Rize (electoral district)

Rize
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Rize shown within Turkey
Province Rize
Electorate 196,854
Current electoral district
Created 1920
Seats

3

MPs
Turnout at last election 87.96%
AK Party
3 / 3

Rize 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.

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.

As a small electoral district, Rize's seat allocation has oscillated between three and four seats over the last two decades.

Rize was the district from which former prime minister Mesut Yılmaz was elected, first for his Anavatan and later as an independent.

MPs for Rize, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Mesut Yılmaz
Anavatan
Abdülkadir Kart
AK Party
Mesut Yılmaz
Independent
Hayati Yazıcı
AK Party
Hikmet Ayar
AK Party
MP Ahmet Kabil
Anavatan
İlyas Çakır
AK Party
Bayram Ali Bayramoğlu
AK Party
Hasan Karal
AK Party
MP Mehmet Bekaroğlu
FP
İmdat Sütlüoğlu
AK Party
Lütfi Çırakoğlu
AK Party
Nusret Bayraktar
AK Party
Osman Aşkın Bak
AK Party

General elections

2011

Turkish general election, 2011: Rize[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±
AK Party Hayati Yazıcı, Hasan Karal, Nusret Bayraktar 134,549 68.91
CHP None elected 33,408 17.11
MHP None elected 14,929 7.65
Felicity None elected 6241 3.20
HAS Party None elected 1743 0.89
Democrat None elected 1142 0.58
BBP None elected 806 0.41
Independent None elected 679 0.35
HEPAR None elected 481 0.25
Democratic Left None elected 348 0.18 [2]
Labour None elected 239 0.12
DYP None elected 206 0.11
Nationalist Conservative None elected 184 0.09
Turkish Communists None elected 157 0.08
Liberal Democrat None elected 79 0.04
Nation None elected 66 0.03
Turnout 195,257 85.06

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Rize[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 148,641 80.57
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 33,708 18.27
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 2,137 1.16
Total votes 184,486 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,584 1.91
Turnout 188,070 76.61
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

  1. Electoral Commission
  2. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  3. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

Coordinates: 41°00′N 41°00′E / 41.000°N 41.000°E / 41.000; 41.000

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