Sivas (electoral district)

Sivas is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects two 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.

Sivas
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Sivas shown within Turkey
Province	Sivas
Electorate	431,792
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	5 Historical 6 (1999-2011) 7 (1995-1999) 6 (1991-1995) 7 (1983-1991) 8 (1977-1983) 9 (1973-1977) 10 (1969-1973) 11 (1965-1969) 11 (1961-1969) 15 (1957-1961) 14 (1954-1957)
MPs	List İsmet Yılmaz AKP Mesude Nursuna Memecan AKP Hilmi Bilgin AKP Ali Turan AKP Malik Ecder Özdemir CHP
Turnout at last election	86.79%
Representation
AK Party	3 / 5
MHP	1 / 5
CHP	1 / 5
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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. The number of seats allocated to Sivas has gradually fallen over the last half-century from a high of fifteen in the 1950s to four seats today.

MPs for Sivas, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP		Abdüllatif Şener FP		Abdüllatif Şener AK Party		Hamza Yerlikaya AK Party		İsmet Yılmaz AK Party
MP		Musa Demirci FP		Ömer Kulaksız AK Party		Mehmet Mustafa Açıkalın AK Party		Mesude Nursuna Memecan AK Party		Selim Dursun AK Party
MP		Temel Karamollaoğlu FP		Osman Kılıç AK Party				Hilmi Bilgin AK Party
MP		Hüsnü Yusuf Gökalp MHP		Selami Uzun AK Party				Ali Turan AK Party		Celal Dağgez MHP
MP		Mehmet Cengiz Güleç DSP		Nurettin Sözer CHP		Malik Ecder Özdemir CHP				Ali Akyıldız CHP
MP		Mehmet Ceylan MHP		Orhan Taş AK Party		Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Independent	Seat abolished

General elections

2011

2011 Turkish general election: Sivas^[1]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	AK Party	İsmet Yılmaz, Mesude Nursuna Memecan, Hilmi Bilgin, Ali Turan	234,505	63.34
	CHP	Malik Ecder Özdemir	56,534	15.27
	MHP	None elected	36,836	9.95
	Independent	Abdüllatif Şener	17,101	4.62
	Büyük Birlik	None elected	12,869	3.48
	SAADET	None elected	6,473	1.75
	HAS Party	None elected	2,178	0.59	N/A
	DP	None elected	1,048	0.28
	DSP	None elected	527	0.14	^[2]
	Labour	None elected	525	0.14
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	377	0.1
	DYP	None elected	363	0.1
	HEPAR	None elected	425	0.11
	TKP	None elected	299	0.08
	MP	None elected	127	0.03
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	73	0.02
Turnout			370,260	86.79

June 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	212,853	57.7%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	67,145	18.2%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	55,138	14.9%
	SP	Felicity Party	23,323	6.3%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	5,036	1.4%
		Other	5,478	1.5%
Total			368,973
Turnout			86.29
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	256,886	68.7%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	55,227	14.8%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	44,260	11.8%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	3,388	0.9%
	SP	Felicity Party	3,177	0.8%
		Other	11,022	2.9%
Total			373,960
Turnout			86.99
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	213,446	53.7%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	75,405	19%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	59,813	15.1%
	IYI	Good Party	27,292	6.9%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	6,863	1.7%
	SP	Felicity Party	7,052	1.8%
		Other	7,162	1.8%
Total			397,033
Turnout			89.83
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Sivas^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	246,868	69.99
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	101,578	28.80
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	4,297	1.22
Total votes			352,743	100.00
Rejected ballots			7,911	2.19
Turnout			360,654	81.17
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

1. [1] High Electoral Commission of Turkey
2. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
3. 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) ^{[dead link]}

39°32′N 37°24′E / 39.533°N 37.400°E / 39.533; 37.400