Malatya (electoral district)

Malatya
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Malatya shown within Turkey
Province	Malatya
Electorate	503,323
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	6 Historical 7 (1995-2011) 6 (1961-1995) 9 (1957-1961) 12 (1954-1957)
MPs	List Mahmut Mücahit Fındıklı AKP Mustafa Şahin AKP Öznur Çalık AKP Hüseyin Cemal Akın AKP Ömer Faruk Öz AKP Veli Ağbaba CHP
Turnout at last election	87.11%
Representation
AKP	5 / 6
CHP	1 / 6
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Malatya is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects six 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 Malatya's seat allocation fell to six, having been at seven since 1995.

MPs for Malatya, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
1		Recai Kutan FP		Ahmet Münir Erkal AK Party		Mahmut Mücahit Fındıklı AK Party				Taha Özhan AK Party
2		Oğuzhan Asiltürk FP		Fuat Ölmeztoprak AK Party				Mustafa Şahin AK Party
3		Yaşar Canbay FP		Ali Osman Başkurt AK Party		Öznur Çalık AK Party
4		Miraç Akdoğan Anavatan		Miraç Akdoğan AK Party		Mehmet Şahin AK Party		Hüseyin Cemal Akın AK Party		Nurettin Yaşar AK Party
5		Basri Coşkun MHP		Süleyman Sarıbaş AK Party		Ömer Faruk Öz AK Party				Bülent Tüfenkci AK Party
6		Namık Hakan Durhan MHP		Ferit Mevlüt Aslanoğlu CHP				Veli Ağbaba CHP
7		Tevfik Ahmet Özal[1] Independent / Anavatan		Muharrem Kılıç CHP		İhsan Koca AK Party	No seat

General elections

June 2015

General Election June 2015: Malatya
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CHP	Party list[2] 1. Veli Ağbaba 2. Hulusi Porgalı 3. Berna Karadaş 4. Memba Kuşçu 5. Yusuf Sürücü 6. Ethem Körükmez
Total votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout

2011

Unelected candidates in small text.

Turkish general election, 2011: Malatya[3]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	AKP	Mahmut Mücahit Fındıklı, Mustafa Şahin, Öznur Çalık, Hüseyin Cemal Akın, Ömer Faruk Öz	294,645	67.99
	CHP	Veli Ağbaba	85,646	19.76
	MHP	None elected	35,293	8.14
	Independent	None elected	5474	1.26
	HAS Party	None elected	4120	0.95	N/A
	Felicity	None elected	3301	0.76
	BBP	None elected	1980	0.46
	Democrat	None elected	1378	0.32
	Nation	None elected	415	0.10
	Democratic Left	None elected	348	0.08	[4]
	Turkish Communists	None elected	304	0.07
	DYP	None elected	291	0.07
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	182	0.04
	HEPAR	None elected	0
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	0
	Labour	None elected	0
Turnout			433,377	87.11

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Malatya[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AKP	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	285,388	70.27
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	99,113	24.40
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	21,633	5.33
Total votes			406,134	100.00
Rejected ballots			6,278	1.52
Turnout			412,412	78.16
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

1. Ran as an independent. Joined Anavatan in June 2002, shortly before the next election.
2. http://www.radikal.com.tr/politika/chpnin_malatyada_yaptigi_on_secimin_sonucu_belli_oldu-1308572
3. Turkish electoral commission
4. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
5. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

Coordinates: 38°30′N 38°00′E / 38.500°N 38.000°E