1976 Bulgarian parliamentary election

none Bulgaria 1971 1971 1981 30 May 1976 All 400 seats in the Grand National Assembly 99.93% yes Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov 272 268 Bulgarian Agrarian National Union Petar Tanchev 100 100 Independents – 28 32 PM Stanko Todorov Bulgarian Fatherland Front Stanko Todorov Bulgarian Fatherland Front Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 30 May 1976.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 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 272 were members of the Communist Party, 100 were members of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the remaining 28 were unaffiliated.Bulgaria Inter-Parliamentary Union Voter turnout was reportedly 99.9%.Nohlen & Stöver, p382 Results File:Bulgaria Grand National Assembly 1976.svg FatherlandFront 3 Bulgarian Communist Party 6369762 3 272 +4 Bulgarian Agrarian National Union 100 0 Independents 28 –4 Against 780 4461 0 6379348 Nohlen & Stöver, IPU References Bulgaria Category:Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Category:One-party elections Category:Single-candidate elections Parliamentary Bulgaria