November 2015 Turkish Parliament Speaker election

November 2015 Turkish Parliament Speaker elections

November 2015
All 550 Members of Parliament voting in the Grand National Assembly 367 votes needed to win in the first two rounds 276 votes needed to win in the third round
Nominee İsmail Kahraman Ayşe Gülsün Bilgehan Party AK Party CHP Constituency İstanbul (I) Ankara (I) Round 1 316 (60.2%) 127 (24.2%) Round 2 318 (60.8%) 126 (24.1%) Round 3 316 (60.5%) 125 (23.9%)   Nominee Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat Yusuf Halaçoğlu Party HDP MHP Constituency Mersin Kayseri Round 1 41 (7.8%) 41 (7.8%) Round 2 39 (7.5%) 40 (7.6%) Round 3 41 (7.9%) 40 (7.7%)
Speaker before election İsmet Yılmaz AK Party Elected Speaker İsmail Kahraman AK Party

The Turkish Parliament Speaker elections of November 2015 took place on 22 November 2015 to elect the 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly, who will preside over the proceedings of the 26th Parliament of Turkey elected in the 1 November 2015 general election.

Conduct

Motion to delay

İdris Baluken, a parliamentary group leader of the People's Democratic Party (HDP), raised a motion to delay the speaker election on the grounds that two HDP MPs were on hunger strike in the district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province, which had entered its tenth day of military curfew. Baluken claimed that this would result in the election outcome not being representative of the parliamentary composition. Interim speaker Deniz Baykal however rejected the motion regarding it as irrelevant to the parliamentary agenda.

Results

Party		Candidate	Party MPs	Round 1 367 votes to win	Round 2 367 votes to win	Round 3 276 votes to win
	AKP	İsmail Kahraman	317	316	318	Y 316
	CHP	Ayşe Gülsün Bilgehan	134	127	126	125
	HDP	Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat	59	41	40	41
	MHP	Yusuf Halaçoğlu	40	41	39	40
Invalid				0	0	2
Blank				0	0	0
Turnout				525	523	524
Result				Inconclusive	Inconclusive	Kahraman elected
Source: RotaHaber

See also

• Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly