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List of Bulgarian constituencies

List of Bulgarian constituencies

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Bulgaria is divided into 31 multi-member constituencies for the purposes of elections to the National Assembly.

Seat distribution by constituency after the 2013 election.

Background

Bulgaria is divided into 28 provinces. Most of these correspond exactly to the constituencies, but Sofia City Province is divided in 3 and Plovdiv Province is divided in 2.[1] Plovdiv Province is divided between the 16th MMC (consisting of the City of Plovdiv) and the 17th MMC (consisting of the rest of the province). Sofia City Province (not to be confused with Sofia Province) is divided between the 23rd (southern Sofia), 24th (central and eastern Sofia), and 25th (western Sofia) MMCs.

In addition to their names, constituencies are numbered from 1 to 31 according to their order in the Cyrillic alphabet. There are a total of 240 seats in the National Assembly, and each constituency elects between 4 (the guaranteed minimum number of seats in a constituency) and 16 members of parliament.

List of constituencies

Seat allocation by constituency

Below is the numbers of MPs allocated to each constituency by election year. The number of MPs in 2009 only adds up to 209 because of the electoral system experiment of that year (see further below).

MMC Constituency Seats
2005 2009* 2013 2014 2017[2]
1Blagoevgrad109111111
2Burgas1311141414
3Varna1412151515
4Veliko Tarnovo98888
5Vidin43444
6Vratsa76666
7Gabrovo44444
8Dobrich76666
9Kardzhali54555
10Kyustendil54444
11Lovech54555
12Montana65555
13Pazardzhik98999
14Pernik54444
15Pleven109999
16Plovdiv-city109111111
17Plovdiv-province1110111111
18Razgrad54444
19Ruse87888
20Silistra44444
21Sliven76666
22Smolyan44444
23Sofia-231311161616
24Sofia-241110121212
25Sofia-251210141414
26Sofia-province87888
27Stara Zagora1110111111
28Targovishte44444
29Haskovo87888
30Shumen65666
31Yambol54444
Total240209*240240240

2009 experiment

As an experiment, the 2009 election was conducted with a different electoral system than earlier elections. 31 out of the 240 MPs were elected through first-past-the-post voting, while the remaining 209 were elected through party-list proportional representation using the largest remainder method. This mixed electoral system was rejected for use in further elections, and the old system was returned in the next election in 2013.

The following 31 members of the National Assembly were elected through first-past-the-post in 2009:

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See also


Sources

  1. "Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Bulgarian National Assembly".
  2. Seat allocation by constituency in 2017, from the Central Election Commission of Bulgaria (in Bulgarian)

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