Kocaeli (electoral district)

Kocaeli is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects fourteen 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.

Kocaeli
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Kocaeli highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Kocaeli shown within Turkey
ProvinceKocaeli
Electorate1,096,593
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats11
Historical
  • 9 (2002-2011)
    10 (1999-2002)
    9 (1995-1999)
    7 (1987-1995)
    5 (1973-1987)
    4 (1969-1973)
    5 (1961-1969)
    6 (1957-1961)
    12 (1954-1957)
MPs
List
Turnout at last election89.16%
AK Party
6 / 11
CHP
3 / 11
MHP
1 / 11
HDP
1 / 11
Electoral districts of Kocaeli province

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. At the last election Kocaeli's seat allocation increased to eleven, having generally increased from a low of 4 MPs in 1969.

MPs for Kocaeli, 1999 onwards
Seat1999 (21st parliament)2002 (22nd parliament)2007 (23rd parliament)2011 (24th parliament)June 2015 (25th parliament)
1Meral Akşener
DYP
Nihat Ergün
AKP
Cemalettin Kaflı
AKP
2Mehmet Batuk
FP
Muzaffer Baştopçu
AKP
Mehmet Akif Yılmaz
AKP
3Vecdi Gönül
FP
Vecdi Gönül
AKP
Azize Sibel Gönül
AKP
Radiye Sezer Katırcıoğlu
AKP
4Osman Pepe
FP
Osman Pepe
AKP
İlyas Şeker
AKP
5Sefer Ekşi
Anavatan
Nevzat Doğan
AKP
Fikri Işık
AKP
6Cumali Durmuş
MHP
Eyüp Ayar
AKP
Zeki Aygün
AKP
7Kemal Köse
MHP
İzzet Çetin
CHP
Cumali Durmuş
MHP
Mustafa Sait Gönen
MHP
Saffet Sancaklı
MHP
8Ahmet Arkan
DSP
Mehmet Sefa Sirmen
CHP
Hikmet Erenkaya
CHP
Hurşit Güneş
CHP
Tahsin Tarhan
CHP
9Halil Çalık
DSP
Salih Gün
CHP
Mehmet Cevdet Selvi
CHP
Mehmet Hilal Kaplan
CHP
Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet
CHP
10Muhammet Turhan İmamoğlu
DSP
No seatHaydar Akar
CHP
11No seatMehmet Ali Okur
AKP
Ali Haydar Konca
HDP

General elections

2011

Unelected candidates in small text.

2011 Turkish general election: Kocaeli[1]
ListCandidatesVotesOf total (%)± from prev.
AK PartyNihat Ergün, Fikri Işık, Azize Sibel Gönül, Muzaffer Baştopçu, Zeki Aygün, İlyas Şeker, Mehmet Ali Okur504,53552.71
CHPHurşit Güneş, Mehmet Hilal Kaplan, Haydar Akar235,77024.63
MHPLütfü Türkkan114,30411.94
SAADETNone elected41,8704.37
IndependentNone elected22,1532.31
HAS PartyNone elected14,9391.56N/A
DPNone elected59950.63
Büyük BirlikNone elected56150.59
HEPARNone elected37960.40
DSPNone elected24140.25[2]
DYPNone elected18590.19
MPNone elected17160.18
TKPNone elected14520.15
Nationalist ConservativeNone elected7590.08
LabourNone elected0
Liberal DemocratNone elected0
Turnout1,096,59389.16

June 2015

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AKPJustice and Development Party487,78146.3%
CHPRepublican People's Party256,67824.4%
MHPNationalist Movement Party161,49215.3%
HDPPeoples' Democratic Party77,5627.4%
Other69,2486.6%
Total1,052,761
Turnout88.08
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AKPJustice and Development Party621,19856.5%
CHPRepublican People's Party257,81023.4%
MHPNationalist Movement Party123,66211.2%
HDPPeoples' Democratic Party60,7225.5%
Other36,3883.3%
Total1,099,780
Turnout89.90
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AKPJustice and Development Party556,67147.3%
CHPRepublican People's Party235,46520%
MHPNationalist Movement Party132,45211.3%
IYIGood Party122,64510.4%
HDPPeoples' Democratic Party82,8607%
SPFelicity Party25,9502.2%
Other19,6191.7%
Total1,175,662
Turnout89.84
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Kocaeli[3]
PartyCandidateVotes%
AK PartyRecep Tayyip Erdoğan 521,489 58.54
IndependentEkmeleddin İhsanoğlu320,51635.98
HDPSelahattin Demirtaş48,8935.49
Total votes890,898 100.00
Rejected ballots21,9522.40
Turnout912,85077.02
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

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