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. Muğla has elected six MPs to parliament for almost twenty years.
^ abHasan Özyer left the Motherland Party in August 2002 to join the AK Party, on whose ticket he ran in 2002. In 2005, he followed Erkan Mumcu out of the AK Party and rejoined Motherland.