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Turnout | 55.01% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 24 November 1913. [1] to elect members of the XVI Ordinary National Assembly. The result was a victory for the Liberal Concentration, an alliance of the Liberal Party (Radoslavists), the People's Liberal Party and the Young Liberals Party, won a plurality of votes and seats. Voter turnout was 55%. [2] For the first time in Bulgarian history the election was held under proportional representation in all twelve of Bulgaria's pre-Balkan wars regions. Citizens in the newly annexed territories could not vote.
Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |||
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Liberal Concentration | Liberal Party | 207,763 | 38.68 | 60 | +53 | ||
People's Liberal Party | 27 | +21 | |||||
Young Liberals Party | 7 | +6 | |||||
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union | 113,761 | 21.18 | 48 | +44 | |||
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Broad Socialists) | 55,157 | 10.27 | 19 | +18 | |||
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) | 54,217 | 10.10 | 18 | +18 | |||
Democratic Party | 42,971 | 8.00 | 14 | +10 | |||
People's Party | 24,994 | 4.65 | 5 | –94 | |||
Radical Democratic Party | 24,007 | 4.47 | 5 | +5 | |||
Progressive Liberal Party | 12,513 | 2.33 | 1 | –90 | |||
Others | 1,684 | 0.31 | 0 | 0 | |||
Total | 537,067 | 100.00 | 204 | –9 | |||
Valid votes | 537,067 | 98.83 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 6,383 | 1.17 | |||||
Total votes | 543,450 | 100.00 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 987,832 | 55.01 | |||||
Source: Zhivkov [3] |
The ruling Liberal Concentration did not win a majority of seats. The leader of the People's Liberal Party and foreign minister Nikola Genadiev resigned in December 1913 due to the government's strongly pro-Central Powers foreign policy and later formed his own party. However the major faction of the party remained in government and he was succeeded as party leader by Dobri Petkov. Despite protests from many opposition MPs, early elections were called shortly afterwards and held in February 1914. The ruling coalition promised additional minority rights to the Turkish population in the newly annexed territories in the hopes of achieving a majority. [4]