2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election

none Bulgaria 2005 2013 All 240 seats in the 41st National Assembly 5 July 2009 121 60.64% GERB Boyko Borisov 39.72 new 116 Coalition for Bulgaria Sergei Stanishev 17.70 82 40 Movement for Rights and Freedoms Ahmed Dogan 14.45 34 38 Attack (political party) Volen Siderov 9.36 21 21 Blue Coalition M. Dimitrov & I. Kostov 6.76 New 15 Order, Law and Justice Yane Yanev 4.13 new 10 x200px Most voted-for party by constituency x165px Seats won by constituency Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev BSP(Stanishev Government) Boyko Borisov GERB(First Borisov Government)right|thumb|300px|The leaders of GERB take their seats in front of reporters before giving a press conference after the election Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 5 July 2009.President Georgi Parvanov chooses 5th July 2009 for date of parliamentary electionsNovember 2016 InternetArchiveBot yes . Radio Bulgaria. April 29, 2009.Bulgaria elections. Election Guide. With 40% of the vote, the decisive winner of the elections was the established in 2006 personalistic party of Boyko Borisov, GERB. The Socialist Party, in power before the election, was in second place, with around 18%. Оnce-ruling National Movement Simeon II did not cross the 4% threshold and won no seats. The turnout was 60.6%, one of the lowest ever. Following the election, GERB leader Boyko Borisov became prime minister. Just like all the previous parliamentary elections since the fall of communism, the government was not re-elected. Background The 2009 elections saw the debut of a parallel voting system with a lesser plurality vote element. 209 of the 240 parliament seats were distributed according to the proportional system, while the remaining 31 (the number of voting constituencies in Bulgaria) were allocated for First Past the Post.http://dariknews.bg/view_article.php?article_id=371775 България избира 41-во Народно събрание Александрова Нина 2009-07-05 Darik News bg 2009-07-07 The ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party wanted to amend the electoral law, increasing state subsidies for political parties threefold (the reason for doing this would be making campaign financing more transparent, they claim), requiring registration in at least two-thirds of all electoral districts (thus eliminating most marginal parties).Junior ally supports Bulgarian ruling party's proposal for electoral reform. Southeast European Times. July 2, 2009. An electoral reform was passed in April 2009 with the votes of the BSP, the DPS, Ataka and Order, Law and Justice. It would raise the election threshold for alliances from 4% to 8% (which was widely seen as a move against the opposition electoral alliance of DSB and SDS, which was polling around 7.3% at that time) and established that 31 of the 240 seats would be elected by majority vote.Neue Acht-Prozent-Hürde für Parteibündnisse. Der Standard. April 14, 2009.Kyustendil Mayor Quits Bulgarian Rightist Coalition https://web.archive.org/web/20110611192236/http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=23909 June 11, 2011 . Bulgarian News Network. March 31, 2009. President Georgi Parvanov returned the law to parliament for reconsideration, but as the parties had no plans to amend it and as he could only return the law once, he had to sign it before the election. After the law had been passed, the provision raising the electoral threshold was struck down by the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria.Bulgarian court blocks higher election threshold. Southeast European Times. May 13, 2009. The Blue Coalition was denied registration for the election by the Central Election Commission on 28 May 2009 due to a leadership struggle in the SDS, one of the two constituent parties. The Blue Coalition announced it would appeal the ruling.New Bulgarian coalition denied election registration. Southeast European Times. May 29, 2009 On 29 May 2009, the Supreme Administrative Court overturned the CEC's decision, allowing the Blue Coalition to contest the election.Blue