İstanbul (electoral districts)

İstanbul is a Turkish province divided into three electoral districts of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eighty-five 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.

The first district is situated on the Anatolian side of İstanbul on the east of the Bosphorus. The second and third electoral district are both on the European side, with the third situated to the west of the second. The first district, electing 30 MPs, is the largest electoral district of Turkey in terms of members elected.

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. İstanbul has the largest number of allocated seats and also the largest number of electoral districts within its provincial boundaries.

The province's administrative districts (ilçe) are divided among three electoral districts as follows:^[1]

The three electoral districts of İstanbul

  First electoral district (30 MPs)

  Second electoral district (27 MPs)

  Third electoral district (28 MPs)

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: İstanbul
Party		Candidates standing				Votes			Seats won
		1st	2nd	3rd	Total	Number	%	swing	1st	2nd	3rd	Total elected	change ±
	AK Party	30	27	28	85	3,931,210	49.38	4.22	16	15	15	46 / 85	7
	CHP	30	27	28	85	2,492,910	31.31	4.32	11	9	9	29 / 85	7
	MHP	30	27	28	85	747,666	9.39	1.05	2	2	3	7 / 85	0
	Independents	12	8	10	30	425,417	5.34	0.53	1	1	1	3 / 85	1
	Felicity	30	27	28	85	129,030	1.62	1.41	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	HAS Party	30	27	28	85	57,399	0.72	0.72	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	BBP	30	27	28	85	50,023	0.63	0.63	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Democrat	30	27	28	85	33,122	0.42	2.66	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	HEPAR	30	27	28	85	32,740	0.41	0.41	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Democratic Left	30	27	28	85	19,489	0.24	N/A	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Communist	30	27	28	85	16,626	0.21	0.01	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Nation	30	27	28	85	14,831	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Nationalist Conservative	30	27	28	85	4,321	0.05	0.05	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Liberal Democrat	30	27	28	85	3,364	0.04	0.01	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	DYP	30	0	0	30	2,759	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Labour	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
Total						7,960,907	100.00		30	27	28	85	15
Rejected ballots						175,733	2.17	2.86
Turnout						8,112,340	86.32	4.33
	AK Party hold Majority					1,436,300	18.04	0.13

Presidential elections

2014

References

Electoral districts of Turkey
Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Aksaray Amasya Ankara (1st, 2nd) Antalya Ardahan Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bartın Batman Bayburt Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı Çorum Denizli Diyarbakır Düzce Edirne Elazığ Erzincan Erzurum Eskişehir Gaziantep Giresun Gümüşhane Hakkari Hatay Iğdır Isparta İstanbul (1st, 2nd, 3rd) İzmir (1st, 2nd) Kahramanmaraş Karabük Karaman Kars Kastamonu Kayseri Kırıkkale Kırklareli Kırşehir Kilis Kocaeli Konya Kütahya Malatya Manisa Mardin Mersin Muğla Muş Nevşehir Niğde Ordu Osmaniye Rize Sakarya Samsun Siirt Sinop Sivas Şanlıurfa Şırnak Tekirdağ Tokat Trabzon Tunceli Uşak Van Yalova Yozgat Zonguldak

Elections and referendums in Turkey
Presidential elections	2014
General elections	1923 1927 1931 1935 1939 1943 1946 1950 1954 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2002 2007 2011 2015 (Jun) 2015 (Nov) next
Local elections	1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1955 1963 1968 1973 1977 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019
Senate elections	1961 1964 1966 1968 1973 1975 1977 1979
Referendums	1961 1982 1987 1988 2007 2010 2017
By-elections	1986 2003
See also: Elections in the Ottoman Empire

Coordinates: 41°10′N 28°45′E / 41.167°N 28.750°E / 41.167; 28.750