Van is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eight 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 since 1999Seat MP Hüseyin ÇelikDYP Hüseyin ÇelikAK Party Burhan KayatürkAK Party MP Fetullah GültepeDYP Cüneyt KarabıyıkAK Party Gülşen OrhanAK Party Figen Yüksekdağ ŞenoğluHDP MP Fethullah ErbaşVirtue Hacı BinerAK Party İkram DinçerAK Party Fatih ÇiftçiAK PartyYurdusev ÖzsökmenlerHDP MP Maliki Ejder ArvasVirtue Maliki Ejder ArvasAK Party Kerem AltunAK Party Mustafa BilicirAK Party Adem ÖzcanerHDP MP Mustafa BayramVirtue Asuman Yekta HaydaroğluAK Party Kayhan TürkmenoğluAK Party Kemal AktaşIndependentTuğba Hezer ÖztürkHDP MP Kamran İnanMotherland Halil KayaAK PartyFatma KurtulanIndependentAysel TuğlukIndependent Selami ÖzyaşarHDP MP Ayhan ÇevikMHP Mehmet KartalCHP Özdal ÜçerRan 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.Independent (DTP/BDP) Remzi ÖzgökçeHDP MP No seat Nazmi GürRan in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.Independent (BDP) Lezgin BotanHDP
General elections 2011 Elected candidates in bold
June 2015 PartyVotes%HDPPeoples' Democratic Party368,522AK PartyJustice and Development Party95,480MHPNationalist Movement Party13,329Hüda-ParFree Cause Party3,093CHPRepublican People's Party2,340Other9,818Total492,582Turnout84.49source: YSK
November 2015 PartyVotes%HDPPeoples' Democratic Party310,794AK PartyJustice and Development Party142,436MHPNationalist Movement Party5,417CHPRepublican People's Party6,946Other8,659Total474,252Turnout81.12source: YSK
2018 PartyVotes%HDPPeoples' Democratic Party310,273AK PartyJustice and Development Party157,637MHPNationalist Movement Party14,798CHPRepublican People's Party10,946IYIGood Party5,992HÜDA-PARFree Cause Party4,753SPFelicity Party4,031Other3,429Total511,859Turnout83.06source: YSK
Presidential elections
2014
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