Coalition allowed to take part in vote. Southeast European Times. May 31, 2009. Participating parties Parties standing in the election included:Централна избирателна комисия https://web.archive.org/web/20111007181816/http://cik2009.org/?resh=143 2011-10-07 . Central Election Commission. Order, Law and Justice (Ред, Законност, Справедливост) Lider (Лидер) GERB (ГЕРБ) Movement for Rights and Freedoms (ДПС) Attack (Атака) Coalition for Bulgaria (led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party) (Коалиция за България) Union of the Patriotic Forces "Defense" (Съюз на Патриотичните Сили "Защита") National Movement for Stability and Progress (formerly the National Movement Simeon II) (НДСВ) Coalition BANU (Коалиция БЗНС)(disqualified from the election) Bulgarian Left Coalition (Българска Лява Коалиция) Party of the Liberal Alternative and Peace (Партия на Либералната Алтернатива и Мира (ПЛАМ)) The Greens (ПП Зелените) Social Democrats (Социалдемократи) VMRO – Bulgarian National Movement (ВМРО – Българско Национално Движение)(disqualified from the election) The Other Bulgaria (ПП Другата България) Union of the Bulgarian Patriots (Обединение на Българските Патриоти) National Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland (Политическа партия "Национално движение за спасение на Отечеството") Bulgarian National Union – New Democracy (Български Национален Съюз – НД) Blue Coalition (Синята Коалиция) For the Homeland (За Родината – ДГИ-НЛ) Opinion polls The following are the polls for the proportional vote: Source Date Turnout GERB BSP DPS Ataka BC NDSV Lider RZSNCIOM3 July5529-3220-2213-149-118-95-5.55-5.54НЦИОМ: При 55% активност - ГЕРБ - 29 - 32%, БСП - 20 - 22%, ДПС - 13 - 14%June 2023 InternetArchiveBot yes . Bgfactor.com. July 3, 2009.Alpha Research1 July5633.919.514.198.14.24.54.1General Elections 2009 - Electoral Turnout https://web.archive.org/web/20090707014628/http://www.aresearch.org/general_election.html 2009-07-07 . Alpha Research. Results thumb|Results of the election, showing vote strength by electoral district. Top: results in FPTP constituencies. Bottom: results in proportional constituencies. thumb|Simple results of the FPTP constituencies. File:2009 Bulgarian National Assembly composition chart.svg Proportional Constituency GERB 1678641 90 1554609 26 116 New Coalition for Bulgaria 748147 40 792218 0 40 −42 Movement for Rights and Freedoms 610521 33 346431 5 38 +4 Attack 395733 21 372608 0 21 0 Blue Coalition 285662 15 258190 0 15 −22 Order, Law and Justice 174582 10 167011 0 10 New Lider 137795 0 153980 0 0 New National Movement for Stability and Progress 127470 0 169098 0 0 –53 The Greens 21841 0 26130 0 0 New For the Homeland 11524 0 365 0 0 – Bulgarian Left Coalition bg Българска лява коалиция 8762 0 12047 0 0 – Union of the Patriotic Forces "Defense" 6368 0 7372 0 0 – Political Movement "Social Democrats" 5004 0 2581 0 0 New Bulgarian New Democracy 3813 0 4479 0 0 New The Other Bulgaria 3455 0 164 0 0 New Party of the Liberal Alternative and Peace 2828 0 117 0 0 – Union of Bulgarian Patriots bg Обединение на българските патриоти 2175 0 4463 0 0 – National Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland 1874 0 3289 0 0 New Independents 70676 0 0 0 97387 0 7129965 CIK, The following members were elected through first past the post voting in 31 single-member constituencies: Constituency MemberParty Blagoevgrad Lyben Tatarski GERB Burgas Bozhidar Stoyanov GERB Varna Krasimir Petrov GERB Veliko Tarnovo Tsvetan Tsvetanov GERB Vidin Lyubomila Stanislavova GERB Vratsa Nikolay Kotsev GERB Gabrovo Galina Bankovska GERB Dobrich Rumen Ivanov GERB Kardzhali Ahmed Dogan DPS Kyustendil Valentin Mikev GERB Lovech Anatoliy Yordanov GERB Montana Plamen Tsekov GERB Pazardzhik Ivan Ivanov GERB Pernik Irena Sokolova GERB Pleven Tsetska Tsacheva GERB Plovdiv City Menda Stoyanova GERB Plovdiv Oblast Dimitar Lazarov GERB Razgrad Hasan Ademov DPS Ruse Plamen Nunev GERB Silistra Mithat Tabakov DPS Sliven Desislava Taneva GERB Smolyan Daniela Daritkova-Prodanova GERB Sofia 23 Boris Grozdanov GERB Sofia 24 Monika Panayotova GERB