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1919 Bulgarian parliamentary election

1919 Bulgarian parliamentary election
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All 236 seats in the National Assembly
118 seats needed for a majority
Turnout54.53%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
BZNS Aleksandar Stamboliyski 27.35 77 +30
BRSDP (Narrow) Dimitar Blagoev 18.52 47 +36
BRSDP (Broad) Yanko Sakazov 13.06 38 +28
Democratic Alexander Malinov 10.39 28 −3
People's Ivan Evstratiev Geshov 8.98 19 +9
PLP Stoyan Danev 5.77 8 +6
RDP Stoyan Kustorkov [bg] 5.25 8 +3
BZNS factions[a] Dimitar Dragiev [bg] 4.24 8 New
PLP–Genadiev Nikola Genadiev [bg] 2.22 1 New
PLP–Petkov Dobri Petkov [bg] 2.07 2 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Teodor Teodorov
People's
Aleksandar Stamboliyski
BZNS

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 17 August 1919[1] to elect members of the XVIII Ordinary National Assembly. The result was a victory for the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, which won 77 of the 236 seats. Voter turnout was 55%.[2]

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union176,28127.3577+30
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists)119,39518.5247+36
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Broad Socialists)84,18513.0638+28
Democratic Party66,95310.3928–3
People's Party57,9078.9819+9
Progressive Liberal Party37,1785.778+6
Radical Democratic Party33,8615.258+3
Other BZNS groups[a]27,3494.248New
People's Liberal Party–Genadiev14,3072.221New
People's Liberal Party–Petkov13,3672.072New
Liberal Party (Radoslavists)[b]9,3131.440–83
Young Liberals Party4,0930.630–12
Others4570.070
Total644,646100.00236–9
Valid votes644,64698.22
Invalid/blank votes11,7081.78
Total votes656,354100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,203,74554.53
Source: National Statistical Institute[3]
  1. ^ a b Includes various BZNS splinters. All eight elected were from BZNS-Stara Zagora led by Dimitar Dragiev [bg].
  2. ^ Includes breakaways and Liberal–Young Liberals coalitions

References

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  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p379
  3. ^ Statistique des elections des deputes pour la XVII-eme, XVIII-eme et XIX-eme Assemblees nationales ordinaires. NSI. 1928. pp. 35, 49, 53.