl Akgündüz Independent | width=1px style="background-color: " | Öner Gülyeşil AK Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Osman Özçelik Independent | width=1px style="background-color: " | Gültan Kışanak Independent | width=1px style="background-color: " | Kadri Yıldırım HDP | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||
This election was successfully challenged by the AK Party arguing that a boycott by in villagers in Doğan, near Pervari in Siirt, and the absence of an electoral board for the region rendered the vote invalid.[1] A fresh ballot was held on 9 March 2003.
| Party | Votes | % | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 93,518 | |||||||
| AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 40,137 | |||||||
| MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 3,389 | |||||||
| CHP | Republican People's Party | 1,735 | |||||||
| Other | 3,438 | ||||||||
| Total | 142,217 | ||||||||
| Turnout | 86.72 | ||||||||
| source: YSK | |||||||||
| Party | Votes | % | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 81,702 | |||||||
| AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 51,409 | |||||||
| CHP | Republican People's Party | 2,314 | |||||||
| MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 2,104 | |||||||
| Other | 2,670 | ||||||||
| Total | 140,199 | ||||||||
| Turnout | 85.53 | ||||||||
| source: YSK | |||||||||
| Party | Votes | % | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 76,225 | |||||||
| AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 55,890 | |||||||
| MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 4,905 | |||||||
| IYI | Good Party | 2,181 | |||||||
| CHP | Republican People's Party | 2,990 | |||||||
| HÜDA-PAR | Free Cause Party | 1,776 | |||||||
| SP | Felicity Party | 1,355 | |||||||
| Other | 945 | ||||||||
| Total | 146,267 | ||||||||
| Turnout | 84.26 | ||||||||
| source: YSK | |||||||||
| Party | Votes | % | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSGP | Party of Greens and the Left Future | 77.267 | |||||||
| AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 59.553 | |||||||
| CHP | Republican People's Party | 12.843 | |||||||
| MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 6.462 | |||||||
| IYI | Good Party | 2.482 | |||||||
| YRP | New Welfare Party | 1.958 | |||||||
| Independent | 1.268 | ||||||||
| Other | 3.891 | ||||||||
| Total | 168.261 | ||||||||
| Turnout | %83,36 | ||||||||
| source: YSK | |||||||||