Turkish general election, 2011
- BDP: 29
- CHP: 135
- Indep. 6
- ACP: 327
- KADEP: 1
- MHP: 52
The parliamentary elections in Turkey in 2011 were held on June 12, 2011. There were the elections to the 24th Grand National Assembly.
The ruling Islamic conservative Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi ( AKP) of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won for the third time in a row the general election, but missed the target two-thirds majority to change the constitution alone can. The Kemalist Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi - Socialist ( CHP) appeared for the first time with her new Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for election to, posted gains of more than five percentage points and remained the second largest party.
- 5.1 Independent election winner
- 6.1 lawsuits against elected representatives
- 6.2 Opening of Parliament
Suffrage
In Turkey applies with the ten- percent threshold of Article 33, paragraph 1 of Deputies election law the highest in comparison with European countries blocking clause. In order to circumvent this clause, decided some parties with localized electorate as the Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi (BDP ) to send their candidates as an independent candidate in the election. In total, 230 independent candidates and 17 parties stood for election.
The minimum age for eligibility for election was reduced to 25 years ( previously 30). During the election campaign could be used for the first time alongside the Turkish language and the Kurdish language of the largest ethnic minority. There were 50,189,930 eligible voters, including more than 7 million first-time voters (see demographics of Turkey).
In the provinces of Adiyaman, Ağrı, Artvin, Bingöl, Bitlis, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Hakkari, Kars, Malatya, Kahramanmaras, Mardin, Muş, Ordu, Rize, Siirt, Sivas, Trabzon, Tunceli, Şanlıurfa, Van, Bayburt, Batman, Şırnak, Ardahan, Iğdır and Kilis were open from 07:00 to 16:00 UTC 2 polling stations. In the remaining provinces were the opening times 8:00 a.m. to 17:00 UTC 2.
Participating parties
The Supreme Electoral Committee of Turkey (tr: Yüksek Secim Kurulu ) registered 27 parties that could compete for election. But nine of authorized parties decided to not to run. They sent their members either as independents in the race or entered into a coalition with other parties. Finally, the Özgürlük ve Dayanisma Partisi and Yeni Parti were excluded nor on April 19 because they had their documents are not fully submitted. Thus came the end of 15 to parties. Specifically, these were in the order of the ballot:
Independent candidates
In addition to parties and independent candidates competed for election. With 230 independent candidates, there were significantly fewer candidates than in the election in 2007 ( 699 persons). 17 left and socialist parties such as the BDP, the Emek Partisi and others joined the Emek, Demokrasi ve Özgürlük bloku (block work, democracy and freedom ) together and sent 65 candidates for 41 provinces in the race. The majority of the candidates was close to the BDP. Among other things, were prominent figures such as Leyla Zana, Dicle Hatip, Ferhat Tunç, Şerafettin Elçi, Altan Tan and Yüksel Avşar to ( cousin of Hülya Avşar ). Even socialist candidate as Ertuğrul Kürkçü ( co-founder of THKP -C), Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Levent Tüzel ( former Chairman of the Emek Partisi ) were among them. Among the candidates were also Ahmet Türk and Aysel Tugluk who had lost their seats in 2009 after the banning of the Demokratik Partisi Toplum. Politicians with Kurdish origin as Tugluk and Turk, it is since 1983 by the Turkish Law No. 2820 prohibited on political parties to speak Kurdish in election campaigns and in Parliament, the non-compliance of the Kurdischverbotes was first tolerated in the 2011 election campaign and not prevented and persecuted.
