Şanlıurfa (electoral district)

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.

Şanlıurfa
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Şanlıurfa shown within Turkey
Province	Şanlıurfa
Electorate	1.221.634
Current electoral district
Created	1923
Seats	14 Historical 11 (1999-2011) 9 (1995-1999) 8 (1991-1995) 7 (1987-1991) 5 (1983-1987) 7 (1973-1983) 6 (1969-1973) 7 (1961-1969) 9 (1957-1961) 8 (1954-1957)
MPs	List Bekir Bozdağ AK Party Abdulkadir Emin Önen AK Party Abdürrahi̇m Dusak AK Party Mehmet Ali Cevheri AK Party Cevahi̇r Asuman Yazmacı AK Party İbrahi̇m Eyyüpoğlu AK Party Hi̇kmet Başak AK Party Mehmet Faruk Pınarbaşı AK Party Mithat Sancar DEM Party Ömer Öcalan DEM Party Di̇lan Kunt Ayan DEM Party Ferit Şenyaşar DEM Party İbrahim Özyavuz MHP Mahmut Tanal CHP
Turnout at last election	81.82%
Representation
AK Party	8 / 14
DEM	4 / 14
MHP	1 / 14
CHP	1 / 14
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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 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
1		Yahya Akman Virtue		Yahya Akman AK Party						Nureddin Nebati AK Party
2		Mehmet Fevzi Şıhanlıoğlu DYP		Mahmut Kaplan AK Party		Abdulkadir Emin Önen AK Party				Mazhar Bağlı AK Party
3		Zülfikar İzol Virtue		Zülfikar İzol AK Party				Abdülkerim Gök AK Party		Hamide Sürücü AK Party
4		Sedat Edip Bucak DYP		Abdurrahman Müfit Yetkin AK Party				Mehmet Akyürek AK Party		Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba AK Party
5		Mehmet Yalçınkaya DYP		Mehmet Atılla Maraş AK Party		Seyit Eyyüpoğlu[1] Independent / AK Party
6		Necmettin Cevheri DYP		Mehmet Faruk Bayrak AK Party		Ramazan Başak AK Party		Halil Özcan AK Party
7		Ahmet Karavar Virtue		Mehmet Özlek AK Party		Sabahttin Cevheri AK Party		Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar AK Party
8		Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar Motherland		Mehmet Vedat Melik CHP		Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar AK Party		Mahmut Kaçar AK Party		Dilek Öcalan HDP
9		Muzaffer Çakmaklı MHP		Mahmut Yıldız CHP		Mustafa Kuş AK Party		Zeynep Armağan Uslu AK Party		Osman Baydemir HDP
10		Mustafa Niyazi Yanmaz Virtue		Sabahattin Cevheri[2] Independent		Çağla Aktemur Özyavuz AK Party		Faruk Çelik AK Party		Ziya Çalışkan HDP
11		Mehmet Güneş Motherland		Turan Tüysüz[3] CHP		İbrahim Binici[4] Independent (DTP/BDP)				Leyla Güven HDP
12	No seat							İbrahim Ayhan[5] Independent (BDP) / HDP

General elections

2011

2011 Turkish general election: Şanlıurfa[6][7]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	AK Party	Faruk Çelik, Seyit Eyyüpoğlu, Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar, Mehmet Akyürek, Zeynep Armağan Uslu, Halil Özcan, Mahmur Kaçar, Abdulkadir Emin Önen, Yahya Akman, Abdulkerim Gök	430,453	63.46
	Independent	İbrahim Ayhan	77,416	11.41
	Independent	İbrahim Binici	42,463	22.84
	Independent	Ahmet Ersin Bucak (not elected)	31,090	4.58
	MHP	None elected	22,357	3.30
	CHP	None elected	21,777	3.21
	Other independents	None elected	18,445	2.72
	Independent	Zülfikar İzol (not elected)	14,724	2.17
	Büyük Birlik	None elected	6,220	0.92
	HAS Party	None elected	5,925	0.87	N/A
	SAADET	None elected	3,382	0.5
	DP	None elected	1,743	0.26
	TKP	None elected	1,235	0.18
	DSP	None elected	700	0.1	'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000E−QINU`"'
	DYP	None elected	598	0.09
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	555	0.08
	MP	None elected	426	0.06
	Labour	None elected	0
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	0
	HEPAR	None elected	0
Turnout			678,286	82.14

June 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	356,537	46.7%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	293,841	38.5%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	31,273	4.1%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	42,479	5.6%
		Other	39,250	5.1%
Total			763,380
Turnout			80.21
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	519,079	64.6%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	228,807	28.5%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	21,686	2.7%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	22,086	2.7%
		Other	12,228	1.5%
Total			803,885
Turnout			83,77
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	440,085	52.2%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	247,256	29.3%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	77,479	9.2%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	28,880	3.4%
	IYI	Good Party	14,965	1.8%
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	13,495	1.6%
	SP	Felicity Party	10,913	1.3%
		Other	10,788	1.3%
Total			843,861
Turnout			81.48
source: YSK

2023

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	424.999	43%
	YSGP	Party of Greens and the Left Future	245.500	24.8%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	93.267	9.4%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	79.539	8%
		Independent	51.399	5.2%
	IYI	Good Party	45.097	4.6%
	YRP	New Welfare Party	28.949	2.9%
		Other	20.404	2.1%
Total			999.527
Turnout			81.82%
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Şanlıurfa^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	455,170	68.60
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	174,075	26.24
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	34,251	5.16
Total votes			663,496	100.00
Rejected ballots			7,933	1.18
Turnout			671,429	71.86
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win