District Election Board:

(Change: 22/12/2005 - 5435/45 art.)

District Election Board is gathered on the last week of January once in each two years with one chairman, six permanent and reserve members.  The judge with the highest seniority in district acts as president of the board. Boards gather with permanent members. In case one permanent member does not attend the meeting, his reserve member is invited.   

Chairmanship of central and District Election Boards is executed by judges with the highest seniority following the judge acting as the president of Provincial Election Board. 

Temporary District Election Boards may be composed in districts with more than 25.000 voters, in order to execute the duty of gathering and distributing of electoral documents and combining and delivering of documents to District Election Boards composed of ballot box committee chairmen and at least one member who has taken necessary training. These boards are composed of one chairman and six members. Judges with highest seniority following the judges acting as presidents of provincial and District Election Boards perform the chairmanship of such boards. Two members of the board are assigned by the president among public officials. Four members, including their reserves are taken from the political parties in line with the principles defined in Article 19. Supreme Election Council decides working principles and methods, number of districts and their terms of duty for such boards. 

Seniority of judges are determined due to Article 15 of 2802 numbered Law. But while determining this seniority, those who were subject to condemnation or heavier dicipline penalties are considered less senior than the others.