Batman (electoral district)

For the Australian electoral division, see Division of Batman.

Batman is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects four 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.

Batman
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Batman shown within Turkey
Province	Batman
Electorate	270,392
Current electoral district
Created	1991
Seats	4
Turnout at last election	83.82%^[1]
Representation
HDP	3 / 4
AKP	1 / 4
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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. Batman became an electoral district for the 1991 general election and has continuously elected four MPs.

MPs for Batman, 2002 onwards^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Election		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)		Nov 2015 (26th parliament)
MP		Afif Demirkıran AK Party		Mehmet Emin Ekmen AK Party		Ziver Özdemir AK Party				Ataullah Hamidi AK Party
MP		Ahmet İnal AK Party				Mehmet Şimşek AK Party		Ali Atalan HDP		Mehmet Ali Aslan HDP
MP		Mehmet Ali Suçin AK Party		Ayla Akat Ata Independent		Ayla Akat Ata HDP		Saadet Becerekli HDP
MP		Mehmet Nezir Nasıroğlu CHP		Bengi Yıldız Independent		Bengi Yıldız HDP		Ayşe Acar Başaran HDP

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: Batman^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	2 elected                               0 Bengi Yıldız  Y Ayla Akat Ata  Y	113,378	51.48	12.06
	AKP	2 elected                               0 1. Mehmet Şimşek  Y 2. Ziver Özdemir  Y 3. Ayhan İsen  N 4. Mustafa Demir  N	81,778	37.13	9.28
	CHP	None elected 1. Faris Özdemir  N 2. Mehmet Can Avcı  N 3. Mehmet İhsan Erman  N 4. Vehbi Ağaya  N	14,754	6.70	2.79
	BBP	None elected 1. Recep Er  N 2. Ecevit Bayralı  N 3. Medeni Orhan  N 4. Şahabettin Gün  N	3,282	1.49	1.49
	Felicity	None elected 1. Salih Sevim  N 2. Ahmet Çiftçi  N 3. Mustafa Yıldız  N 4. İbrahim Güneş  N	2,156	0.98	0.94
	MHP	None elected 1. İsa Boran  N 2. Nihat Ercan  N 3. Mehmet Aktaş  N 4. Mehmet Ali Acar  N	1,281	0.58	0.35
	DP	None elected 1. Murat Şentürk  N 2. Esen Sarı  N 3. Ahmet Güneş  N 4. Mehmet Ramazan Kebabcılar  N	930	0.42	5.34
	HAS Party	None elected 1. Osman Bağaç  N 2. Kenan Özoğul  N 3. Özlem Şahin Ermiş  N 4. Mehmet Metin Emen  N	873	0.40	0.40
	DSP	None elected 1. Kadri Yaman  N 2. Üzeyir Çelik  N 3. Mehmet Tahir Türk  N 4. Yusuf Yalçın  N	720	0.33	N/A
	Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today)	None elected 1. Oya Sönmez  N 2. Başak Yaman  N 3. Evrim Kaya  N 4. Cüneyt Arslan  N	460	0.21	0.12
	DYP	None elected 1. Abdulvehap Uruk  N 2. Hanifi Taşdemir  N 3. Osman Cengiz  N 4. Mahşuk Özcan  N	188	0.09	0.09
	Liberal Democrat	None elected 1. Aziz Polat  N 2. Mehmet Emin Yıldırım  N 3. Rifat Aksoy  N 4. Saadet Polat  N	167	0.08	0.07
	Nation	None elected 1. Mehmet Göktekin  N 2. Nazmi Filiz  N 3. İbrahim Çelik  N 4. Nurcan Has  N	155	0.07	0.07
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected 1. Veysel Özel  N 2. Orhan Yıldırım  N 3. Nevzat Demir  N 4. Zeki Sürgün  N	112	0.05	0.05
	HEPAR	No candidates	0	0.00	0.00
	Labour	No candidates	0	0.00	0.00
Total votes			220,234	100.00
Rejected ballots			6,774	2.99	1.37
Turnout			226,642	83.82	8.08
	Independent gain from AKP Majority		31,600	14.35	21.34

June 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	191,310	72.6%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	47,921	18.2%
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	14,551	5.5%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	2,752	1%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	2,083	0.8%
		Other	4,986	1.9%
Total			263,604
Turnout			90.25
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	177,129	68.1%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	73,775	28.4%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	3,101	1.2%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	1,654	0.6%
		Other	4,254	1.6%
Total			259,913
Turnout			85.84
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	180,318	63.5%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	67,789	23.9%
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	15,998	5.6%
	SP	Felicity Party	8,971	3.2%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	3,740	1.3%
	IYI	Good Party	3,127	1.1%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	2,833	1%
		Other	1,284	0.5%
Total			284,060
Turnout			85.67
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Batman^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	134,370	60.00
	AKP	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	85,153	38.02
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	4,424	1.98
Total votes			223,947	100.00
Rejected ballots			3,799	1.67
Turnout			227,746	75.71
	Selahattin Demirtaş win

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

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