# Kocaeli (electoral district)

Kocaeli is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects fourteen 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. At the last election Kocaeli's seat allocation increased to eleven, having generally increased from a low of 4 MPs in 1969.
MPs for Kocaeli, 1999 onwards :
| Seat | | 1999 (21st parliament) | | 2002 (22nd parliament) | | 2007 (23rd parliament) | | 2011 (24th parliament) | | June 2015 (25th parliament) |
| 1 | | Meral Akşener DYP | | Nihat Ergün AKP | Nihat Ergün AKP | Nihat Ergün AKP | Nihat Ergün AKP | Nihat Ergün AKP | | Cemalettin Kaflı AKP |
| 2 | | Mehmet Batuk FP | | Muzaffer Baştopçu AKP | Muzaffer Baştopçu AKP | Muzaffer Baştopçu AKP | Muzaffer Baştopçu AKP | Muzaffer Baştopçu AKP | | Mehmet Akif Yılmaz AKP |
| 3 | | Vecdi Gönül FP | | Vecdi Gönül AKP | | Azize Sibel Gönül AKP | Azize Sibel Gönül AKP | Azize Sibel Gönül AKP | | Radiye Sezer Katırcıoğlu AKP |
| 4 | | Osman Pepe FP | | Osman Pepe AKP | Osman Pepe AKP | Osman Pepe AKP | | İlyas Şeker AKP | İlyas Şeker AKP | İlyas Şeker AKP |
| 5 | | Sefer Ekşi Anavatan | | Nevzat Doğan AKP | | Fikri Işık AKP | Fikri Işık AKP | Fikri Işık AKP | Fikri Işık AKP | Fikri Işık AKP |
| 6 | | Cumali Durmuş MHP | | Eyüp Ayar AKP | Eyüp Ayar AKP | Eyüp Ayar AKP | | Zeki Aygün AKP | Zeki Aygün AKP | Zeki Aygün AKP |
| 7 | | Kemal Köse MHP | | İzzet Çetin CHP | | Cumali Durmuş MHP | | Mustafa Sait Gönen MHP | | Saffet Sancaklı MHP |
| 8 | | Ahmet Arkan DSP | | Mehmet Sefa Sirmen CHP | | Hikmet Erenkaya CHP | | Hurşit Güneş CHP | | Tahsin Tarhan CHP |
| 9 | | Halil Çalık DSP | | Salih Gün CHP | | Mehmet Cevdet Selvi CHP | | Mehmet Hilal Kaplan CHP | | Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet CHP |
| 10 | | Muhammet Turhan İmamoğlu DSP | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | | Haydar Akar CHP | Haydar Akar CHP | Haydar Akar CHP |
| 11 | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | | Mehmet Ali Okur AKP | | Ali Haydar Konca HDP |

## General elections
### 2011

Unelected candidates in small text.
2011 Turkish general election: Kocaeli :
| List | List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. |
| | AK Party | Nihat Ergün, Fikri Işık, Azize Sibel Gönül, Muzaffer Baştopçu, Zeki Aygün, İlyas Şeker, Mehmet Ali Okur | 504,535 | 52.71 | |
| | CHP | Hurşit Güneş, Mehmet Hilal Kaplan, Haydar Akar | 235,770 | 24.63 | |
| | MHP | Lütfü Türkkan | 114,304 | 11.94 | |
| | SAADET | None elected | 41,870 | 4.37 | |
| | Independent | None elected | 22,153 | 2.31 | |
| | HAS Party | None elected | 14,939 | 1.56 | N/A |
| | DP | None elected | 5995 | 0.63 | |
| | Büyük Birlik | None elected | 5615 | 0.59 | |
| | HEPAR | None elected | 3796 | 0.40 | |
| | DSP | None elected | 2414 | 0.25 | '"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000D−QINU`"' |
| | DYP | None elected | 1859 | 0.19 | |
| | MP | None elected | 1716 | 0.18 | |
| | TKP | None elected | 1452 | 0.15 | |
| | Nationalist Conservative | None elected | 759 | 0.08 | |
| | Labour | None elected | 0 | | |
| | Liberal Democrat | None elected | 0 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,096,593 | 89.16 | |

### June 2015

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | AKP | Justice and Development Party | 487,781 | 46.3% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 256,678 | 24.4% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 161,492 | 15.3% |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 77,562 | 7.4% |
| | | Other | 69,248 | 6.6% |
| Total | Total | Total | 1,052,761 | 1,052,761 | 1,052,761 | 1,052,761 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 88.08 | 88.08 | 88.08 | 88.08 |
| source:YSK |||||

### November 2015

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | AKP | Justice and Development Party | 621,198 | 56.5% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 257,810 | 23.4% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 123,662 | 11.2% |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 60,722 | 5.5% |
| | | Other | 36,388 | 3.3% |
| Total | Total | Total | 1,099,780 | 1,099,780 | 1,099,780 | 1,099,780 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 89.90 | 89.90 | 89.90 | 89.90 |
| source:YSK |||||

### 2018

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | AKP | Justice and Development Party | 556,671 | 47.3% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 235,465 | 20% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 132,452 | 11.3% |
| | IYI | Good Party | 122,645 | 10.4% |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 82,860 | 7% |
| | SP | Felicity Party | 25,950 | 2.2% |
| | | Other | 19,619 | 1.7% |
| Total | Total | Total | 1,175,662 | 1,175,662 | 1,175,662 | 1,175,662 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 89.84 | 89.84 | 89.84 | 89.84 |
| source:YSK |||||

## Presidential elections
### 2014

Presidential Election 2014: Kocaeli :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | AK Party | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 521,489 | 58.54 |
| | Independent | Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu | 320,516 | 35.98 |
| | HDP | Selahattin Demirtaş | 48,893 | 5.49 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 890,898 | 100.00 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 21,952 | 2.40 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 912,850 | 77.02 |
| | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win |