Rize (electoral district)

Rize 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.

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

As a small electoral district, Rize's seat allocation has oscillated between three and four seats over the last two decades.

Rize was the district from which former prime minister Mesut Yılmaz was elected, first for his Anavatan and later as an independent.

MPs for Rize, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Mesut Yılmaz
Anavatan		 Abdülkadir Kart
AK Party		 Mesut Yılmaz
Independent		 Hayati Yazıcı
AK Party		 Hikmet Ayar
AK Party
MP Ahmet Kabil
Anavatan		 İlyas Çakır
AK Party		 Bayram Ali Bayramoğlu
AK Party		 Hasan Karal
AK Party
MP Mehmet Bekaroğlu
FP		 İmdat Sütlüoğlu
AK Party		 Lütfi Çırakoğlu
AK Party		 Nusret Bayraktar
AK Party		 Osman Aşkın Bak
AK Party

General elections

2011
2011 Turkish general election: Rize[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±
AK Party Hayati Yazıcı, Hasan Karal, Nusret Bayraktar 134,549 68.91
CHP None elected 33,408 17.11
MHP None elected 14,929 7.65
Felicity None elected 6241 3.20
HAS Party None elected 1743 0.89
Democrat None elected 1142 0.58
BBP None elected 806 0.41
Independent None elected 679 0.35
HEPAR None elected 481 0.25
DSP None elected 348 0.18 [2]
Labour None elected 239 0.12
DYP None elected 206 0.11
Nationalist Conservative None elected 184 0.09
TKP None elected 157 0.08
Liberal Democrat None elected 79 0.04
Nation None elected 66 0.03
Turnout 195,257 85.06

June 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 131,168 66.8%
CHP Republican People's Party 37,110 18.9%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 15,870 8.1%
SP Felicity Party 6,798 3.5%
Other 5,526 2.8%
Total 196,472
Turnout 82.36
source: YSK

November 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 152,923 75.9%
CHP Republican People's Party 29,970 14.9%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 10,815 5.4%
SP Felicity Party 2,997 1.5%
Other 4,829 2.4%
Total 201,534
Turnout 84.02
source: YSK

2018
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 139,948 64.3%
CHP Republican People's Party 27,800 12.8%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 26,907 12.4%
IYI Good Party 13,088 6%
SP Felicity Party 4,096 1.9%
Other 5,768 2.7%
Total 217,507
Turnout 88.02
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014
Presidential Election 2014: Rize[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 148,641 80.57
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 33,708 18.27
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 2,137 1.16
Total votes 184,486 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,584 1.91
Turnout 188,070 76.61
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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