1991 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Bulgaria
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All 240 seats in the National Assembly
121 seats needed for a majority
Turnout83.87%
Party Leader % Seats
SDS Philip Dimitrov 34.36 110
BSP Alexander Lilov 33.14 106
DPS Ahmed Dogan 7.55 24
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Dimitar Popov
Independent		 Philip Dimitrov
SDS

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 13 October 1991.[1] They were the first elections held under the country's first post-communist constitution, which had been promulgated three months earlier.

The result was a victory for the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), which won 110 of the 240 seats. The Bulgarian Socialist Party, the successor to the Communist Party, finished a close second with 106 seats. Voter turnout was 83.9%.[2] Following the election, SDS leader Philip Dimitrov became Prime Minister, heading a coalition of the SDS and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Union of Democratic Forces1,903,56734.36110
Pre-electoral Union of BSP, BLP, OPT1,836,05033.14106
Movement for Rights and Freedoms418,1687.5524
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union–United214,0523.860
Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union "Nikola Petkov"190,4543.440
Union of Democratic Forces–Centre177,2953.200
Union of Democratic Forces–Liberal (DP–ZP)155,9022.810
Kingdom of Bulgaria Federation100,8831.820
Bulgarian Business Bloc73,3791.320
Bulgarian National Radical Party62,4621.130
Bulgarian Business Party51,4970.930
Freedom Coalition for the Turnovo Constitution39,7190.720
Bulgarian Communist Party39,3860.710
Political Transformation Forum30,4420.550
Movement of Non-partisans for Democracy22,5880.410
Liberal Party – Pernik18,5770.340
Coalition BNS, BOP and BNSND17,2620.310
Bulgarian National Democratic Party15,3990.280
Liberal Congress Party14,4540.260
National Patrotic Union Party14,2880.260
Bulgarian Democratic Party13,7670.250
Independent Democratic Party12,7700.230
Free Cooperative Party12,1500.220
Union of Non-partisan Guarantors9,9450.180
Bulgarian Revolutionary Party of Youth – Varna8,1330.150
Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists7,6630.140
Radical Christian Party6,3990.120
Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party5,9160.110
Bulgarian Eagle Party4,8530.090
Bulgarian Worker-Rural Party – Varna3,7930.070
Organisation of Invalids and Underprivileged Citizens of Bulgaria3,3620.060
Free Democratic Party1,7580.030
Bulgarian Democratic Party for European and World States9840.020
Party for Free Democracy – Centre8660.020
United Democratic Union 'Party for Justice'300.000
Party of Proprietors of Bulgaria80.000
Christian Radical Democratic Party50.000
Independents52,6170.950
Total5,540,843100.00240
Valid votes5,540,84397.30
Invalid/blank votes153,9212.70
Total votes5,694,764100.00
Registered voters/turnout6,790,00683.87
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, University of Essex

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p369 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p382
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