Tokat (electoral district)

Tokat
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Tokat shown within Turkey
Province	Tokat
Electorate	417,086
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	5 Historical 7 (2002-2011) 6 (1999-2002) 7 (1995-1999) 6 (1983-1995) 7 (1961-1983) 10 (1957-1961) 9 (1954-1957)
MPs	List Zeyid Aslan AKP Şükrü Ayalan AKP Dilek Yüksel AKP Orhan Düzgün CHP Reşat Doğru MHP
Turnout at last election	88.42%
Representation
AKP	3 / 5
MHP	1 / 5
CHP	1 / 5
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Tokat is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects 5 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. The number of seats allocated to Tokat fluctuated between six and seven seats in the last twenty years. It has now dropped to five seats, its lowest level yet.

MPs for Tokat, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP		Mehmet Ergün Dağçıoğlu FP		Zeyid Aslan AK Party						Coşkun Çakır AK Party
MP		Bekir Sobacı FP		Şükrü Ayalan AK Party						Celil Göçer AK Party
MP		Lütfi Ceylan MHP		İbrahim Çamak AK Party		Dilek Yüksel AK Party				Fatma Gaye Güler AK Party
MP		Hasan Hüseyin Balak MHP		Orhan Ziya Diren CHP				Orhan Düzgün CHP
MP		Reşat Doğru MHP		Feramüz Şahin CHP		Reşat Doğru MHP				Abdurrahman Başkan MHP
MP		Ali Şevki Erek DYP		Mehmet Ergün Dağçıoğlu AK Party		Osman Demir AK Party	Seat abolished
MP	No seat			Resul Tosun AK Party		Hüseyin Gülsün AK Party	Seat abolished

General elections

2011

Turkish general election, 2011: Tokat[1]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	AKP	Zeyid Aslan,Şükrü Ayalan,Dilek Yüksel	202,481	55.90
	CHP	Orhan Düzgün	85,149	23.51
	MHP	Reşat Doğru	57,257	15.81
	Felicity	None elected	6267	1.73
	BBP	None elected	3591	0.99
	HAS Party	None elected	2643	0.73	N/A
	Democrat	None elected	2107	0.58
	DYP	None elected	719	0.20
	Labour	None elected	564	0.16
	Nation	None elected	366	0.1
	Democratic Left	None elected	358	0.1	[2]
	Turkish Communists	None elected	281	0.08
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	264	0.07
	Independents	None elected	173	0.05
	HEPAR	None elected	0
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	418	0.11
Turnout			362,220	88.04

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Tokat[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AKP	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	206,899	62.29
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	121,248	36.50
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	4,018	1.21
Total votes			332,165	100.00
Rejected ballots			6,541	1.93
Turnout			338,706	81.14
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

1. High Electoral Commission of Turkey
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°25′N 36°35′E / 40.417°N 36.583°E