# Van (electoral district)

Van is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eight 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. Van's seat allocation has gradually increased over the last sixty years, from three seats in 1957 to eight seats today.
There are currently eight sitting members of parliament representing Van, one of which is from the governing party. Van was 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. Four independent candidates were elected here in 2011; two have since joined the BDP.
MPs for Van since 1999 :
| Seat | | 1999 (21st parliament) | | 2002 (22nd parliament) | | 2007 (23rd parliament) | | 2011 (24th parliament) | | June 2015 (25th parliament) |
| MP | | Hüseyin Çelik DYP | | Hüseyin Çelik AK Party | Hüseyin Çelik AK Party | Hüseyin Çelik AK Party | | Burhan Kayatürk AK Party | Burhan Kayatürk AK Party | Burhan Kayatürk AK Party |
| MP | | Fetullah Gültepe DYP | | Cüneyt Karabıyık AK Party | | Gülşen Orhan AK Party | Gülşen Orhan AK Party | Gülşen Orhan AK Party | | Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu HDP |
| MP | | Fethullah Erbaş Virtue | | Hacı Biner AK Party | | İkram Dinçer AK Party | | Fatih Çiftçi AK Party | | Yurdusev Özsökmenler HDP |
| MP | | Maliki Ejder Arvas Virtue | | Maliki Ejder Arvas AK Party | | Kerem Altun AK Party | | Mustafa Bilicir AK Party | | Adem Özcaner HDP |
| MP | | Mustafa Bayram Virtue | | Asuman Yekta Haydaroğlu AK Party | | Kayhan Türkmenoğlu AK Party | | Kemal Aktaş Independent | | Tuğba Hezer Öztürk HDP |
| MP | | Kamran İnan Motherland | | Halil Kaya AK Party | | Fatma Kurtulan Independent | | Aysel Tuğluk Independent | | Selami Özyaşar HDP |
| MP | | Ayhan Çevik MHP | | Mehmet Kartal CHP | | Özdal Üçer Independent (DTP/BDP) | Özdal Üçer Independent (DTP/BDP) | Özdal Üçer Independent (DTP/BDP) | | Remzi Özgökçe HDP |
| MP | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | No seat | | Nazmi Gür Independent (BDP) | | Lezgin Botan HDP |

## General elections
### 2011

Elected candidates in bold
2011 Turkish general election: Van :
| List | List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. |
| | AK Party | Burhan Kayatürk, Fatih Çiftçi, Mustafa Bilici, Gülşen Orhan Zahir Soğanda, Abdulahat Arvas, Necat Görentaş, Hasan Karadaş | 171,665 | 40.26 | |
| | Independent | Kemal Aktaş | 65,447 | 15.35 | |
| | Independent | Özdal Üçer | 51,357 | 12.04 | |
| | Independent | Aysel Tuğluk | 49.339 | 11.57 | |
| | Independent | Nazmi Gür | 41,212 | 9.67 | |
| | CHP | Zahir Kandaşoğlu, Mehmet Acar, Abdulbari Melek, Selim Karakuş, Sabriye Çabuker, Şahin Efendioğlu, Nurettin Erörs, Niyazi Çınak | 15,945 | 3.74 | |
| | MHP | Mustafa Kaçmaz, Ahmet Erbaş, Ümit Akdağ, Mustafa Alkoç, Ali Özturan, Turgent Lenk, Yüksel Hanalap, Mehmet Emin İnce | 12,734 | 2.99 | |
| | Büyük Birlik | None elected | 5306 | 1.24 | |
| | Other independents | Mustafa Sancak, Muhammed Ferhat Kesmez, İdris Ahi, Süleyman Bayram | 3974 | 0.93 | |
| | SAADET | None elected | 1856 | 0.44 | |
| | HAS Party | None elected | 1,734 | 0.41 | N/A |
| | DP | None elected | 1706 | 0.4 | |
| | TKP | None elected | 1549 | 0.36 | |
| | DSP | None elected | 1257 | 0.29 | '"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000D−QINU`"' |
| | Liberal Democrat | None elected | 482 | 0.11 | |
| | Nationalist Conservative | None elected | 465 | 0.11 | |
| | MP | None elected | 345 | 0.08 | |
| | DYP | None elected | 18 | 0 | |
| | HEPAR | None elected | 11 | 0 | |
| | Labour | None elected | 0 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 222,977 | 91.55 | |

### June 2015

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 368,522 | 74.8% |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 95,480 | 19.4% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 13,329 | 2.7% |
| | Hüda-Par | Free Cause Party | 3,093 | 0.6% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 2,340 | 0.5% |
| | | Other | 9,818 | 2% |
| Total | Total | Total | 492,582 | 492,582 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 84.49 | 84.49 |
| source: YSK |||||

### November 2015

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 310,794 | 65.5% |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 142,436 | 30% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 5,417 | 1.1% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 6,946 | 1.5% |
| | | Other | 8,659 | 1.8% |
| Total | Total | Total | 474,252 | 474,252 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 81.12 | 81.12 |
| source: YSK |||||

### 2018

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 310,273 | 60.6% |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 157,637 | 30.8% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 14,798 | 2.9% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 10,946 | 2.1% |
| | IYI | Good Party | 5,992 | 1.2% |
| | HÜDA-PAR | Free Cause Party | 4,753 | 0.9% |
| | SP | Felicity Party | 4,031 | 0.8% |
| | | Other | 3,429 | 0.7% |
| Total | Total | Total | 511,859 | 511,859 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 83.06 | 83.06 |
| source: YSK |||||

## Presidential elections
### 2014

Presidential Election 2014: Van :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | HDP | Selahattin Demirtaş | 223,277 | 54.55 |
| | AK Party | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 174,369 | 42.60 |
| | Independent | Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu | 11,685 | 2.85 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 409,331 | 100.00 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 7,564 | 1.81 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 416,895 | 71.89 |
| | Selahattin Demirtaş win | Selahattin Demirtaş win | Selahattin Demirtaş win | Selahattin Demirtaş win |