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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 17 February 1902 [1] to elect members of the XII Ordinary National Assembly. The result was a victory for the ruling Progressive Liberal Party. Voter turnout was 50%. [2]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Progressive Liberal Party | 298,310 | 30.09 | 82 | +51 | |
People's Party | 200,972 | 20.27 | 32 | +7 | |
People's Liberal Party | 112,242 | 11.32 | 9 | –22 | |
Liberal Party (Radoslavists) | 69,252 | 6.99 | 8 | +3 | |
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union | 60,551 | 6.11 | 12 | –1 | |
Democratic Party | 58,299 | 5.88 | 8 | –19 | |
Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party | 47,172 | 4.76 | 8 | +6 | |
Young Democratic Party | 22,698 | 2.29 | 6 | New | |
Independent Liberals | 10,282 | 1.04 | 1 | +1 | |
Turkish group | 8,570 | 0.86 | 4 | New | |
Indepdendent Democrats | 7,685 | 0.78 | 1 | –1 | |
Conservative Party | 5,055 | 0.51 | 2 | 0 | |
Democratic-Republican | 4,929 | 0.50 | 1 | +1 | |
Independent People's Liberals | 2,673 | 0.27 | 0 | New | |
Reformists | 1,131 | 0.11 | 0 | –5 | |
Others | 601 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | |
Undetermined | 27,858 | 2.81 | 2 | +2 | |
Independents | 53,142 | 5.36 | 13 | –11 | |
Total | 991,422 | 100.00 | 189 | +22 | |
Total votes | 404,497 | – | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 812,467 | 49.79 | |||
Source: National Statistical Institute [3] [4] |
Several MPs were elected in more than one constituency and were required to choose which one to represent when the Assembly convened, resulting in ten seats being vacanted. By-elections were held on 1 September 1902. This resulted in the Progressive Liberal Party becoming the largest party with 89 seats. [3]
Party | Seats | |
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Progressive Liberal Party | 89 | |
People's Party | 28 | |
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union | 12 | |
People's Liberal Party | 8 | |
Liberal Party | 7 | |
Democratic Party | 7 | |
Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party | 7 | |
Young Democratic Party | 6 | |
Turkish group | 4 | |
Conservative Party | 2 | |
Independent Democrats | 1 | |
Democratic-Republican | 1 | |
Independent Liberals | 1 | |
Undetermined | 3 | |
Independents | 13 | |
Total | 189 | |
Source: National Statistical Institute [3] |
The ruling Progressive Liberal Party continued in a minority government, with the support of the People's Party. The government secured a loan with the Paribas Bank in June 1902, which was used to pay Bulgaria's occupational debt to Russia. Following a dispute with Prince Ferdinand in early May 1903 the government resigned. [5] Ferdinand appointed an NLP government led by independent Racho Petrov and scheduled a snap election for October 1903.