Nevşehir (electoral district)

Nevşehir 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.

Nevsehir
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Nevsehir shown within Turkey
ProvinceNevsehir
Electorate196,854
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats3
MPs
Turnout at last election87.96%
AK Party
2 / 3
MHP
1 / 3

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.

Nevşehir's seat allocation has been remained unchanged at three seats for more than fifty years.

MPs for Nevşehir, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Mehmet Elkatmış
FP		 Mehmet Elkatmış
AK Party		 Ahmet Erdal Feralan
AK Party		 Mustafa Açıkgöz
AK Party
MP İsmail Çevik
MHP		 Osman Seyfi
AK Party		 Mahmut Dede
AK Party		 Murat Göktürk
AK Party
MP Mükremin Taşkın
MHP		 Rıtvan Köybaşı
AK Party		 Ebu Bekir Gizligider
AK Party		 Mehmet Varol
MHP

General elections

2011
2011 Turkish general election: Nevşehir[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±
AK Party Ahmet Erdal Feralan, Murat Göktürk, Ebu Bekir Gizligider 102,384 60.19
MHP None elected 31,031 18.24
CHP None elected 27.783 16.33
Felicity None elected 2857 1.68
HAS Party None elected 1595 0.94
BBP None elected 1571 0.94
Democrat None elected 1198 0.70
DYP None elected 347 0.20
Labour None elected 288 0.17
HEPAR None elected 270 0.16
DSP None elected 270 0.16 [2]
Nationalist Conservative None elected 180 0.11
TKP None elected 136 0.08
Nation None elected 90 0.05
Independent None elected 74 0.04
Liberal Democrat None elected 45 0.03
Turnout 170,101 87.96

Presidential elections

2014
Presidential Election 2014: Nevşehir[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 104,250 64.42
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 55,319 34.18
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 2,267 1.40
Total votes 161,836 100.00
Rejected ballots 3,655 2.21
Turnout 165,491 81.09
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References
  1. Electoral Commission
  2. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  3. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

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