1913 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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1913 Bulgarian parliamentary election
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  September 1911 24 November 1913 1914  

All 204 seats in the National Assembly
103 seats needed for a majority
Turnout55.01%
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
LPNLPMLP Vasil Radoslavov 38.6994+80
BZNS Aleksandar Dimitrov  [ bg ]
Dimitar Dragiev  [ bg ]
21.1848+44
BRSDP (united) Yanko Sakazov 10.2719+18
BRSDP Dimitar Blagoev 10.1018+18
Democratic Aleksandar Malinov 8.0014+10
People's Party Ivan Geshov 4.535−94
Radical Democratic Naycho Tsanov  [ bg ]4.475+5
Progressive Liberal Stoyan Danev 2.211−90
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Prime Minister beforePrime Minister after
Vasil Radoslavov
Radoslavov II (LPNLPMLP)
Vasil Radoslavov
Radoslavov III (LPNLPMLP)

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.

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Results

Party or allianceVotes%Seats+/–
Liberal Concentration Liberal Party 207,76338.6860+53
People's Liberal Party 27+21
Young Liberals Party 7+6
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union 113,76121.1848+44
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Broad Socialists) 55,15710.2719+18
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) 54,21710.1018+18
Democratic Party 42,9718.0014+10
People's Party 24,9944.655–94
Radical Democratic Party 24,0074.475+5
Progressive Liberal Party 12,5132.331–90
Others1,6840.3100
Total537,067100.00204–9
Valid votes537,06798.83
Invalid/blank votes6,3831.17
Total votes543,450100.00
Registered voters/turnout987,83255.01
Source: Zhivkov [3]

Aftermath

Members of Radoslavov's third government Radoslavov's government (1914-1918).jpg
Members of Radoslavov's third government

The ruling Liberal Concentration did not win a majority of seats. The leader of the People's Liberal Party and foreign minister Nikola Genadiev  [ bg ] 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]

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p378
  3. Svetoslav Zhivkov (2022). The proportional representation. Elections and electoral legislature in Bulgaria on the eve of the First World War. pp. 436–443.
  4. "Политически партии, организации и движения в България и техните лидери" (in Bulgarian).