Şanlıurfa is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects twelve 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. Şanlıurfa is one of the largest in southeast Turkey, sending twelve members to Ankara.
The overwhelming majority of members are from the governing party. Şanlıurfa is 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 such independent candidates was elected here in 2011 and has joined the BDP; another independent candidate was also elected.
MPs for Şanlıurfa, 1999 onwardsSeat 1 Yahya AkmanVirtue Yahya AkmanAK Party Nureddin NebatiAK Party 2 Mehmet Fevzi ŞıhanlıoğluDYP Mahmut KaplanAK Party Abdulkadir Emin ÖnenAK Party Mazhar BağlıAK Party 3 Zülfikar İzolVirtue Zülfikar İzolAK Party Abdülkerim GökAK Party Hamide SürücüAK Party 4 Sedat Edip BucakDYP Abdurrahman Müfit YetkinAK Party Mehmet AkyürekAK Party Ahmet Eşref FakıbabaAK Party 5 Mehmet YalçınkayaDYP Mehmet Atılla MaraşAK Party Seyit EyyüpoğluJoined the AK Party in 2010.Independent / AK Party 6 Necmettin CevheriDYP Mehmet Faruk BayrakAK Party Ramazan BaşakAK Party Halil ÖzcanAK Party 7 Ahmet KaravarVirtue Mehmet ÖzlekAK Party Sabahttin CevheriAK Party Mehmet Kasım GülpınarAK Party 8 Eyyüp Cenap GülpınarMotherland Mehmet Vedat MelikCHP Eyyüp Cenap GülpınarAK Party Mahmut KaçarAK Party Dilek ÖcalanHDP 9 Muzaffer ÇakmaklıMHP Mahmut YıldızCHP Mustafa KuşAK Party Zeynep Armağan UsluAK Party Osman BaydemirHDP 10 Mustafa Niyazi YanmazVirtue Sabahattin CevheriJoined the AK Party in 2003.Independent Çağla Aktemur ÖzyavuzAK Party Faruk ÇelikAK Party Ziya ÇalışkanHDP 11 Mehmet GüneşMotherland Turan TüysüzLeft his party and joined Motherland in 2005.CHP İbrahim BiniciRan 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) Leyla GüvenHDP 12 No seat İbrahim AyhanRan in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.Independent (BDP) / HDP
General elections 2011
June 2015 PartyVotes%AK PartyJustice and Development Party356,537HDPPeoples' Democratic Party293,841CHPRepublican People's Party31,273MHPNationalist Movement Party42,479Other39,250Total763,380Turnout80.21source: YSK
November 2015 PartyVotes%AK PartyJustice and Development Party519,079HDPPeoples' Democratic Party228,807CHPRepublican People's Party21,686MHPNationalist Movement Party22,086Other12,228Total803,885Turnout83,77source: YSK
2018 PartyVotes%AK PartyJustice and Development Party440,085HDPPeoples' Democratic Party247,256MHPNationalist Movement Party77,479CHPRepublican People's Party28,880IYIGood Party14,965HÜDA-PARFree Cause Party13,495SPFelicity Party10,913Other10,788Total843,861Turnout81.48source: YSK
2023 PartyVotes%AK PartyJustice and Development Party424.999YSGPParty of Greens and the Left Future245.500MHPNationalist Movement Party93.267CHPRepublican People's Party79.539Independent51.399IYIGood Party45.097YRPNew Welfare Party28.949Other20.404Total999.527Turnout81.82%source: YSK
Presidential elections
2014
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