# Siirt (electoral district)

Siirt is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects three 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. Siirt's seat allocation has been remained unchanged at three seats since 1991.
Siirt is distinctive as being the site of a by-election, a rarity in Turkish politics, which in 2003 saw Recep Tayyip Erdoğan elected to parliament after a law barring candidates with criminal convictions from standing was amended. Erdoğan subsequently became prime minister.
More recently, Siirt 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. One independent candidate was elected here in 2011 and has since joined the BDP.
MPs for Siirt, 1999 onwards :
| Seat | 1999 (21st parliament) | 2002 (22nd parliament) | 2003 (by-election) (22nd parliament) | 2007 (23rd parliament) | | 2011 (24th parliament) | June 2015 (25th parliament) |
| MP | Nizamettin Sevgili Motherland | Mervan Gül AK Party | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan AK Party | Afif Demirkıran AK Party | Afif Demirkıran AK Party | Afif Demirkıran AK Party | Yasin Aktay AK Party |
| MP | Takiddin Yarayan DYP | Ekrem Bilek CHP | Öner Ergenç AK Party | Mehmet Yılmaz Helvacıoğlu AK Party | | Osman Ören AK Party | Hatice Seviptekin HDP |
| MP | Ahmet Nurettin Aydın FP | Fadıl Akgündüz Independent | Öner Gülyeşil AK Party | Osman Özçelik Independent | | Gültan Kışanak Independent | Kadri Yıldırım HDP |

## General elections
### 2002

This election was successfully challenged by the AK Party arguing that a boycott by in villagers in Doğan, near Pervari in Siirt, and the absence of an electoral board for the region rendered the vote invalid. A fresh ballot was held on 9 March 2003.
2002 Turkish general election: Siirt :
| List | List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. |
| | DHP | None elected | 26,980 | 32.17 | '"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000D−QINU`"' |
| | AK Party | Mervan Gül | 14,728 | 17.56 | '"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000E−QINU`"' |
| | Independent | Mehmet Fadıl Akgündüz | 11,450 | 13.65 | N/A |
| | ANAP | None elected | 8258 | 9.85 | |
| | CHP | Ekrem Bilek | 7481 | 8.92 | |
| | MHP | None elected | 5979 | 7.13 | |
| | DYP | None elected | 3993 | 4.76 | |
| | SAADET | None elected | 1402 | 1.67 | '"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000F−QINU`"' |
| | GP | None elected | 954 | 1.14 | N/A |
| | Büyük Birlik | None elected | 607 | 0.72 | |
| | DSP | None elected | 400 | 0.48 | |
| | YP | None elected | 392 | 0.47 | N/A |
| | BTP | None elected | 328 | 0.39 | N/A |
| | YTP | None elected | 198 | 0.24 | N/A |
| | MP | None elected | 194 | 0.23 | |
| | ÖDP | None elected | 161 | 0.19 | |
| | Liberal Democrat | None elected | 154 | 0.18 | |
| | İP | None elected | 116 | 0.14 | |
| | TKP | None elected | 80 | 0.1 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 83,855 | 74.15 | |

### 2003

Siirt by-election, 9 March 2003 :
| List | List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. |
| | AK Party | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Öner Ergenç, Öner Gülyeşil | 55,203 | 84.82 | 67.26 |
| | CHP | None elected | 8972 | 13.79 | 4.86 |
| | İP | None elected | 500 | 0.77 | 0.63 |
| | TKP | None elected | 404 | 0.62 | 0.53 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 73,624 | 61.77 | −12.38 |

### 2007

2007 Turkish general election: Siirt :
| List | List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. |
| | AK Party | Afif Demikıran, Osman Özçelik | 44,836 | 48.78 | −36.05 |
| | Independent | Osman Özçelik | 36,320 | 39.51 | 25.86 |
| | CHP | None elected | 3181 | 3.46 | −1.33 |
| | DP | None elected | 2674 | 2.91 | −1.85 |
| | MHP | None elected | 2546 | 2.77 | −4.36 |
| | SAADET | None elected | 884 | 0.96 | −0.71 |
| | HYP | None elected | 360 | 0.39 | N/A |
| | BTP | None elected | 257 | 0.28 | −0.11 |
| | ATP | None elected | 218 | 0.24 | N/A |
| | TKP | None elected | 179 | 0.17 | −0.6 |
| | İP | None elected | 152 | 0.17 | −0.6 |
| | GP | None elected | 149 | 0.16 | −0.98 |
| | ÖDP | None elected | 88 | 0.1 | −0.1 |
| | Liberal Democrat | None elected | 75 | 0.08 | −0.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 91,919 | 79.77 | 18.0 |