Sofia 25 Krasimir Velchev GERB Sofia-province Emil Dimitrov GERB Stara Zagora Ivan Kolev GERB Targovishte Kasim Dal DPS Haskovo Delyan Dobrev GERB Shumen Georgi Kolev DPS Yambol Anastas Anastasov GERB Aftermath The elections were decisively won by Boyko Borisov's GERB party, which gained 39.72% of the proportional vote and 26 of the 31 majority vote parliament seats, in total 116 and almost half of the Assembly's 240 seats. Until the elections Borisov was Mayor of Sofia and left office to become prime minister, until 2005 he was a member of the former king Simeon II's National Movement for Stability and Progress party and before he was also a member of the Communist Party, though he and his party's policy are opposite to the Communist. The ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party-headed Coalition for Bulgaria gathered 17.70% but no majority vote seats. The Muslim minority's party Movement for Rights and Freedoms amassed 14.45% and won the remaining five majority vote seats, the nationalist party Attack came fourth with 9.36% of the proportional vote, followed by the right-wing Blue Coalition of former ruling elements with 6.76% and the newly Order, Law and Justice, whose tally was at 4.13%. Parties such as Lider and Saxe-Coburg Gotha's once-ruling NDSV did not cross the 4% threshold and won no seats.http://rezultati.cik2009.bg/results/proportional/index.html Резултати за страната при обработени 100.00% протоколи на СИК в РИК 2009-07-07 ЦИК 2009-07-07 bg dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090707220209/http://rezultati.cik2009.bg/results/proportional/index.html 2009-07-07 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8134851.stm Bulgaria opposition wins election 2009-07-06 BBC 2009-07-07 The voter turnout of 60.20%http://rezultati.cik2009.bg/activity/rik_00.html Избирателна активност за страната към края на изборния ден Централна избирателна комисия bg 2009-07-08 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090708054815/http://rezultati.cik2009.bg/activity/rik_00.html 2009-07-08 was perceived as high, but was not unexpected.http://www.ekipnews.com/?p=15486 Висока избирателна активност на изборите прогнозират социолози 2009-07-04 Екип Нюз bg 2009-07-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20110710174728/http://www.ekipnews.com/?p=15486 2011-07-10 dead As a result of the election, the government was formed by GERB alone with Boyko Borisov as Prime Minister. BSP and DPS, two of the members of the former centre-left ruling coalition, were put in opposition.http://www.dnes.bg/izbori2009/2009/07/05/pyrvoto-obeshtanie-na-gerb-nov-izbiratelen-kodeks.73813 Борисов ще е премиер, остана без часовник заради бас 2009-07-05 Dnes.bg bg 2009-07-07http://dnevnik.bg/izbori2009/parlamentarni_izbori/2009/07/06/751108_borisov_obeshta_burz_kabinet_i_sukrashteniia_na_visshi/ Борисов обеща бърз кабинет и съкращения на висши чиновници 2009-07-06 Дневник bg 2009-07-07 Due to the party's failure in the elections, not electing a single member of parliament, former Tsar and more recently prime minister resigned as NDSV leader on 6 July.Bulgaria Former Tsar, PM Saxe-Coburg Resigns as Party Leader, Novinite, Sofia, 6 July, 2009.Accessed: 10 October 2009. While Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev took the responsibility for the socialists' electoral failure, he did not resign as party leader and continued to lead the party in opposition through to the next election.http://www.dnevnik.bg/izbori2009/2009/07/06/750412_stanishev_nosia_otgovornost_za_vsichko_no_niama_da/ Станишев: Нося отговорност за всичко, но няма да подам оставка Борисова Биляна 2009-07-06 Дневник bg 2009-07-07 See also List of political parties in Bulgaria List of Bulgarian constituencies References External links NSD: European Election Database - Bulgaria https://web.archive.org/web/20160320184822/http://www.nsd.uib.no/european_election_database/country/bulgaria/ 2016-03-20 publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1990-2009 Bulgaria Parliamentary Category:Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria