Çanakkale (electoral district)

Çanakkale
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Çanakkale shown within Turkey
Province Çanakkale
Electorate 366,267
Current electoral district
Created 1923
Seats 4
Turnout at last election 91.00%[1]
AKP
2 / 4
CHP
2 / 4

Çanakkale is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects four 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. Çanakkale has consistently elected four MPs since 1999.

MPs for Çanakkale, 2002 onwards[2][3][4][5]
Election 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament) Nov 2015 (26th parliament)
MP Mehmet Daniş
AK Party
Bülent Turan
AK Party
MP İbrahim Köşdere
AK Party
Müjdat Kuşku
AK Party
İsmail Kaşdemir
AK Party
İbrahim Kürşat Tuna
MHP
Ayhan Gider
AK Party
MP Ahmet Küçük
CHP
Ali Sarıbaş
CHP
Bülent Öz
CHP
MP İsmail Özay
CHP
Mustafa Kemal Cengiz
MHP
Mustafa Serder Soydan
CHP
Muharrem Erkek
CHP

General elections

2015

General Election 2011: Çanakkale[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AKP
ANAPAR
BTP
CHP
Democrat
Democratic Left
DYP
HAK-PAR
HDP
HKP
Communist
Liberal Democrat
Centre
MHP
Nation
National Alliance
TURK Party
Patriotic
Homeland
Total votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout

2011

General Election 2011: Çanakkale[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AKP 136,367 41.57 Increase6.22
CHP 129,445 39.46 Increase13.78
MHP 47,897 14.60 Decrease6.07
Democrat 3,936 1.20 Decrease6.29
Labour 1,711 0.52 Increase0.11
Felicity 1,586 0.48 Decrease0.45
HAS Party 1,527 0.47 Increase0.47
HEPAR 1,261 0.38 Increase0.38
DYP 1,079 0.33 Increase0.33
Democratic Left 1,015 0.31 N/A
BBP 740 0.23 Increase0.23
Turkish Communists 439 0.13 Decrease0.07
Nationalist Conservative 331 0.10 Increase0.10
Nation 323 0.10 Increase0.10
Independent 207 0.06 Decrease0.08
Liberal Democrat 192 0.06 Increase0.06
Total votes 328,056 100.00
Rejected ballots 5,261 1.58 Increase0.50
Turnout 333,317 91.00 Increase0.06

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Çanakkale[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 176,707 55.37
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 133,708 41.90
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 8,718 2.73
Total votes 319,133 100.00
Rejected ballots 5,634 1.73
Turnout 324,767 83.88
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

Coordinates: 37°50′N 34°45′E / 37.833°N 34.750°E / 37.833; 34.750

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