Kocaeli (electoral district)

Kocaeli
Kocaeli
electoral district; for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
	Kocaeli shown within Turkey
Province	Kocaeli
Electorate	1,096,593
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	11; Historical 9 (2002-2011); 10 (1999-2002); 9 (1995-1999); 7 (1987-1995); 5 (1973-1987); 4 (1969-1973); 5 (1961-1969); 6 (1957-1961); 12 (1954-1957);
MPs	List Nihat Ergün AKP; Fikri Işık AKP; Azize Sibel Gönül AKP; Muzaffer Baştopçu AKP; Zeki Aygün AKP; İlyas Şeker AKP; Mehmet Ali Okur AKP; Hurşit Güneş CHP; Mehmet Hilal Kaplan CHP; Haydar Akar CHP; Lütfü Türkkan MHP;
Turnout at last election	89.16%
	Representation
AK Party	7 / 11
CHP	3 / 11
MHP	1 / 11
	Politics of Turkey; Political parties; ; Elections previous; next; ;

Kocaeli is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects fourteen 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. At the last election Kocaeli's seat allocation increased to eleven, having generally increased from a low of 4 MPs in 1969.

MPs for Kocaeli, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)
1	width=1px style="background-color: Template:True Path Party/meta/color" \|	Meral Akşener DYP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Nihat Ergün AK Party					width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
2	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Virtue Party/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Batuk FP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Muzaffer Baştopçu AK Party					width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
3	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Virtue Party/meta/color" \|	Vecdi Gönül FP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Vecdi Gönül AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Azize Sibel Gönül AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
4	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Virtue Party/meta/color" \|	Osman Pepe FP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Osman Pepe AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Ali Okur AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
5	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Motherland Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Sefer Ekşi Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Nevzat Doğan AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Fikri Işık AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
6	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Cumali Durmuş MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Eyüp Ayar AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Zeki Aygün AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
7	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Kemal Köse MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	İzzet Çetin CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Cumali Durmuş MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Mustafa Sait Gönen MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|
8	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Democratic Left Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ahmet Arkan DSP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Sefa Sirmen CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Hikmet Erenkaya CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Hurşit Güneş CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
9	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Democratic Left Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Halil Çalık DSP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Salih Gün CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Cevdet Selvi CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Hilal Kaplan CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
10	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Democratic Left Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Muhammet Turhan İmamoğlu DSP	No seat				width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Haydar Akar CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
11	No seat						width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	İlyas Şeker AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|

General elections

2011

Unelected candidates in small text.

Turkish general election, 2011: Kocaeli^[1]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	AK Party	Nihat Ergün, Fikri Işık, Azize Sibel Gönül, Muzaffer Baştopçu, Zeki Aygün, İlyas Şeker, Mehmet Ali Okur	504,535	52.71
	CHP	Hurşit Güneş, Mehmet Hilal Kaplan, Haydar Akar	235,770	24.63
	MHP	Lütfü Türkkan	114,304	11.94
	SAADET	None elected	41,870	4.37
	Independent	None elected	22,153	2.31
	HAS Party	None elected	14,939	1.56	N/A
	DP	None elected	5995	0.63
	Büyük Birlik	None elected	5615	0.59
	HEPAR	None elected	3796	0.40
	DSP	None elected	2414	0.25	'"`UNIQ−−ref−00000009−QINU`"'
	DYP	None elected	1859	0.19
	MP	None elected	1716	0.18
	Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today)	None elected	1452	0.15
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	759	0.08
	Labour	None elected	0
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	0
Turnout			1,096,593	89.16

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Kocaeli^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	521,489	58.54
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	320,516	35.98
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	48,893	5.49
Total votes			890,898	100.00
Rejected ballots			21,952	2.40
Turnout			912,850	77.02
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

^ [1] Turkish electoral commission
^ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
^ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

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[1] [1] Turkish electoral commission

[2] DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year

[3] ttp://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

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