1939 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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1939 Bulgarian parliamentary election
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  1938 24 December 1939 (1939-12-24)–January 1940 (1940-01) 1945  

All 160 seats in the National Assembly
81 seats needed for a majority
Turnout67.2%
PartyLeaderVote %Seats
Pro-government 57.74142
BKP Georgi Dimitrov 8.0410
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister beforePrime Minister after
Georgi Kyoseivanov
Independent
Georgi Kyoseivanov
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 24 December 1939, although voting continued in some areas into January 1940. [1] The elections were officially held on a non-partisan basis with the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and Bulgarian Communist Party banned, [2] and in a process tightly controlled by Tsar Boris III, by then the real power in the country. [3] However, candidates representing parties did contest the elections. [4] Pro-government candidates won a majority of seats. [5] Voter turnout was 67.2%. [6]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Pro-government candidates1,222,97157.74142
Bulgarian Communist Party 170,2528.0410
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Tomov) 150,2517.095
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Dragiev) 125,7135.94
Agrarians94,3544.453
National Social Movement 68,8153.25
Democratic Alliance 59,7402.82
National Liberal Party 46,7662.21
Democratic Party 38,8631.83
Zveno 37,7061.78
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Broad Socialists) 26,6721.26
Radical Democratic Party 18,9390.89
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization 14,5930.69
Other opposition candidates42,3512.00
Total2,117,986100.00160
Valid votes2,117,98697.37
Invalid/blank votes57,1772.63
Total votes2,175,163100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,235,96867.22
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp368–369 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p354
  3. Bulgaria: a country study. Library of Congress Federal Research Division, December 1989.
  4. Nohlen & Stöver, p381
  5. Nohlen & Stöver, p386
  6. Nohlen & Stöver, p370