Rize 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.
As a small electoral district, Rize's seat allocation has oscillated between three and four seats over the last two decades.
Rize was the district from which former prime minister Mesut Yılmaz was elected, first for his Anavatan and later as an independent.
MPs for Rize, 1999 onwardsSeat MP Mesut YılmazMotherland Abdülkadir KartAK Party Mesut YılmazIndependent Hayati YazıcıAK Party Hikmet AyarAK Party MP Ahmet KabilMotherland İlyas ÇakırAK Party Bayram Ali BayramoğluAK Party Hasan KaralAK Party MP Mehmet BekaroğluVirtue İmdat SütlüoğluAK Party Lütfi ÇırakoğluAK Party Nusret BayraktarAK Party Osman Aşkın BakAK Party
General elections
2011
June 2015 PartyVotes%AK PartyJustice and Development Party131,168CHPRepublican People's Party37,110MHPNationalist Movement Party15,870SPFelicity Party6,798Other5,526Total196,472Turnout82.36source: YSK
November 2015 PartyVotes%AK PartyJustice and Development Party152,923CHPRepublican People's Party29,970MHPNationalist Movement Party10,815SPFelicity Party2,997Other4,829Total201,534Turnout84.02source: YSK
2018 PartyVotes%AK PartyJustice and Development Party139,948CHPRepublican People's Party27,800MHPNationalist Movement Party26,907IYIGood Party13,088SPFelicity Party4,096Other5,768Total217,507Turnout88.02source: YSK
Presidential elections 2014
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