Isparta (electoral district)

Isparta
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Isparta shown within Turkey
Province Isparta
Electorate 298,187
Current electoral district
Created 1923
Seats

4

MPs
Turnout at last election 88.35%[1]
AK Party
2 / 4
CHP
1 / 4
MHP
1 / 4

Isparta is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects four 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.

Isparta returned four MPs during the 1999 parliamentary election. five MPs during the parliamentary elections in 2002 and 2007. In 2011, the number of seats again fell to four.

Isparta is famous for being the constituency from which Süleyman Demirel, the 12th Prime Minister of Turkey and the 9th President of Turkey, was elected to parliament as leader of the Justice Party and later the True Path Party during the 1960-90s.

MPs for Isparta, 1999 onwards[2][3][4][5]
Election 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Erkan Mumcu
ANAP
Mehmet Sait Armağan
AK Party
Süreyya Sadi̇ Bi̇lgi̇ç
AK Party
MP Ramazan Gül
DYP
Mehmet Emin Murat Bilgiç
AK Party
Mehmet Sait Dilek
AK Party
Recep Özel
AK Party
MP Osman Gazi Aksoy
MHP
Erkan Mumcu
AK Party
Haydar Kemal Kurt
AK Party
Ali Haydar Öner
CHP
İrfan Bakır
CHP
MP Mustafa Zorlu
MHP
Recep Özel
AK Party
Süleyman Nevzat Korkmaz
MHP
Nuri Okutan
MHP
MP No seat Mevlüt Coşkuner
CHP
No seat

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: Isparta[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
AK Party 135,435 52.90 Increase9.03
CHP 55,594 21.72 Increase8.37
MHP 48,412 18.91 Decrease4.75
Democrat 3,745 1.46 Decrease10.83
Felicity 3,272 1.28 Decrease1.59
HAS Party 2,620 1.02 Increase1.02
BBP 2,115 0.83 Increase0.83
DYP 1,247 0.49 Increase0.49
Independent 966 0.38 Increase0.24
HEPAR 734 0.29 Increase0.29
Labour 530 0.21 Steady0.00
Democratic Left 453 0.18 N/A
Nation 263 0.10 Increase0.10
Nationalist Conservative 256 0.10 Increase0.10
Turkish Communists 246 0.10 Decrease0.06
Liberal Democrat 119 0.05 Increase0.04
Total votes 256,007 100.00
Rejected ballots 8,234 3.13 Increase1.24
Turnout 263,442 88.35 Decrease0.13

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Isparta[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 133,555 55.46
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 103,202 42.86
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 4,044 1.68
Total votes 240,801 100.00
Rejected ballots 6,564 2.65
Turnout 247,365 81.47
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

Coordinates: 37°50′N 34°45′E / 37.833°N 34.750°E / 37.833; 34.750

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