1971 Bulgarian parliamentary election

none Bulgaria 1971 1966 1976 27 June 1971 All 400 seats in the Grand National Assembly 99.85% yes yes Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov 268 Bulgarian Agrarian National Union Georgi Traykov 100 Independents – 32 Prime Minister Todor Zhivkov Bulgarian Fatherland Front Stanko Todorov Bulgarian Fatherland Front Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 27 June 1971,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 978-3-8329-5609-7 the first held under the new Zhivkov Constitution, which had been approved in a referendum held a month earlier.Bulgaria Inter-Parliamentary Union 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 268 were members of the Communist Party, 100 were members of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the remaining 32 were unaffiliated. Voter turnout was reportedly 99.9%.Nohlen & Stöver, p381 Results File:Bulgaria Grand National Assembly 1971.svg FatherlandFront 3 Bulgarian Communist Party 6154082 3 268 Bulgarian Agrarian National Union 100 Independents 32 Against 1487 4373 6168931 Nohlen & Stöver, IPU References Bulgaria Parliamentary Category:Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Category:One-party elections Category:Single-candidate elections Parliamentary Bulgaria