1981 Bulgarian parliamentary election

none Bulgaria 1971 1976 1986 7 June 1981 All 400 seats in the Grand National Assembly 99.96% yes Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov 271 272 Bulgarian Agrarian National Union Petar Tanchev 99 100 Independents – 30 28 PM Stanko Todorov Bulgarian Fatherland Front Grisha Filipov Bulgarian Fatherland Front Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 7 June 1981.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p369 978-3-8329-5609-7 The Fatherland Front, dominated by the Bulgarian Communist Party, was the only organisation to contest the election; all candidate lists had to be approved by the Front.Bulgaria: a country study. Library of Congress Federal Research Division, December 1989. The Front nominated one candidate for each constituency. Of the 400 candidates 271 were members of the Communist Party, 99 were members of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the remaining 30 were unaffiliated.Bulgaria Inter-Parliamentary Union Voter turnout was reportedly 99.9%.Nohlen & Stöver, p382 Results File:Bulgaria Grand National Assembly 1981.svg FatherlandFront 3 Bulgarian Communist Party 6519674 3 271 –1 Bulgarian Agrarian National Union 99 –1 Independents 30 +2 Against 517 3835 0 6526782 Nohlen & Stöver References Bulgaria Category:Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Category:One-party elections Category:Single-candidate elections Parliamentary Bulgaria