Turkish Parliament Speaker election, November 2015

November 2015 Turkish Parliament Speaker elections
Turkey
November 2015
All 550 Members of Parliament voting in the Grand National Assembly
367 votes needed to win in the first two rounds
276 votes needed to win in the third round
 
Nominee İsmail Kahraman Ayşe Gülsün Bilgehan
Party AK Party CHP
Constituency İstanbul (I) Ankara (I)
Round 1 316 (60.2%) 127 (24.2%)
Round 2 318 (60.8%) 126 (24.1%)
Round 3 316 (60.5%) 125 (23.9%)
 
Nominee Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat Yusuf Halaçoğlu
Party HDP MHP
Constituency Mersin Kayseri
Round 1 41 (7.8%) 41 (7.8%)
Round 2 39 (7.5%) 40 (7.6%)
Round 3 41 (7.9%) 40 (7.7%)
Speaker before election

İsmet Yılmaz
AK Party

 Elected Speaker

İsmail Kahraman
AK Party

The Turkish Parliament Speaker elections of November 2015 took place on 22 November 2015 to elect the 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly, who will preside over the proceedings of the 26th Parliament of Turkey elected in the 1 November 2015 general election.

Conduct

Motion to delay

İdris Baluken, a parliamentary group leader of the People's Democratic Party (HDP), raised a motion to delay the speaker election on the grounds that two HDP MPs were on hunger strike in the district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province, which had entered its tenth day of military curfew. Baluken claimed that this would result in the election outcome not being representative of the parliamentary composition. Interim speaker Deniz Baykal however rejected the motion regarding it as irrelevant to the parliamentary agenda.[1]

Results

Party Candidate Party
MPs		 Round 1
367 votes to win		 Round 2
367 votes to win		 Round 3
276 votes to win
AKP İsmail Kahraman 317
316
318
Green tickY 316
CHP Ayşe Gülsün Bilgehan 134
127
126
125
HDP Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat 59
41
40
41
MHP Yusuf Halaçoğlu 40
41
39
40
Invalid
0
0
2
Blank
0
0
0
Turnout
525
523
524
Result Inconclusive Inconclusive Kahraman elected
Source: RotaHaber

See also

References

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