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
AK Party	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, one of which is 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)
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	%	±
	AK Party	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
	AK Party	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

1. 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.
2. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
3. Hürriyet
4. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
5. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/igdir.pdf

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