1920 Bulgarian parliamentary election

none Bulgaria 28 March 1920 1919 April 1923 All 229 seats in the National Assembly 115 77.26% Bulgaria April 1920 legislative election.svg Bulgarian Agrarian National Union Aleksandar Stamboliyski 38.56 110 77 Bulgarian Communist Party Dimitar Blagoev 20.39 50 47 Democratic Party (Bulgaria) Aleksandar Malinov 10.07 24 28 People's Party (Bulgaria) Ivan Evstratiev Geshov 6.81 14 19 BRSDP (united) Yanko Sakazov 6.12 9 38 PLP Stoyan Danev 5.13 8 8 Radical Democratic Party (Bulgaria) Stoyan Kustorkov bg Стоян Костурков 4.63 8 8 PLP–Genadiev Nikola Genadiev bg Никола Генадиев 2.96 2 1 PLP–Petkov Dobri Petkov bg Добри Петков 0.86 4 2 Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski Stamboliyski I (BZNS) Aleksandar Stamboliyski Stamboliyski I (BZNS) Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 28 March 1920Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 978-3-8329-5609-7 to elect members of the XIX Ordinary National Assembly. It was compulsory to vote.Richard J. Crampton (2007) Bulgaria, Oxford/New York (NY), p224 The result was a victory for the ruling Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BZNS), which won 110 of the 229 seats. Voter turnout was 77%.Nohlen & Stöver, p379 Results Bulgarian Agrarian National Union 349212 110 Bulgarian Communist Party 184616 50 Democratic Party 91177 23 People's Party 61647 12 BRSDP (united) 55452 9 Progressive Liberal Party 46478 7 Radical Democratic Party 41930 8 NLP Genadiev 26819 2 Liberal Party–NLP Petkov–Young Liberals Party2 seats for NLP Petkov 14469 2 Democratic Party-People's Party1 seat for the Democratic Party and 1 for the People's Party 8242 2 People's Party–Progressive Liberal Party1 seat for the People's Party and 1 for the Progressive Liberal Party 8065 2 NLP Petkov 7785 1 NLP Petkov + NLP Genadiev1 seat for NLP Petkov 4933 1 Liberal Party–NLP Petkov 1541 0 Liberal Party–Young Liberals Party 3205 0 Other BZNS groups 47 0 9554 1184577 –7 National Statistical Institutehttps://statlib.nsi.bg/bg/v/NSI010000744 Statistique des elections des deputes pour la XVII-eme, XVIII-eme et XIX-eme Assemblees nationales ordinaires. NSI 1928 80, 85, 89 Aftermath The BZNS government annulled the election of 13 deputies – nine of them Communists – which gave them a majority in parliament. The government oversaw significant agrarian reforms - the amount of state-owned land was increased, household landownership was limited to 300 decars, land was distributed to refugees from Thrace and Macedonia, while salaries for members of the intelligentsia (teachers, doctors, lawyers and the military) were decreased. The Labor Service Act required 12 months of mandatory community service for male citizens over 20 and 6 months for female citizens over 16. Bulgaria became the first former member of the Central Powers to be accepted into the League of Nations in 1920. Due to the government's friendly relationship with Yugoslavia (later resulting in the signing of the Treaty of Niš), defense minister Alexander Dimitrov was murdered by the VMRO in 1921. Church institutions were placed under state control in 1922. The leaders of the opposition Constitutional Bloc were arrested and given large prison sentences.Tsurakov, Angel. Encyclopedia of Governments, National Assemblies, and Assassinations in Bulgaria. Sofia, Trud Publishing House, 2008. ISBN 954-528-790-X, p. 138-146. In September 1922 Interior minister Rayko Daskalov proposed an electoral reform that would make the results proportional in each administrative municipality, as opposed to province, which would result in a larger majority for the more consolidated BZNS. The government resigned and snap elections were called shortly after the law was approved in late February 1923.https://hermesbg.org/tr/nova-biblioteka/kniga-19/436-zakonnata-krazhba-na-glasovete-ot-1923-g.html Законната кражба на гласовете от 1923 г. 30 September 2010 Notes References Bulgaria Category:Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Bulgaria Parliamentary