Electorate 3,375,444 Seats 30 Turnout at last election 87.16% Province Istanbul | Created 1923 Parent district İstanbul AK Party 15 / 30 Seat 30 | |
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İstanbul's first electoral district is one of three divisions of the İstanbul electoral district for the purpose of elections to Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects thirty members of parliament (deputies) to represent the district for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system.
Contents
The district covers the entire Anatolian side of the Province of İstanbul, on the east of the Bosphorus.
Division
The first electoral district contains the following İstanbul administrative districts (ilçe):
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. İstanbul (I) gained 6 extra seats for the 2011 general election, thus electing 30 seats as opposed to 24 that it elected in 1999, 2002 and 2007.