Kocaeli (electoral district)

Electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Kocaeli

electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Kocaeli shown within Turkey

Province| Kocaeli
Electorate| 1,096,593
Current electoral district
Created| 1920
Seats| 11

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

* Nihat Ergün AKP
Fikri Işık AKP
Azize Sibel Gönül AKP
Muzaffer Baştopçu AKP
Zeki Aygün AKP
İlyas Şeker AKP
Mehmet Ali Okur AKP
Hurşit Güneş CHP
Mehmet Hilal Kaplan CHP
Haydar Akar CHP
Lütfü Türkkan MHP

Turnout at last election| 89.16%

Representation

AK Party|

6 / 11

CHP|

3 / 11

MHP|

1 / 11

HDP|

1 / 11

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Electoral districts of Kocaeli province

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.

## Members

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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

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

## General elections

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### 2011

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Unelected candidates in small text.

2011 Turkish general election: Kocaeli[1]

List  | Candidates  | Votes  | Of total (%)  | ± from prev.
| AK Party | Nihat Ergün, Fikri Işık, Azize Sibel Gönül, Muzaffer Baştopçu, Zeki Aygün, İlyas Şeker, Mehmet Ali Okur  | 504,535  | 52.71  |
| CHP | Hurşit Güneş, Mehmet Hilal Kaplan, Haydar Akar  | 235,770  | 24.63  |
| MHP | Lütfü Türkkan  | 114,304  | 11.94  |
| SAADET | None elected | 41,870  | 4.37  |
| Independent | None elected | 22,153  | 2.31  |
| HAS Party | None elected | 14,939  | 1.56  | N/A
| DP | None elected | 5995  | 0.63  |
| Büyük Birlik | None elected | 5615  | 0.59  |
| HEPAR | None elected | 3796  | 0.40  |
| DSP | None elected | 2414  | 0.25  | '"`UNIQ−−ref−00000009−QINU`"'
| DYP | None elected | 1859  | 0.19  |
| MP | None elected | 1716  | 0.18  |
| TKP | None elected | 1452  | 0.15  |
| Nationalist Conservative | None elected | 759  | 0.08  |
| Labour | None elected | 0  |  |
| Liberal Democrat | None elected | 0  |  |
Turnout | 1,096,593  | 89.16  |

### June 2015

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Abbr. | Party  | Votes  | %

|
|
|

| AKP  | Justice and Development Party | 487,781 | 46.3%
| CHP  | Republican People's Party | 256,678  | 24.4%
| MHP  | Nationalist Movement Party | 161,492  | 15.3%
| HDP  | Peoples' Democratic Party | 77,562  | 7.4%
|  | Other  | 69,248  | 6.6%
Total  | 1,052,761
Turnout | 88.08
source:YSK[3]

### November 2015

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Abbr. | Party  | Votes  | %

|
|
|

| AKP  | Justice and Development Party | 621,198 | 56.5%
| CHP  | Republican People's Party | 257,810  | 23.4%
| MHP  | Nationalist Movement Party | 123,662  | 11.2%
| HDP  | Peoples' Democratic Party | 60,722  | 5.5%
|  | Other  | 36,388  | 3.3%
Total  | 1,099,780
Turnout | 89.90
source:YSK[4]

### 2018

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Abbr. | Party  | Votes  | %

|
|
|

| AKP  | Justice and Development Party | 556,671 | 47.3%
| CHP  | Republican People's Party | 235,465  | 20%
| MHP  | Nationalist Movement Party | 132,452  | 11.3%
| IYI  | Good Party | 122,645  | 10.4%
| HDP  | Peoples' Democratic Party | 82,860  | 7%
| SP  | Felicity Party | 25,950  | 2.2%
|  | Other  | 19,619  | 1.7%
Total  | 1,175,662
Turnout | 89.84
source:YSK[5]

## Presidential elections

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### 2014

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Presidential Election 2014: Kocaeli[6] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %

|
|
|

| AK Party | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 521,489  | 58.54
| Independent | Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu | 320,516  | 35.98
| HDP | Selahattin Demirtaş | 48,893  | 5.49
Total votes | 890,898  | 100.00
Rejected ballots  | 21,952  | 2.40
Turnout | 912,850  | 77.02
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

## References

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1. ^ [1] Turkish electoral commission
2. ^ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
3. ^ [2]
4. ^ [3]
5. ^ [4]
6. ^ 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) [dead link]

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