Diyarbakır (electoral district)

Diyarbakır
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Diyarbakır shown within Turkey
Province	Diyarbakır
Electorate	867,711
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	11 Historical 11 (1999)
Turnout at last election	81.26%^[1]
Representation
HDP	9 / 11
AK Party	2 / 11
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Diyarbakır is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects ten 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.

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.

MPs for Diyarbakır, 2002 onwards^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Election		2002 (22nd parliament)	2007 (23rd parliament)	2011 (24th parliament)	June 2015 (25th parliament)	Nov 2015 (26th parliament)
Election		2002 (22nd parliament)	2007 (23rd parliament)	2011 (24th parliament)	June 2015 (25th parliament)	Nov 2015 (26th parliament)
MP		Aziz Akgül AK Party	Kutbettin Arzu AK Party	Cuma İçten AK Party	Cevdet Yılmaz AK Party	Ebubekir Bal AK Party
MP		İhsan Arslan AK Party		Mehmet Galip Ensarioğlu AK Party	Edib Berk HDP	Mehmet Galip Ensarioğlu AK Party
MP		Oslam Arslan AK Party		Mehmet Süleyman Hamzaoğulları AK Party	Feleknas Uca HDP
MP		Mehmet Mehdi Eker AK Party			Çağlar Demirel HDP
MP		Ali İhsan Merdanoğlu AK Party		Mine Lök Beyaz AK Party	Ziya Pir HDP
MP		Cavit Torun AK Party	Abdurrahman Kurt AK Party	Oya Eronat AK Party	İmam Taşçıer HDP
MP		Mehmet Fehmi Uyanık AK Party	Akın Birdal Independent	Leyla Zana Independent	Sibel Yiğitalp HDP
MP		İrfan Riza Yazıcıoğlu AK Party	Selahattin Demirtaş Independent	Altan Tan Independent / HDP
MP		Mesut Değer CHP	Gülten Kışanak Independent	Emine Ayna Independent	İdris Baluken HDP
MP		Muhsin Koçyiğit CHP	Aysel Tuğluk Independent	Nursel Aydoğan Independent / HDP
MP	No seat			Şerafettin Elçi Independent / HDP	Nimetullah Erdoğmuş HDP

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Diyarbakır^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	410,390	64.17
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	214,115	33.48
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	15,015	2.35
Total votes			639,520	100.00
Rejected ballots			10,977	1.69
Turnout			650,497	70.20
	Selahattin Demirtaş win

References

Electoral districts of Turkey

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Aksaray Amasya Ankara (1st, 2nd) Antalya Ardahan Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bartın Batman Bayburt Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı Çorum Denizli Diyarbakır Düzce Edirne Elazığ Erzincan Erzurum Eskişehir Gaziantep Giresun Gümüşhane Hakkari Hatay Iğdır Isparta İstanbul (1st, 2nd, 3rd) İzmir (1st, 2nd) Kahramanmaraş Karabük Karaman Kars Kastamonu Kayseri Kırıkkale Kırklareli Kırşehir Kilis Kocaeli Konya Kütahya Malatya Manisa Mardin Mersin Muğla Muş Nevşehir Niğde Ordu Osmaniye Rize Sakarya Samsun Siirt Sinop Sivas Şanlıurfa Şırnak Tekirdağ Tokat Trabzon Tunceli Uşak Van Yalova Yozgat Zonguldak

Elections and referendums in Turkey

Presidential elections	2014

General elections	1923 1927 1931 1935 1939 1943 1946 1950 1954 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2002 2007 2011 2015 (Jun) 2015 (Nov) next

Local elections	1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1955 1963 1968 1973 1977 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019

Senate elections	1961 1964 1966 1968 1973 1975 1977 1979

Referendums	1961 1982 1987 1988 2007 2010 2017

By-elections	1986 2003

See also: Elections in the Ottoman Empire

Coordinates: 37°50′N 34°45′E / 37.833°N 34.750°E / 37.833; 34.750

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