Sakarya (electoral district)

Sakarya is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects 7 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.

Sakarya
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Sakarya shown within Turkey
ProvinceSakarya
Electorate550,883
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats7
MPs
Turnout at last election89.24%
AK Party
5 / 7
CHP
1 / 7
MHP
1 / 7

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. The number of seats allocated to Sakarya fluctuated between six and seven seats in the last twenty years; most recently it rose to seven seats.

MPs for Sakarya, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Cevat Ayhan
FP		 Şaban Dişli
AK Party		 Mustafa İsen
AK Party
MP Nezir Aydın
FP		 Hasan Ali Çelik
AK Party		 Recep Uncuoğlu
AK Party
MP Osman Fevzi Zihnioğlu
MHP		 Ayhan Sefer Üstün
AK Party		 Ali İnci
AK Party
MP Şaban Ramis Savaş
FP		 Erol Aslan Cebeci
AK Party		 Ayşenur İslam
AK Party
MP Nevzat Ercan
DYP		 Recep Yıldırım
AK Party		 Ali İhsan Yavuz
AK Party
MP Ersin Taranoğlu
Anavatan		 Süleyman Gündüz
AK Party		 Münir Kutluata
MHP		 Zihni Açba
MHP
MP No seat Engin Özkoç
CHP

General elections

2011
2011 Turkish general election: Sakarya[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±
AK Party Hasan Ali Çelik, Ayhan Sefer Üstün, Şaban Dişli, Ayşenur İslam, Ali İhsan Yavuz 334,823 61.62
CHP Engin Özkoç 88,043 16.20
MHP Münir Kutluata 81,515 15.00
Felicity None elected 14,619 2.69
HAS Party None elected 9206 1.69 N/A
Independent Hüseyin Tanış[2] 3450 0.63
Democrat None elected 3237 0.60
BBP None elected 2144 0.39
HEPAR None elected 1547 0.28
DYP None elected 1152 0.21
DSP None elected 1127 0.21 [3]
Labour None elected 835 0.15
TKP None elected 514 0.09
Nationalist Conservative None elected 510 0.09
Nation None elected 375 0.07
Liberal Democrat None elected 231 0.04
Turnout 543,328 89,24

June 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 324,001 56.6%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 111,127 19.4%
CHP Republican People's Party 90,733 15.9%
SP Felicity Party 22,444 3.9%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 14,772 2.6%
Other 8,858 1.5%
Total 571,935
Turnout 88.03
source: YSK

November 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 399,039 67.6%
CHP Republican People's Party 90,810 15.4%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 72,269 12.2%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 9,924 1.7%
SP Felicity Party 7,860 1.3%
Other 10,386 1.8%
Total 590,288
Turnout 89.85
source: YSK

2018
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 358,992 57.4%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 84,952 13.6%
CHP Republican People's Party 84,316 13.5%
IYI Good Party 59,290 9.5%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 14,048 2.2%
SP Felicity Party 11,286 1.8%
Other 13,002 2.1%
Total 625,886
Turnout 90.37
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014
Presidential Election 2014: Sakarya[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 349,218 69.08
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 144,823 28.65
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 11,477 2.27
Total votes 505,518 100.00
Rejected ballots 11,024 2.13
Turnout 516,542 79.04
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References
  1. High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  2. Arslan, Ferit (10 April 2011). "BDP adaylarını açıkladı (BDP announces its candidates)". Radikal. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  3. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  4. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

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