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Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 13 October 1991. [1] They were the first elections held under the country's first post-communist constitution, which had been promulgated three months earlier.
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 16th-largest country.
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The result was a victory for the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), which won 110 of the 240 seats. The Bulgarian Socialist Party, the successor to the Communist Party, finished a close second with 106 seats. Voter turnout was 83.9%. [2] Following the election, SDS leader Philip Dimitrov became Prime Minister, heading a coalition of the SDS and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
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Party | Votes | % | Seats |
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Union of Democratic Forces | 1,903,567 | 34.4 | 110 |
Pre-Electoral Union | 1,836,050 | 33.1 | 106 |
Movement for Rights and Freedoms | 418,168 | 7.6 | 24 |
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union-United | 214,052 | 3.9 | 0 |
Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union "Nikola Petkov" | 190,454 | 3.4 | 0 |
Union of Democratic Forces–Centre | 177,295 | 3.2 | 0 |
Union of Democratic Forces–Liberal | 155,902 | 2.8 | 0 |
Kingdom of Bulgaria Federation | 100,883 | 1.8 | 0 |
Bulgarian Business Bloc | 73,379 | 1.3 | 0 |
Bulgarian National Radical Party | 62,462 | 1.1 | 0 |
Bulgarian Business Party | 51,497 | 0.9 | 0 |
Freedom Coalition for the Turnovo Constitution | 39,719 | 0.7 | 0 |
Bulgarian Communist Party | 39,386 | 0.7 | 0 |
Political Transformation Forum | 30,442 | 0.6 | 0 |
Movement of Non-partisans for Democracy | 22,588 | 0.4 | 0 |
Liberal Party – Pernik | 18,577 | 0.3 | 0 |
Coalition BNS, BOP and BNSND | 17,262 | 0.3 | 0 |
Bulgarian National Democratic Party | 15,399 | 0.3 | 0 |
Liberal Congress Party | 14,454 | 0.3 | 0 |
National Patrotic Union Party | 14,288 | 0.3 | 0 |
Bulgarian Democratic Party | 13,767 | 0.3 | 0 |
Independent Democratic Party | 12,770 | 0.2 | 0 |
Free Cooperative Party | 12,150 | 0.2 | 0 |
Union of Non-partisan Guarantors | 9,945 | 0.2 | 0 |
Bulgarian Revolutionary Party of Youth – Varna | 8,133 | 0.2 | 0 |
Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists | 7,663 | 0.1 | 0 |
Radical Christian Party | 6,399 | 0.1 | 0 |
Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party | 5,916 | 0.1 | 0 |
Bulgarian Eagle Party | 4,853 | 0.1 | 0 |
Bulgarian Worker-Rural Party – Varna | 3,793 | 0.1 | 0 |
Organisation of Invalids and Underprivileged Citizens of Bulgaria | 3,362 | 0.1 | 0 |
Free Democratic Party | 1,758 | 0.0 | 0 |
Bulgarian Democratic Party for European and World States | 984 | 0.0 | 0 |
Party for Free Democracy – Centre | 866 | 0.0 | 0 |
United Democratic Union 'Party for Justice' | 30 | 0.0 | 0 |
Party of Proprietors of Bulgaria | 8 | 0.0 | 0 |
Christian Radical Democratic Party | 5 | 0.0 | 0 |
Independents | 52,617 | 1.0 | 0 |
Invalid/blank votes | 153,921 | – | – |
Total | 5,694,764 | 100 | 240 |
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, University of Essex |
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