22nd Parliament of Turkey

This is a list of the 550 Members of Parliament elected in the 2002 general election held in Turkey. The MPs are listed by province, in order of election. Turkey uses a D'Hondt proportional representative system to elect Members of Parliament. These MPs formed the 22nd Parliament of Turkey. An overview of the parliamentary composition is shown in the table below.

Party Members Change Proportion
Justice and Development Party36336366.0%
Republican People's Party17817832.4%
Independents961.6%
Total550100%

22nd Parliament of Turkey
18 November 2002 – 22 July 2007
Speaker(s)Bülent Arınç
Deputy SpeakersSadık Yakut
İsmail Alptekin
Nevzat Pakdil
Yılmaz Ateş
MPs550
ElectionJuly 2007
StatusAKP majority
Parties (at start)
(Composition shown above)
  AKP (363)
  CHP (178)
  Independents (9)
Parties (at end)  AKP (352)
  CHP (148)
  ANAP (20)
  Independents (14)
  DYP (4)
  HYP (1)
  SHP (1)
  GP (1)
  Vacant (9)
Prime MinistersAbdullah Gül
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Government(s)58th, 59th
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