Şanlıurfa (electoral district)
Şanlıurfa is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects twelve members of parliament 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. 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 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.
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| 1 | Yahya Akman FP | Yahya Akman AK Party | Yahya Akman AK Party | Yahya Akman AK Party | Yahya Akman AK Party | Yahya Akman AK Party | Nureddin Nebati AK Party | ||||
| 2 | Mehmet Fevzi Şıhanlıoğlu DYP | Mahmut Kaplan AK Party | Abdulkadir Emin Önen AK Party | Abdulkadir Emin Önen AK Party | Abdulkadir Emin Önen AK Party | Mazhar Bağlı AK Party | |||||
| 3 | Zülfikar İzol FP | Zülfikar İzol AK Party | Zülfikar İzol AK Party | Zülfikar İzol AK Party | Abdülkerim Gök AK Party | Hamide Sürücü AK Party | |||||
| 4 | Sedat Edip Bucak DYP | Abdurrahman Müfit Yetkin AK Party | Abdurrahman Müfit Yetkin AK Party | 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 Independent / AK Party | Seyit Eyyüpoğlu Independent / AK Party | Seyit Eyyüpoğlu Independent / AK Party | Seyit Eyyüpoğlu Independent / AK Party | Seyit Eyyüpoğlu Independent / AK Party | ||||
| 6 | Necmettin Cevheri DYP | Mehmet Faruk Bayrak AK Party | Ramazan Başak AK Party | Halil Özcan AK Party | Halil Özcan AK Party | Halil Özcan AK Party | |||||
| 7 | Ahmet Karavar FP | Mehmet Özlek AK Party | Sabahttin Cevheri AK Party | Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar AK Party | Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar AK Party | Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar AK Party | |||||
| 8 | Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar Anavatan | 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 FP | Sabahattin Cevheri Independent | Çağla Aktemur Özyavuz AK Party | Faruk Çelik AK Party | Ziya Çalışkan HDP | ||||||
| 11 | Mehmet Güneş Anavatan | Turan Tüysüz CHP | İbrahim Binici Independent | İbrahim Binici Independent | İbrahim Binici Independent | Leyla Güven HDP | |||||
| 12 | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | İbrahim Ayhan Independent / HDP | İbrahim Ayhan Independent / HDP | İbrahim Ayhan Independent / HDP |