Number of Deputies by province
The number of mandates for a province depends on their population. Thus sends Istanbul, the most populous province, 85, Bayburt, however, only one deputies in the parliament. The individual numbers are:
- Adana: 14
- Adiyaman: 5
- Afyonkarahisar: 5
- Ağrı: 4
- Aksaray 3
- Amasya: 3
- Ankara 1 Area: 16
- Ankara 2 Area: 15
- Antalya: 14
- Ardahan 2
- Artvin: 2
- Aydın: 7
- Balıkesir: 8
- Bartın 2
- Batman 4
- Bayburt 1
- Bilecik: 2
- Bingöl 3
- Bitlis 3
- Bolu 3
- Burdur 3
- Bursa 18
- Çanakkale 4
- Çankırı 2
- Çorum 4
- Denizli 7
- Diyarbakır 11
- Düzce 3
- Edirne 3
- Elazig 5
- Erzincan 2
- Erzurum 6
- Eskişehir 6
- Gaziantep 12
- Giresun 4
- Gümüşhane 2
- Hakkari 3
- Hatay 10
- Iğdır 2
- Isparta 4
- Mersin 11
- Istanbul 1 Area: 30
- Istanbul 2 Area: 27
- Istanbul 3 Area: 28
- İzmir 1 Area: 13
- İzmir 2 Area: 13
- Karabük 2
- Karaman 2
- Kars: 3
- Kastamonu: 3
- Kayseri: 9
- Kilis 2
- Kırıkkale 3
- Kırklareli: 3
- Kırşehir: 2
- Kocaeli: 11
- Konya: 14
- Kütahya: 5
- Malatya: 6
- Manisa 10
- Kahramanmaras 8
- Mardin 6
- Muğla 6
- Muş 4
- Nevsehir 3
- Nigde 3
- Ordu 6
- Osmaniye 4
- Rize 3
- Sakarya 7
- Samsun 9
- Siirt 3
- Sinop 2
- Şırnak 4
- Sivas 5
- Tekirdag 6
- Tokat 5
- Trabzon 6
- Tunceli 2
- Şanlıurfa 12
- Usak 3
- Van 8
- Yalova 2
- Yozgat 4
- Zonguldak 5
Election result
- ACP
- CHP
- Work, Democracy and Freedom Block
- MHP
Parties in parliament
From initially 27 to choose from registered parties were due to non- registration form and only 15 errors in the election. Due to the force in Turkey 10% electoral threshold only three parties of the collection managed to parliament. It 36 independent candidates were elected to parliament. They were the unification of Emek ve Demokrasi Özgürlük bloku supported.
Independent election winner
The independent candidates who have won a mandate are:
Effects
The ruling AKP increased its votes for the third time. Only in three ( Hakkari, Tunceli and Iğdır ) of 81 provinces received no mandate. Due to a change of electoral districts and an increase in the percentage of votes to be considered by the AKP, CHP and MHP ( parties with more than 10 % voting share ) of 81.8 % to 88.8 %, while the share of ACP on growth of 7, 0% of the relevant interpretative voices was only 3.24%, the party fewer seats won in parliament after the 2007 election. missed you their choice target to achieve a two-thirds majority required to amend the Turkish constitution without the consent of other parties. In this election, the first not prematurely carried out for 34 years, there was the surprise that after over 50 years with Erol Dora from Mardin again a deputy Christian faith has a seat in parliament.
Other groups are represented more strongly after the election. 78 women were elected to parliament, the largest number. Also increased the number of " independents ", especially the BDP related Kurds were allowed to 36th After Kurdish politicians first occur around 9 in the Kurdish language in the election campaign, after dialing expects Erdoğan reinforced the solution of the Kurdish question turns, especially since PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan has been willing to negotiate.
Lawsuits against elected representatives
Four accused of Ergenekon and Balyoz processes ( Sinan Aygun, Mehmet Haberal, İlhan Cihaner and Mustafa Balbay ) were elected on the list of CHP and MHP on the parliament. In addition, six, formally independent, deputies of the BDP ( İbrahim Ayhan, Gursel Yıldırım, Selma Irmak, Kemal Aktas, Faysal Sarıyıldız and Hatip Dicle ) in the context of the trial of the forbidden part of the PKK organization coma Civakên Kurdistan in custody.
The High Electoral Council withdrew Hatip Dicle few days after the election from his position due to a politically motivated imprisonment from April 2010. Defeated in the direct election ACP candidate Oya Eronat from the province of Diyarbakır Dicle will move up for. Thus, the number of seats the ruling party AKP increased in the Turkish National Assembly to a seat Dicle wishes to challenge the decision. The remaining elected independent MP then decided to boycott the parliament. Furthermore, the opposition to the dismissal of the remaining five independent MPs. Mehmet and Mustafa Balbay also Haberal were not released at the prison.
Opening of Parliament
The new Parliament was constituted on 28 June 2011. As announced remained the Independent Members of the meeting remotely. Instead of Hatip Dicle Oya Eronat made their oath of office. The CHP was indeed present, but refused (except for Oktay Ekşi ) in protest against the non- release of Mehmet and Mustafa Balbay Haberal to swear the oath. Oktay Ekşi swore the oath because he was the elder service the session.