1927 Bulgarian parliamentary election

1927 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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All 273 seats in the National Assembly 137 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	84.27%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– DA–PLP Andrey Lyapchev Dobri Petkov  ( bg ) 45.27 174 −26 Iron Bloc Georgi Markov (BZNS)  ( bg ) Yanko Sakazov Vasil Kolarov 27.29 61 +23 Triple Coalition Aleksandar Malinov Dimo Kyorchev  ( bg ) Konstantin Tomov  ( bg ) 16.63 26 +17 VMRO Ivan Karandzhulov  ( bg ) [a] 3.28 11 New NLP (united) Boyan Smilov  ( bg ) 1.61 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Andrey Lyapchev Lyapchev I (DA) Andrey Lyapchev Lyapchev I (DA)

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 29 May 1927 to elect members of the XXII Ordinary National Assembly. ^[1] The result was a victory for the ruling Democratic Alliance, which ran alongside the restored People's Liberal Party. The coalition won 174 of the 273 seats. Voter turnout was 84.3%. ^[2]

Results

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats
	DA-PLP [b]		Democratic Alliance	522,592	45.27	168
			People's Liberal Party [c]			6
	Iron Bloc of Labour [d]		BZNS-Vrabcha 1	285,758	24.76	43
			BRSDP (united)			10
			Craftsmen			4
			Workers' Party [e]			2
	Triple Coalition [f]		Democratic Party	179,491	15.55	11
			NLP			9
			BZNS-Orange			3
			Radical Party			2
	VMRO [g]			37,854	3.28	11
	RP-BZNS-Stara Zagora		Radical Party	29,637	2.57	0
			BZNS-Stara Zagora			0
	Workers' Party [e]			29,210	2.53	2
	NLP (united)			18,540	1.61	1
	United People's Progressive Party			17,249	1.49	0
	Democratic Party			12,414	1.08	1
	Others			21,568	1.87	0
Total				1,154,313	100.00	273
Valid votes				1,154,313	97.57
Invalid/blank votes				28,809	2.43
Total votes				1,183,122	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				1,403,972	84.27
Source: National Statistical Institute (votes), [4] DA newspaper, issue 1081 (seats) [h]

Aftermath

The ruling Democratic Alliance won a majority by itself and Andrey Lyapchev remained Prime Minister. In May 1931 a faction of the NLP joined the government with two ministers. ^[5]

In 1927 the government signed the Mollov-Kafandaris agreement  ( bg ), which regulated the real estate assets left behind by Bulgarians expelled from Greece and Greeks from Bulgaria after the First World War. In the aftermath of the 1928 earthquakes, the government secured a foreign loan, which, alongside the Refugee Loan  ( bg ) two years prior, helped stabilize the Bulgarian lev. The period between 1928 and 1931 was characterized by the increasing influence of tsar Boris III and growing ties to Fascist Italy, culminating in Boris' marriage to Giovanna of Savoy. Lyapchev, a Macedonian Bulgarian, took a hardline stance on the improvement of the conditions of Bulgarians in Macedonia, resulting in the closing of the Bulgarian-Yugoslavian border in 1929. The Great Depression in Bulgaria, usually seen as being ushered in by the bankruptcy of the Buklovi Brothers enterprise  ( bg ) in October 1929, ^[6] had a strong effect on Bulgaria's mostly agricultural and light industry dominated economy. Production fell by over 30% in the first three years of the crisis, resulting in mass unemployment. ^[7]

Notes

1. Leader of the parliamentary group
2. 414591 votes in constituencies where the DA ran alone, 108001 in constituencies where they ran with the PLP.
3. The People's Liberal (Stambolovist) Party was briefly restored from the Petkov faction of the National Liberal Party. In September 1928 it merged back into the Kyorchev-led NLP
4. In some constituencies, the coalition included members of the Workers' Party. The coalition collapsed shortly after the election
5. As the Communist party was de jure banned, its members ran on the lists of the newly founded Workers' Party. The two eventually merged.
6. The coalition was variously referred to as quadruple or quintuple, depending on the number of parties it included in each constituency. The coalition collapsed shortly after the election
7. All the MPs in the Petrich Province were elected on a single unopposed national unity list and formed the crossbench Macedonian Group  ( bg ), in order to represent the interests of the VMRO. The four MPs from Gorna Dzhumaya represented the DP, the four from Petrich the RP and the three from Nevrokop - the DA ^[3]
8. The seat distribution for the Vratsa Province does not entirely match the final vote count for each municipality and may reflect preliminary results

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p380
3. Tyulekov, Dimitar. The activity of the macedonian parliamentary group in the XXII and XXIII Ordinary National Assembly (1927-1934.), Makedonski pregled volume XXIV, 2001
4. Statistical Yearbook of Bulgaria 1927. NSI. 1929. pp. 373–378.
5. Kumanov, Milen. Political organizations and movements in Bulgaria and their leaders 1879-1949, Sofia 1991.
6. Avramov, Rumen (2007). Communal capitalism vol. II. Foundation Bulgarian science and culture / Center for liberal strategies. pp. 611–620. ISBN   978-954-90758-8-5.
7. Tsurakov, Angel. Encyclopedia of Governments, National Assemblies, and Assassinations in Bulgaria. Sofia, Trud Publishing House, 2008. ISBN 954-528-790-X, p. 160-168.