1991 Bulgarian parliamentary election

none Bulgaria 1990 1994 13 October 1991 All 240 seats in the National Assembly 121 83.87% yes Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria) Philip Dimitrov 34.36 110 Bulgarian Socialist Party Alexander Lilov 33.14 106 Movement for Rights and Freedoms Ahmed Dogan 7.55 24 Prime Minister Dimitar Popov Independent (politician) Philip Dimitrov Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria) Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 13 October 1991.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p369 978-3-8329-5609-7 They were the first elections held under the country's first post-communist constitution, which had been promulgated three months earlier. Voter turnout was 84%.Nohlen & Stöver, p382 The Union of Democratic Forces (SDS) emerged as the largest party, winning 110 of the 240 seats.1992 Election Watch https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/225544 Journal of Democracy 3 1 123–126 1086-3214 The Bulgarian Socialist Party, the successor to the Communist Party, finished a close second with 106 seats. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which represented the ethnic-Turkish minority, won 24 seats. None of the other 58 parties that contested the elections crossed the 4% electoral threshold necessary to win seats in parliament. Following the elections SDS leader Philip Dimitrov became Prime Minister, heading a coalition of the SDS and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms. It was the first noncommunist government in Bulgaria in 46 years. Results File:Bulgaria National Assembly 1991 v2.svg Union of Democratic Forces 1903567 110 Pre-electoral Union of BSP, BLP, OPT 1836050 106 Movement for Rights and Freedoms 418168 24 Bulgarian Agrarian National Union–United 214052 0 Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union "Nikola Petkov" 190454 0 Union of Democratic Forces–Centre 177295 0 Union of Democratic Forces–Liberal (DP–ZP) 155902 0 Kingdom of Bulgaria Federation 100883 0 Bulgarian Business Bloc 73379 0 Bulgarian National Radical Party 62462 0 Bulgarian Business Party 51497 0 Freedom Coalition for the Turnovo Constitution 39719 0 Bulgarian Communist Party 39386 0 Political Transformation Forum 30442 0 Movement of Non-partisans for Democracy 22588 0 Liberal Party – Pernik 18577 0 Coalition BNS, BOP and BNSND 17262 0 Bulgarian National Democratic Party 15399 0 Liberal Congress Party 14454 0 National Patrotic Union Party 14288 0 Bulgarian Democratic Party 13767 0 Independent Democratic Party 12770 0 Free Cooperative Party 12150 0 Union of Non-partisan Guarantors 9945 0 Bulgarian Revolutionary Party of Youth – Varna 8133 0 Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists 7663 0 Radical Christian Party 6399 0 Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party 5916 0 Bulgarian Eagle Party 4853 0 Bulgarian Worker-Rural Party – Varna 3793 0 Organisation of Invalids and Underprivileged Citizens of Bulgaria 3362 0 Free Democratic Party 1758 0 Bulgarian Democratic Party for European and World States 984 0 Party for Free Democracy – Centre 866 0 United Democratic Union 'Party for Justice' 30 0 Party of Proprietors of Bulgaria 8 0 Christian Radical Democratic Party 5 0 Independents 52617 0 153921 6790006 Nohlen & Stöver, University of Essex References Bulgaria Parliamentary Parliamentary Category:Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Bulgaria