Kocaeli (electoral district)

Kocaeli
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Kocaeli shown within Turkey
Province	Kocaeli
Electorate	1,096,593
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	11 Historical 9 (2002-2011) 10 (1999-2002) 9 (1995-1999) 7 (1987-1995) 5 (1973-1987) 4 (1969-1973) 5 (1961-1969) 6 (1957-1961) 12 (1954-1957)
MPs	List Nihat Ergün Ak Parti Fikri Işık Ak Parti Azize Sibel Gönül Ak Parti Muzaffer Baştopçu Ak Parti Zeki Aygün Ak Parti İlyas Şeker Ak Parti Mehmet Ali Okur Ak Parti Hurşit Güneş CHP Mehmet Hilal Kaplan CHP Haydar Akar CHP Lütfü Türkkan MHP
Turnout at last election	89.16%
Representation
AKP	6 / 11
CHP	3 / 11
MHP	1 / 11
HDP	1 / 11
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Kocaeli is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects fourteen 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. At the last election Kocaeli's seat allocation increased to eleven, having generally increased from a low of 4 MPs in 1969.

MPs for Kocaeli, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
1		Meral Akşener DYP		Nihat Ergün AK Party						Cemalettin Kaflı AK Party
2		Mehmet Batuk FP		Muzaffer Baştopçu AK Party						Mehmet Akif Yılmaz AK Party
3		Vecdi Gönül FP		Vecdi Gönül AK Party		Azize Sibel Gönül AK Party				Radiye Sezer Katırcıoğlu AK Party
4		Osman Pepe FP		Osman Pepe AK Party				İlyas Şeker AK Party
5		Sefer Ekşi Anavatan		Nevzat Doğan AK Party		Fikri Işık AK Party
6		Cumali Durmuş MHP		Eyüp Ayar AK Party				Zeki Aygün AK Party
7		Kemal Köse MHP		İzzet Çetin CHP		Cumali Durmuş MHP		Mustafa Sait Gönen MHP		Saffet Sancaklı MHP
8		Ahmet Arkan DSP		Mehmet Sefa Sirmen CHP		Hikmet Erenkaya CHP		Hurşit Güneş CHP		Tahsin Tarhan CHP
9		Halil Çalık DSP		Salih Gün CHP		Mehmet Cevdet Selvi CHP		Mehmet Hilal Kaplan CHP		Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet CHP
10		Muhammet Turhan İmamoğlu DSP	No seat					Haydar Akar CHP
11	No seat							Mehmet Ali Okur AK Party		Ali Haydar Konca HDP

General elections

2011

Unelected candidates in small text.

Turkish general election, 2011: Kocaeli[1]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	AKP	Nihat Ergün, Fikri Işık, Azize Sibel Gönül, Muzaffer Baştopçu, Zeki Aygün, İlyas Şeker, Mehmet Ali Okur	504,535	52.71
	CHP	Hurşit Güneş, Mehmet Hilal Kaplan, Haydar Akar	235,770	24.63
	MHP	Lütfü Türkkan	114,304	11.94
	Felicity	None elected	41,870	4.37
	Independent	None elected	22,153	2.31
	HAS Party	None elected	14,939	1.56	N/A
	Democrat	None elected	5995	0.63
	BBP	None elected	5615	0.59
	HEPAR	None elected	3796	0.40
	Democratic Left	None elected	2414	0.25	[2]
	DYP	None elected	1859	0.19
	Nation	None elected	1716	0.18
	Turkish Communists	None elected	1452	0.15
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	759	0.08
	Labour	None elected	0
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	0
Turnout			1,096,593	89.16

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Kocaeli[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AKP	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	521,489	58.54
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	320,516	35.98
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	48,893	5.49
Total votes			890,898	100.00
Rejected ballots			21,952	2.40
Turnout			912,850	77.02
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

1. Turkish electoral commission
2. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
3. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

Coordinates: 40°55′N 29°55′E / 40.917°N 29.917°E