Ordu (electoral district)

Ordu is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects six 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.

Ordu
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Ordu highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Ordu shown within Turkey
ProvinceOrdu
Electorate508,530
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats6
Historical
  • 5 (2015-2018)
    6 (2011-2015)
    7 (1999-2011)
    8 (1995-1999)
    6 (1991-1995)
    7 (1987-1991)
    6 (1983-1987)
    7 (1977-1983)
    8 (1961-1977)
    10 (1957-1961)
    9 (1954-1957)
MPs
List
Turnout at last election83.66%
AK Party
3 / 6
CHP
2 / 6
MHP
1 / 6

The capital of the province is the city of Ordu.

Members

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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.

Ordu is a borderline electoral district, with its representation varying between six and eight members since the late 1970s. As of the 2011 general election it has elected six members, down from seven seats at the previous election.

Ordu is the seat of the former Interior Minister, İdris Naim Şahin.

MPs for Ordu, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Hasan Fehmi Konyalı
DSP
Cemal Uysal
AK Party
Mustafa Hamarat
AK Party
Numan Kurtulmuş
AK Party
MP İhsan Çabuk
DSP
Enver Yılmaz
AK Party
İdris Naim Şahin
AK Party / MİLAD
Oktay Çanak
AK Party
MP Yener Yıldırım
DYP
Mehmet Hilmi Güler
AK Party
İhsan Şener
AK Party
MP Eyüp Fatsa
FP
Eyüp Fatsa
AK Party
Fatih Han Ünal
AK Party
No seat
MP Sefer Koçak
Anavatan
Hamit Taşçı
AK Party
Ayhan Yılmaz
AK Party
Harun Çakır
AK Party
Seyit Torun
CHP
MP Şükrü Yürür
Anavatan
İdris Sami Tandoğdu
CHP
Rahmi Güner
CHP
İdris Yıldız
CHP
Mustafa Adıgüzel
CHP
MP Cemal Enginyurt
MHP
Kazım Türkmen
CHP
Rıdvan Yalçın
MHP
No seat

General elections

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2011

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2011 Turkish general election: Ordu[1]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
AK Party İdris Naim Şahin, Mustafa Hamarat, Fatih Han Ünal, İhsan Şener, Harun Çakır 251,319 60.21
CHP İdris Yıldız 94,353 22.61
MHP None elected 48,647 11.66
HAS Party None elected 6208 1.49 N/A
SAADET None elected 3698 0.89
Independents None elected 3281 0.79
DP None elected 2543 0.61
Büyük Birlik None elected 1760 0.42
DSP None elected 1402 0.34 '"`UNIQ−−ref−00000009−QINU`"'
Labour None elected 1048 0.25
HEPAR None elected 794 0.19
DYP None elected 702 0.17
Nationalist Conservative None elected 467 0.11
TKP None elected 467 0.11
MP None elected 410 0.1
Liberal Democrat None elected 283 0.07
Turnout 417,382 83.66

Presidential elections

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2014

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Presidential Election 2014: Ordu[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 245,857 66.98
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 69,119 31.61
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 5,186 1.41
Total votes 367,076 100.00
Rejected ballots 7,913 2.11
Turnout 374,989 70.21
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

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  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]

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