Van (electoral district)

Van
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Van shown within Turkey
Province	Van
Electorate	547,016
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	8 Historical 7 (1999-2011) 6 (1995-1999) 5 (1987-1995) 4 (1961-1987) 3 (1957-1961) 4 (1954-1957)
MPs	List Burhan Kayatürk AKP Fatih Çiftçi AKP Mustafa Bilici AKP Gülşen Orhan AKP Özdal Üçer BDP Nazmi Gür BDP Kemal Aktaş Ind Aysel Tuğluk Ind
Turnout at last election	80.49%
Representation
HDP	7 / 8
AKP	1 / 8
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Van is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects 8 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. Van's seat allocation has gradually increased over the last sixty years, from three seats in 1957 to eight seats today.

There are currently eight sitting members of parliament representing Van, four of which are from the governing party. Van was a district where the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) ran independent candidates in an attempt to overcome the 10 percent national electoral threshold. Four independent candidates were elected here in 2011; two have since joined the BDP.

MPs for Van, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)	2002 (22nd parliament)	2007 (23rd parliament)	2011 (24th parliament)	June 2015 (25th parliament)
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)	2002 (22nd parliament)	2007 (23rd parliament)	2011 (24th parliament)	June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP		Hüseyin Çelik DYP	Hüseyin Çelik AK Party		Burhan Kayatürk AK Party
MP		Fetullah Gültepe DYP	Cüneyt Karabıyık AK Party	Gülşen Orhan AK Party		Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu HDP
MP		Fethullah Erbaş FP	Hacı Biner AK Party	İkram Dinçer AK Party	Fatih Çiftçi AK Party	Yurdusev Özsökmenler HDP
MP		Maliki Ejder Arvas FP	Maliki Ejder Arvas AK Party	Kerem Altun AK Party	Mustafa Bilicir AK Party	Adem Özcaner HDP
MP		Mustafa Bayram FP	Asuman Yekta Haydaroğlu AK Party	Kayhan Türkmenoğlu AK Party	Kemal Aktaş Independent	Tuğba Hezer HDP
MP		Kamran İnan Anavatan	Halil Kaya AK Party	Fatma Kurtulan Independent	Aysel Tuğluk Independent	Selami Özyaşar HDP
MP		Ayhan Çevik MHP	Mehmet Kartal CHP	Özdal Üçer^[1] Independent (DTP/BDP)		Remzi Özgökçe HDP
MP	No seat				Nazmi Gür^[2] Independent (BDP)	Lezgin Botan HDP

General elections

2011

Elected candidates in bold

Turkish general election, 2011: Van^[3]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	AKP	Burhan Kayatürk, Fatih Çiftçi, Mustafa Bilici, Gülşen Orhan Zahir Soğanda, Abdulahat Arvas, Necat Görentaş, Hasan Karadaş	171,665	40.26
	Independent	Kemal Aktaş	65,447	15.35
	Independent	Özdal Üçer	51,357	12.04
	Independent	Aysel Tuğluk	49.339	11.57
	Independent	Nazmi Gür	41,212	9.67
	CHP	Zahir Kandaşoğlu, Mehmet Acar, Abdulbari Melek, Selim Karakuş, Sabriye Çabuker, Şahin Efendioğlu, Nurettin Erörs, Niyazi Çınak	15,945	3.74
	MHP	Mustafa Kaçmaz, Ahmet Erbaş, Ümit Akdağ, Mustafa Alkoç, Ali Özturan, Turgent Lenk, Yüksel Hanalap, Mehmet Emin İnce	12,734	2.99
	BBP	None elected	5306	1.24
	Other independents	Mustafa Sancak, Muhammed Ferhat Kesmez, İdris Ahi, Süleyman Bayram	3974	0.93
	Felicity	None elected	1856	0.44
	HAS Party	None elected	1,734	0.41	N/A
	Democrat	None elected	1706	0.4
	Turkish Communists	None elected	1549	0.36
	Democratic Left	None elected	1257	0.29	^[4]
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	482	0.11
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	465	0.11
	Nation	None elected	345	0.08
	DYP	None elected	18	0
	HEPAR	None elected	11	0
	Labour	None elected	0
Turnout			222,977	91.55

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Van^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	223,277	54.55
	AKP	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	174,369	42.60
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	11,685	2.85
Total votes			409,331	100.00
Rejected ballots			7,564	1.81
Turnout			416,895	71.89
	Selahattin Demirtaş win

References

↑ Ran in 2007 as an independent candidate and joined the DTP afted being elected. Switched to the BDP after the DTP's closure. Ran as an independent candidate again in 2011 and rejointed the BDP afted being elected.
↑ Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
↑ Hürriyet
↑ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
↑ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/igdir.pdf

Electoral districts of Turkey

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Aksaray Amasya Ankara (1st, 2nd) Antalya Ardahan Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bartın Batman Bayburt Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı Çorum Denizli Diyarbakır Düzce Edirne Elazığ Erzincan Erzurum Eskişehir Gaziantep Giresun Gümüşhane Hakkari Hatay Iğdır Isparta İstanbul (1st, 2nd, 3rd) İzmir (1st, 2nd) Kahramanmaraş Karabük Karaman Kars Kastamonu Kayseri Kırıkkale Kırklareli Kırşehir Kilis Kocaeli Konya Kütahya Malatya Manisa Mardin Mersin Muğla Muş Nevşehir Niğde Ordu Osmaniye Rize Sakarya Samsun Siirt Sinop Sivas Şanlıurfa Şırnak Tekirdağ Tokat Trabzon Tunceli Uşak Van Yalova Yozgat Zonguldak

Elections and referendums in Turkey

Presidential elections	2014

General elections	1923 1927 1931 1935 1939 1943 1946 1950 1954 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2002 2007 2011 2015 (Jun) 2015 (Nov) next

Local elections	1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1955 1963 1968 1973 1977 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019

Senate elections	1961 1964 1966 1968 1973 1975 1977 1979

Referendums	1961 1982 1987 1988 2007 2010

By-elections	1986 2003

See also: Elections in the Ottoman Empire

Coordinates: 38°24′N 43°43′E / 38.400°N 43.717°E / 38.400; 43.717

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