1996_Bulgarian_presidential_election

1996 Bulgarian presidential election
Turnout	63.14% (first round); 61.45% (second round)
President before election; Zhelyu Zhelev; SDS	Elected President ; Petar Stoyanov; ODS

1996 Bulgarian presidential election

Presidential election in Bulgaria

Presidential elections were held in Bulgaria on 27 October 1996, with a second round on 3 November.^[1] The result was a victory for Petar Stoyanov of the United Democratic Forces, who won 59.7% of the vote in the second round. Voter turnout was 63.3% in the first round and 61.8% in the second.^[2]

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[NS-1] [1]
Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p369 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

[DNPS-2] [2]
Nohlen & Stöver, p388

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Candidate		Running mate	Party	First round		Second round
Candidate		Running mate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Petar Stoyanov	Todor Kavaldzhiev	United Democratic Forces	1,889,825	44.07	2,502,517	59.73
	Ivan Marazov	Irina Bokova	Bulgarian Socialist Party	1,158,204	27.01	1,687,242	40.27
	George Ganchev	Arlin Antonov	Bulgarian Business Bloc	937,686	21.87
	Aleksandar Tomov	Ludmil Marinchevski	Independent	135,571	3.16
	Hristo Boychev	Ivan Kulekov	Movement for the Protection of Retired Unemployed and Poor People	57,668	1.34
	Vera Ilieva	Iskra Atanasova	Bulgarian Communist Party	34,004	0.79
	Slavomir Tsankov	Dobri Dobrev	Union of Democratic Forces and Movements "Era 3"	22,724	0.53
	Ivan Stoyanov	Rumyana Yakimova	Democratic Party in Bulgaria	14,659	0.34
	Mincho Minchev	Pencho Penchev	Patriotic Party of Labour	13,567	0.32
	Mitko Dimitrov	Ignat Ignatov	Alliance for the Preservation of Bulgaria's Wealth	7,793	0.18
	Lyubomir Stefanov	Parush Karaivanov	Alternative Socialist Alliance	6,056	0.14
	Dimitar Markovski	Dimitrina Vuldzhieva	Free Cooperative Party	5,823	0.14
	Iliyan Nikolov	Sergey Nemtserov	Bulgarian National Ecological Party	4,920	0.11
Total				4,288,500	100.00	4,189,759	100.00

Valid votes				4,288,500	99.33	4,189,759	99.40
Invalid/blank votes				28,908	0.67	25,416	0.60
Total votes				4,317,408	100.00	4,215,175	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				6,837,737	63.14	6,859,318	61.45
Source: President of Bulgaria

1996_Bulgarian_presidential_election

1996 Bulgarian presidential election

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