1931 Bulgarian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 21 June 1931. ^[1] The result was a victory for the Popular Bloc, an alliance of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Dragiev), the Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party (Petrov) and the Radical Democratic Party, which won 152 of the 274 seats. Voter turnout was 85%. ^[2]

This would be the last officially partisan election held in Bulgaria before World War II (the 1939 elections were officially nonpartisan, but candidates representing parties ran as individuals). By the time of the next elections in which parties were formally allowed to take part, in 1945, the country had been through two dictatorships and a third, Communist one was rapidly consolidating. ^[3] As a result, the 1931 election was also the last free election held in the country until 1990.

Results

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats
	Popular Bloc		Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Dragiev)	626,553	48.45	69
			Democratic Party			43
			National Liberal Party (Petrov)			32
			Radical Democratic Party			8
		Total				152
	DA–NLP		Democratic Alliance	403,686	31.21	63
			National Liberal Party			15
		Total				78
	Bulgarian Communist Party			168,281	13.01	31
	United Labour Social Democratic Party			27,323	2.11	0
	Socialist Federation			26,501	2.05	0
	BZNS (Tomov)–Craftsmen–Radical Democratic Party			20,805	1.61	0
	United People's Progressive Party			8,152	0.63	0
	Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization					8
	Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Broad Socialists)					5
	Independents			11,980	0.93	0
Total				1,293,281	100.00	274
Valid votes				1,293,281	98.31
Invalid/blank votes				22,228	1.69
Total votes				1,315,509	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				1,543,847	85.21
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Dellin

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. Bulgaria: a country study. Library of Congress Federal Research Division, December 1989.