Bulgarian parliamentary election, 1927

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Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 29 May 1927. [1] The result was a victory for the Democratic Alliance-National Liberal Party alliance, which won 174 of the 261 seats. Voter turnout was 84.3%. [2]

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Results

Votes

PartyVotes%
Democratic Alliance 414,59135.9
Democratic Alliance-National Liberal Party 108,0019.4
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union 285,75824.8
BZNS (Tomov)-DP-NLP (Kyorchev) 179,49115.5
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization 37,8543.3
BZNS (Dragiev)-RDP 29,6372.6
Bulgarian Communist Party 29,2102.5
National Liberal Party 18,5401.6
United People's Progressive Party 17,2491.5
Democratic Party 12,4141.1
Independents21,5681.9
Invalid/blank votes28,809
Total1,183,122100
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Seats

PartySeats
Democratic Alliance-National Liberal Party 174
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Dragiev) 46
Democratic Party 11
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists) 10
National Liberal Party (Kyorchev) 7
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization 7
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Tomov) 6
Total261
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p380