Mersin (electoral district)

Mersin
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Mersin shown within Turkey
Province	Mersin
Electorate	1,137,834
Current electoral district
Created	1923
Seats	11 Historical 12 (1995-2011)
MPs	List Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan AKP Ahmet Tevfik Uzun AKP Nebi Bozkur AKP Çiğdem Münevver Ökten AKP Aytuğ Atıcı CHP Vahap Seçer CHP İsa Gök CHP Ali Rıza Öztürk CHP Mehmet Şandır MHP Ali Öz MHP Ertuğrul Kürkçü BDP
Turnout at last election	87.02%
Representation
CHP	3 / 11
AKP	3 / 11
MHP	3 / 11
HDP	1 / 11
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Mersin is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eleven 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. Mersin elected 12 members until the most recent election in 2011, when the number of seats was dropped to eleven.

MPs for Mersin, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP		Edip Özgenç[1] DSP / YTP		Ali Oksal CHP				Aytuğ Atıcı CHP
MP		Akif Serin[1] DSP / YTP		Ersoy Bulut[2] CHP		Vahap Seçer CHP				Hüseyin Çamak CHP
MP		Mustafa İstemihan Talay[1] DSP / YTP		Hüseyin Güler[3] CHP / Anavatan		İsa Gök CHP				Durmuş Fikri Sağlar CHP
MP		Yalçın Kaya MHP		Hüseyin Özcan[4] CHP / Anavatan		Ali Rıza Öztürk CHP				Baki Şimşek MHP
MP		Hidayet Kılınç MHP		Mustafa Özyürek CHP		Mehmet Şandır MHP				Oktay Öztürk MHP
MP		Cahit Tekelioğlu MHP		Şefik Zengin CHP		Akif Akkuş MHP		Ali Öz MHP
MP		Enis Öksüz[5] MHP / BBP		Vahit Çekmez CHP		Kadir Ural MHP		Ertuğrul Kürkçü[6] Independent (BDP)		Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat HDP
MP		Ali Er[7] Anavatan / AK Party						Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan AK Party		Çilem Öz HDP
MP		Rüştü Kazım Yücelen Anavatan		Ömer İnan AK Party				Çiğdem Münevver Ökten AK Party		Mustafa Muhammet Gültak AK Party
MP		Turhan Güven DYP		Saffet Benli AK Party / Anavatan		Kürşad Tüzmen AK Party		Ahmet Tevfik Uzun AK Party		Yılmaz Tezcan AK Party
MP		Ayfer Yılmaz DYP		Mustafa Eyiceoğlu AK Party		Mehmet Zafer Üskül AK Party		Nebi Bozkur AK Party		Muhsin Kızılkaya AK Party
MP		Ali Güngör[8] MHP / Independent		Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat AK Party		Kadir Ural MHP	Seat abolished

General elections

June 2015

General Election June 2015: Mersin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CHP	Party list 1. TBD by leader 2. Hüseyin Çakmak 3. Fikri Sağlar 4. TBD by leader 5. Aytuğ Atıcı 6. Serdal Kuyucuoğlu 7. Sibel Gazi Tabel 8. Ebru Çalışkan 9. Seyit Özananar 10. Ali Koç 11. Nevin Zaimoğlu
Total votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout

2011

Turkish general election, 2011: Mersin[9]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	AKP	Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan, Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, Nebi Bozkur, Çiğdem Münevver Ökten	311,050	32.00
	CHP	Aytuğ Atıcı, Vahap Seçer, İsa Gök, Ali Rıza Öztürk	310,714	31.96
	MHP	Mehmet Şandır, Ali Öz	224,477	23.09
	Independents	Ertuğrul Kürkçü	93,876	9.66
	BBP	None elected	6954	0.72
	Democrat	None elected	6392	0.66
	Felicity	None elected	4863	0.50
	HAS Party	None elected	3632	0.37	N/A
	DYP	None elected	2216	0.23
	Nation	None elected	2122	0.22
	Democratic Left	None elected	1852	0.19	[10]
	Turkish Communists	None elected	1520	0.16
	HEPAR	None elected	1487	0.15
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	891	0.09
	Labour	None elected	0
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	0
Turnout			521,086	88.16

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Mersin[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	496,780	54.56
	AKP	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	291,231	31.98
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	122,561	13.46
Total votes			910,572	100.00
Rejected ballots			12,537	1.36
Turnout			923,109	77.31
	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

1. Left the DSP in 2001 to join the newly founded YTP.
2. Left his party in 2005 and briefly joined the SHP before becoming independent once again.
3. Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2004.
4. Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2005.
5. Served as transport minister before leaving his party in 2002 and joining the BBP.
6. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
7. Ali Er left the Motherland Party in August 2002 to join the AK Party, on whose ticket he ran in 2002.
8. Expelled from his party in 2000; subsequently served as an independent.
9. High Electoral Commission of Turkey
10. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
11. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

Coordinates: 36°45′N 34°00′E / 36.750°N 34.000°E