Karaman (electoral district)

Summary

Karaman 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.

Karaman
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Karaman highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Karaman shown within Turkey
ProvinceKaraman
Electorate173,500
Current electoral district
Created1991
Seats3
Historical
  • 3 (2018-today)(1995-2011)
    2 (1991-1993)(2011-2018)
MPs
List
  • Recep ŞEKER AKP
    Selman Oğuzhan ESER AKP
    İsmail Atakan ÜNVER CHP
Turnout at last election90.65%
AK Party
2 / 3
CHP
1 / 3

Members edit

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, Karaman's seat allocation has always been low. It was last reduced to three MPs in 1999.

MPs for Karaman, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
1 Zeki Ünal
FP
Mevlüt Akgün
AK Party
Recep Konuk
AK Party
2 Fikret Ünlü
DSP
Lütfi Elvan
AK Party
Recep Şeker
AK Party
3 Hasan Çalış
MHP
Fikret Ünlü
CHP
Hasan Çalış
MHP
No seat

General elections edit

2011 edit

General Election 2011: Karaman[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AK Party
2 elected                               0
80,455 57.29  5.96
CHP
None elected
  • 1. Fikret Ünlü  N
    2. Osman Nuri Koçak  N
26,511 18.88  3.70
MHP
None elected                        1
  • 1. Hasan Çalış  N
    2. Hamza Koçak  N
25,642 18.26  0.40
SAADET
None elected
  • 1. Şaban Şahin  N
    2. Hüseyin Uğuz  N
2,707 1.93  1.11
HAS Party
None elected
  • 1. Abidin Çağlayan  N
    2. Mehmet Macit  N
1,455 1.04  1.04
Büyük Birlik
None elected
  • 1. Hüseyin Arı  N
    2. Durmuş Ataş  N
994 0.71  0.71
DP
None elected
  • 1. Mümtaz Kartal  N
    2. Yusuf Uğur  N
835 0.59  6.09
HEPAR
None elected
  • 1. Yücel Altun  N
    2. Saniye Kangooğlu  N
351 0.25  0.25
DYP
None elected
  • 1. Cihangir Kızıl  N
    2. Süleyman Levent  N
312 0.22  0.22
DSP
None elected
  • 1. Emir Musa Beydili  N
    2. Mehmet Şengül  N
309 0.22 N/A
Labour
None elected
  • 1. Esme Uyan  N
    2. Şerif Karataş  N
292 0.21  0.03
Nationalist Conservative
None elected
  • 1. Erkan Söker  N
    2. Nusret Başol  N
169 0.12  0.12
Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today)
None elected
  • 1. Nurhak Coşkun  N
    2. Rıza Tuna  N
165 0.12  0.08
MP
None elected
  • 1. Mustafa Sayar  N
    2. Salih Mısral  N
138 0.10  0.10
Liberal Democrat
None elected
  • 1. İlker Tekbaş  N
    2. Birhan Bora Erdoğan  N
107 0.07  0.18
Total votes 140,442 100.00
Rejected ballots 3,608 2.51  1.35
Turnout 143,603 90.02  0.34
AK Party hold
Majority
53,944 38.41  5.74

June 2015 edit

Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 80,042 55.5%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 32,876 22.8%
CHP Republican People's Party 22,366 15.5%
SP Felicity Party 4,037 2.8%
Other 4,832 3.4%
Total 144,153
Turnout 88.35
source: YSK

November 2015 edit

Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 94,321 64.6%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 23,692 16.2%
CHP Republican People's Party 22,088 15.1%
SP Felicity Party 1,426 1%
Other 4,449 3%
Total 145,976
Turnout 88.97
source: YSK

2018 edit

Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 80,498 52.6%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 22,826 14.9%
CHP Republican People's Party 24,608 16.1%
IYI Good Party 17,784 11.6%
SP Felicity Party 2,431 1.6%
Other 4,825 3.2%
Total 152,972
Turnout 90.39
source: YSK

Presidential elections edit

2014 edit

Presidential Election 2014: Karaman[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 88,813 66.22
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 43,093 32.13
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 2,212 1.65
Total votes 134,118 100.00
Rejected ballots 4,789 3.45
Turnout 165,590 83.89
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References edit

  1. ^ Milletvekili kesin aday listesi Sabah, 29 April 2011. (in Turkish) [dead link]
  2. ^ [1] Turkish electoral commission
  3. ^ 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) [dead link]

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