Siirt is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects three 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. Siirt's seat allocation has been remained unchanged at three seats since 1991.
Siirt is distinctive as being the site of a by-election, a rarity in Turkish politics, which in 2003 saw Recep Tayyip Erdoğan elected to parliament after a law barring candidates with criminal convictions from standing was amended. Erdoğan subsequently became prime minister.
More recently, Siirt 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. One independent candidate was elected here in 2011 and has since joined the BDP.
MPs for Siirt, 1999 onwardsSeat MP Nizamettin SevgiliMotherland Mervan GülAK Party Recep Tayyip ErdoğanAK Party Afif DemirkıranAK Party Yasin AktayAK Party MP Takiddin YarayanDYP Ekrem BilekCHP Öner ErgençAK Party Mehmet Yılmaz HelvacıoğluAK Party Osman ÖrenAK Party Hatice SeviptekinHDP MP Ahmet Nurettin AydınFP Fadıl AkgündüzIndependent Öner GülyeşilAK Party Osman ÖzçelikIndependent Gültan KışanakIndependent Kadri YıldırımHDP
General elections 2002 This election was successfully challenged by the AK Party arguing that a boycott by in villagers in Doğan, near Pervari in Siirt, and the absence of an electoral board for the region rendered the vote invalid. Radikal, Siirt seçimleri iptal, published 2 December 2002. A fresh ballot was held on 9 March 2003.
2003
2007
2011
June 2015 PartyVotes%HDPPeoples' Democratic Party93,518AK PartyJustice and Development Party40,137MHPNationalist Movement Party3,389CHPRepublican People's Party1,735Other3,438Total142,217Turnout86.72source: YSK
November 2015 PartyVotes%HDPPeoples' Democratic Party81,702AK PartyJustice and Development Party51,409CHPRepublican People's Party2,314MHPNationalist Movement Party2,104Other2,670Total140,199Turnout85.53source: YSK
2018 PartyVotes%HDPPeoples' Democratic Party76,225AK PartyJustice and Development Party55,890MHPNationalist Movement Party4,905IYIGood Party2,181CHPRepublican People's Party2,990HÜDA-PARFree Cause Party1,776SPFelicity Party1,355Other945Total146,267Turnout84.26source: YSK
2023 PartyVotes%YSGPParty of Greens and the Left Future77.267AK PartyJustice and Development Party59.553CHPRepublican People's Party12.843MHPNationalist Movement Party6.462IYIGood Party2.482YRPNew Welfare Party1.958Independent1.268Other3.891Total168.261Turnout%83,36 source: YSK
Presidential elections
2014
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