Sinop (electoral district)

Sinop 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.

Sinop
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Sinop shown within Turkey
Province	Sinop
Electorate	151,004
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	2 Historical 3 (1973-2011) 4 (1961-1973) 6 (1954-1961)
MPs	List Mehmet Ersoy AK Party Engin Altay CHP
Turnout at last election	86.15%
Representation
AK Party	1 / 2
CHP	1 / 2
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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 Sinop has gradually fallen over the last half-century from a high of six in the 1950s to just two seats today.

MPs for Sinop, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP		Yaşar Topçu DYP		Cahit Can AK Party		Abdurrahman Dodurgalı AK Party		Mehmet Ersoy AK Party		Cengiz Tokmak AK Party
MP		Metin Bostancıoğlu DSP		Engin Altay CHP						Barış Karadeniz CHP
MP		Kadir Bozkurt Motherland		Mustafa Öztürk AK Party		Kadir Tıngıroğlu AK Party	Seat abolished

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: Sinop

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AK Party	1 elected                              1 1. Mehmet Ersoy Y 2. İbrahim Felek N	69,587	54.92	10.88
	CHP	1 elected                              0 1. Engin Altay Y 2. Abdullah Şişek N	39,264	30.99	6.63
	MHP	None elected 1. Metin Oktay Fındık N 2. Nazım Demiray N	10,486	8.28	4.04
	SAADET	None elected 1. Hüseyin Cavit Üçüncüoğlu N 2. İsmail Teziç N	1,445	1.14	0.71
	HAS Party	None elected 1. Recep Büyükkayıkçı N 2. Hüseyin Şen N	1,336	1.05	1.05
	DP	None elected 1. Rahmi Özdemir N 2. Hamdi Kabaer N	1,000	0.79	8.28
	HEPAR	None elected 1. Fehmi Arslan N 2. Kemal Yılmaz N	971	0.77	0.77
	DSP	None elected 1. Davut Çalhan N 2. Hilmi Kara N	538	0.42	N/A
	Labour	None elected 1. Yaşar Aydın N 2. Ekrem Yıldırım N	496	0.39	0.07
	Büyük Birlik	None elected 1. Ali Doğan N 2. Ahmet Çetin N	402	0.32	0.32
	DYP	None elected 1. Gürhan Rahmi Koçbay N 2. Mustafa Çalım N	326	0.26	0.26
	MP	None elected 1. İsmail Ergün N 2. Halil Ergün N	267	0.21	0.21
	TKP	None elected 1. Hüseyin Murat Yurttaş N 2. Etkin Bilan Eratalay N	245	0.19	0.10
	Liberal Democrat	None elected 1. Serdar Aktan N 2. Ayhan Topçu N	182	0.14	0.28
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected 1. Murat Altın N 2. Çetin Ural N	155	0.12	0.12
Total votes			126,700	100.00
Rejected ballots			3,392	2.61	1.09
Turnout			130,092	86.15	1.24

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Sinop

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	74,181	61.19
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	44,840	36.99
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	2,200	1.81
Total votes			121,221	100.00
Rejected ballots			2,921	2.35
Turnout			124,142	79.04
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win