Kırklareli (electoral district)

Kırklareli
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Kırklareli shown within Turkey
Province Kırklareli
Electorate 254,455
Current electoral district
Created 1920
Seats

3

MPs
Turnout at last election 90.78%
CHP
2 / 3
AKP
1 / 3

Kırklareli 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. Kırklareli's seat allocation has been three seats since 1999.

MPs for Kırklareli, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
1 Necdet Tekin
DSP
Mehmet Siyam Kesimoğlu
CHP
Tansel Barış
CHP
Mehmet Siyam Kesimoğlu
CHP
Türabi Kayan
CHP
2 Nural Karagöz
DSP
Yavuz Altınorak
CHP
Turgut Dibek
CHP
Vecdi Gündoğdu
CHP
3 Cemal Özbilen
Anavatan
Ahmet Gökhan Sarıçam
AK Party
Şenol Gürşan
AK Party
Hamdi Irmak
AK Party

General elections

June 2015

General Election June 2015: Kırklareli
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CHP 116,871 49.40
AKP 56,062 23.70
MHP 49,981 21.13
ANAPAR
Independent
BTP
Democrat
Democratic Left
DYP
HAK-PAR
HAP
HDP
HKP
Communist
Liberal Democrat
Centre
Nation
National Alliance
TURK Party
Patriotic
Homeland
Total votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout
CHP hold
Majority

2011

General Election 2011: Kırklareli[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CHP 119,598 52.53 Increase12.41
AKP 62,445 27.43 Increase7.26
MHP 37,638 16.53 Increase0.66
Democrat 1,708 0.75 Decrease8.25
Democratic Left 928 0.41 N/A[3]
Felicity 880 0.39 Decrease0.39
Labour 854 0.38 Increase0.23
HEPAR 839 0.37 Increase0.38
HAS Party 835 0.37 Increase0.37
DYP 511 0.22 Increase0.22
Independent 368 0.16 Decrease0.03
BBP 293 0.13 Increase0.13
Turkish Communists 263 0.12 Decrease0.01
Nationalist Conservative 205 0.09 Increase0.09
Nation 202 0.09 Increase0.09
Liberal Democrat 106 0.05 Decrease0.11
Total votes 227,673 100.00
Rejected ballots 4,006 1.76 Increase0.88
Turnout 230,993 90.78 Increase0.29
CHP hold
Majority
57,153 25.10 Increase5.32

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Kırklareli[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 144,558 67.95
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 63,328 29.77
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 4,861 2.28
Total votes 212,747 100.00
Rejected ballots 3,226 1.49
Turnout 215,973 82.54
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

Coordinates: 41°40′N 27°30′E / 41.667°N 27.500°E / 41.667; 27.500

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