# Şanlıurfa (electoral district)

Şanlıurfa is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects twelve 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.

## 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. Şanlıurfa is one of the largest in southeast Turkey, sending twelve members to Ankara.
The overwhelming majority of members are from the governing party. Şanlıurfa is a district where the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) ran independent candidates in an attempt to overcome the 10 percent national electoral threshold. One such independent candidates was elected here in 2011 and has joined the BDP; another independent candidate was also elected.
MPs for Şanlıurfa, 1999 onwards :
| Seat | | 1999 (21st parliament) | | 2002 (22nd parliament) | | 2007 (23rd parliament) | | 2011 (24th parliament) | | June 2015 (25th parliament) |
| 1 | | Yahya Akman Virtue | | Yahya Akman AK Party | Yahya Akman AK Party | Yahya Akman AK Party | Yahya Akman AK Party | Yahya Akman AK Party | | Nureddin Nebati AK Party |
| 2 | | Mehmet Fevzi Şıhanlıoğlu DYP | | Mahmut Kaplan AK Party | | Abdulkadir Emin Önen AK Party | Abdulkadir Emin Önen AK Party | Abdulkadir Emin Önen AK Party | | Mazhar Bağlı AK Party |
| 3 | | Zülfikar İzol Virtue | | Zülfikar İzol AK Party | Zülfikar İzol AK Party | Zülfikar İzol AK Party | | Abdülkerim Gök AK Party | | Hamide Sürücü AK Party |
| 4 | | Sedat Edip Bucak DYP | | Abdurrahman Müfit Yetkin AK Party | Abdurrahman Müfit Yetkin AK Party | Abdurrahman Müfit Yetkin AK Party | | Mehmet Akyürek AK Party | | Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba AK Party |
| 5 | | Mehmet Yalçınkaya DYP | | Mehmet Atılla Maraş AK Party | | Seyit Eyyüpoğlu Independent / AK Party | Seyit Eyyüpoğlu Independent / AK Party | Seyit Eyyüpoğlu Independent / AK Party | Seyit Eyyüpoğlu Independent / AK Party | Seyit Eyyüpoğlu Independent / AK Party |
| 6 | | Necmettin Cevheri DYP | | Mehmet Faruk Bayrak AK Party | | Ramazan Başak AK Party | | Halil Özcan AK Party | Halil Özcan AK Party | Halil Özcan AK Party |
| 7 | | Ahmet Karavar Virtue | | Mehmet Özlek AK Party | | Sabahttin Cevheri AK Party | | Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar AK Party | Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar AK Party | Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar AK Party |
| 8 | | Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar Motherland | | Mehmet Vedat Melik CHP | | Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar AK Party | | Mahmut Kaçar AK Party | | Dilek Öcalan HDP |
| 9 | | Muzaffer Çakmaklı MHP | | Mahmut Yıldız CHP | | Mustafa Kuş AK Party | | Zeynep Armağan Uslu AK Party | | Osman Baydemir HDP |
| 10 | | Mustafa Niyazi Yanmaz Virtue | | Sabahattin Cevheri Independent | | Çağla Aktemur Özyavuz AK Party | | Faruk Çelik AK Party | | Ziya Çalışkan HDP |
| 11 | | Mehmet Güneş Motherland | | Turan Tüysüz CHP | | İbrahim Binici Independent (DTP/BDP) | İbrahim Binici Independent (DTP/BDP) | İbrahim Binici Independent (DTP/BDP) | | Leyla Güven HDP |
| 12 | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | | İbrahim Ayhan Independent (BDP) / HDP | İbrahim Ayhan Independent (BDP) / HDP | İbrahim Ayhan Independent (BDP) / HDP |

## General elections
### 2011

2011 Turkish general election: Şanlıurfa :
| List | List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. |
| | AK Party | Faruk Çelik, Seyit Eyyüpoğlu, Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar, Mehmet Akyürek, Zeynep Armağan Uslu, Halil Özcan, Mahmur Kaçar, Abdulkadir Emin Önen, Yahya Akman, Abdulkerim Gök | 430,453 | 63.46 | |
| | Independent | İbrahim Ayhan | 77,416 | 11.41 | |
| | Independent | İbrahim Binici | 42,463 | 22.84 | |
| | Independent | Ahmet Ersin Bucak (not elected) | 31,090 | 4.58 | |
| | MHP | None elected | 22,357 | 3.30 | |
| | CHP | None elected | 21,777 | 3.21 | |
| | Other independents | None elected | 18,445 | 2.72 | |
| | Independent | Zülfikar İzol (not elected) | 14,724 | 2.17 | |
| | Büyük Birlik | None elected | 6,220 | 0.92 | |
| | HAS Party | None elected | 5,925 | 0.87 | N/A |
| | SAADET | None elected | 3,382 | 0.5 | |
| | DP | None elected | 1,743 | 0.26 | |
| | TKP | None elected | 1,235 | 0.18 | |
| | DSP | None elected | 700 | 0.1 | '"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000E−QINU`"' |
| | DYP | None elected | 598 | 0.09 | |
| | Nationalist Conservative | None elected | 555 | 0.08 | |
| | MP | None elected | 426 | 0.06 | |
| | Labour | None elected | 0 | | |
| | Liberal Democrat | None elected | 0 | | |
| | HEPAR | None elected | 0 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 678,286 | 82.14 | |

### June 2015

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 356,537 | 46.7% |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 293,841 | 38.5% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 31,273 | 4.1% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 42,479 | 5.6% |
| | | Other | 39,250 | 5.1% |
| Total | Total | Total | 763,380 | 763,380 | 763,380 | 763,380 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 80.21 | 80.21 | 80.21 | 80.21 |
| source: YSK |||||

### November 2015

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 519,079 | 64.6% |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 228,807 | 28.5% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 21,686 | 2.7% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 22,086 | 2.7% |
| | | Other | 12,228 | 1.5% |
| Total | Total | Total | 803,885 | 803,885 | 803,885 | 803,885 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 83,77 | 83,77 | 83,77 | 83,77 |
| source: YSK |||||

### 2018

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 440,085 | 52.2% |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 247,256 | 29.3% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 77,479 | 9.2% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 28,880 | 3.4% |
| | IYI | Good Party | 14,965 | 1.8% |
| | HÜDA-PAR | Free Cause Party | 13,495 | 1.6% |
| | SP | Felicity Party | 10,913 | 1.3% |
| | | Other | 10,788 | 1.3% |
| Total | Total | Total | 843,861 | 843,861 | 843,861 | 843,861 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 81.48 | 81.48 | 81.48 | 81.48 |
| source: YSK |||||

### 2023

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 424.999 | 43% |
| | YSGP | Party of Greens and the Left Future | 245.500 | 24.8% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 93.267 | 9.4% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 79.539 | 8% |
| | | Independent | 51.399 | 5.2% |
| | IYI | Good Party | 45.097 | 4.6% |
| | YRP | New Welfare Party | 28.949 | 2.9% |
| | | Other | 20.404 | 2.1% |
| Total | Total | Total | 999.527 | 999.527 | 999.527 | 999.527 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 81.82% | 81.82% | 81.82% | 81.82% |
| source: YSK |||||

## Presidential elections
### 2014

Presidential Election 2014: Şanlıurfa :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | AK Party | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 455,170 | 68.60 |
| | HDP | Selahattin Demirtaş | 174,075 | 26.24 |
| | Independent | Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu | 34,251 | 5.16 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 663,496 | 100.00 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 7,933 | 1.18 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 671,429 | 71.86 |
| | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win |