### 2011

2011 Turkish general election: Siirt :
| List | List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. |
| | AK Party | Afif Demirkıran, Osman Ören | 58,623 | 48.03 | −0.74 |
| | Independent | Gültan Kışanak | 51,809 | 42.45 | 2.94 |
| | CHP | None elected | 3,520 | 2.88 | −0.58 |
| | Büyük Birlik | None elected | 1,952 | 1.6 | |
| | HAS Party | None elected | 1,433 | 1.18 | N/A |
| | MHP | None elected | 1,433 | 1.17 | −1.6 |
| | DSP | None elected | 1,263 | 1.03 | −2.43'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000001D−QINU`"' |
| | SAADET | None elected | 911 | 0.75 | −0.22 |
| | DP | None elected | 503 | 0.41 | −2.5 |
| | TKP | None elected | 344 | 0.28 | 0.09 |
| | Nationalist Conservative | None elected | 86 | 0.07 | |
| | MP | None elected | 85 | 0.07 | |
| | Liberal Democrat | None elected | 73 | 0.06 | −0.02 |
| | DYP | None elected | 0 | | |
| | HEPAR | None elected | 0 | | |
| | Labour | None elected | 0 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 122,045 | 81.82 | 2.05 |

### June 2015

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 93,518 | 65.8% |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 40,137 | 28.2% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 3,389 | 2.4% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 1,735 | 1.2% |
| | | Other | 3,438 | 1.3% |
| Total | Total | Total | 142,217 | 142,217 | 142,217 | 142,217 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 86.72 | 86.72 | 86.72 | 86.72 |
| source: YSK |||||

### November 2015

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 81,702 | 58.3% |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 51,409 | 36.7% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 2,314 | 1.7% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 2,104 | 1.5% |
| | | Other | 2,670 | 1.9% |
| Total | Total | Total | 140,199 | 140,199 | 140,199 | 140,199 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 85.53 | 85.53 | 85.53 | 85.53 |
| source: YSK |||||

### 2018

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party | 76,225 | 52.1% |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 55,890 | 38.2% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 4,905 | 3.4% |
| | IYI | Good Party | 2,181 | 1.5% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 2,990 | 2% |
| | HÜDA-PAR | Free Cause Party | 1,776 | 1.2% |
| | SP | Felicity Party | 1,355 | 0.9% |
| | | Other | 945 | 0.6% |
| Total | Total | Total | 146,267 | 146,267 | 146,267 | 146,267 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 84.26 | 84.26 | 84.26 | 84.26 |
| source: YSK |||||

### 2023

| Abbr. | Abbr. | Party | Votes | % |
| | YSGP | Party of Greens and the Left Future | 77.267 | 45.9% |
| | AK Party | Justice and Development Party | 59.553 | 35.9% |
| | CHP | Republican People's Party | 12.843 | 7.7% |
| | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party | 6.462 | 3.9% |
| | IYI | Good Party | 2.482 | 1.5% |
| | YRP | New Welfare Party | 1.958 | 1.2% |
| | | Independent | 1.268 | 0.8% |
| | | Other | 3.891 | 2.3% |
| Total | Total | Total | 168.261 | 168.261 | 168.261 | 168.261 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | %83,36 | %83,36 | %83,36 | %83,36 |
| source: YSK |||||

## Presidential elections
### 2014

Presidential Election 2014: Siirt :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | HDP | Selahattin Demirtaş | 65,500 | 54.07 |
| | AK Party | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 51,379 | 42.41 |
| | Independent | Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu | 4,257 | 3.51 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 121,136 | 100.00 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 2,371 | 1.92 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 123,507 | 74.70 |
| | Selahattin Demirtaş win | Selahattin Demirtaş win | Selahattin Demirtaş win | Selahattin Demirtaş win |