1997_Bulgarian_parliamentary_election

1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election
	All 240 seats in the National Assembly; 121 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	58.87%
	Results by constituency
Stefan Sofiyanski; SDS	Ivan Kostov; ODS

1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 19 April 1997.^[1] The result was a victory for the United Democratic Forces (an alliance of the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), the Democratic Party, the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union-Nikola Petkov and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party),^[2] which won 137 of the 240 seats. Following the election, SDS leader Ivan Kostov became Prime Minister.^[3]

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Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 369 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

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Nohlen & Stöver, p372

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Bulgaria: Elections held in 1997 Inter-Parliamentary Union

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Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	United Democratic Forces	2,223,714	52.26	137	+68
	Democratic Left	939,308	22.07	58	−67
	Union for National Salvation (DPS–ZP–BZNS(NP)–PDC–NI–FCB)	323,429	7.60	19	+4
	Bulgarian Euro-Left	234,058	5.50	14	New
	Bulgarian Business Bloc	209,796	4.93	12	−1
	Communist Party of Bulgaria	50,864	1.20	0	0
	Alliance for the King	46,765	1.10	0	New
	Bulgarian Christian Coalition	26,614	0.63	0	New
	Democratic Party of Justice	20,433	0.48	0	0
	Party of Bulgarian Women	16,061	0.38	0	New
	Liberal Forum	13,638	0.32	0	New
	Crowned Democracy	11,747	0.28	0	0
	Bulgarian Workers' Socialist Party	10,152	0.24	0	New
	Bulgarian Agrarian National Union–Centre	10,062	0.24	0	New
	Democratic Alternative for the Republic	9,664	0.23	0	0
	Bulgarian Party of Liberals	7,281	0.17	0	New
	Bulgarian National-Radical Party	7,099	0.17	0	0
	Bulgarian National Democratic Party	6,875	0.16	0	New
	Popular Patriotic Left Front	6,795	0.16	0	New
	Bulgarian Workers-Agrarian Party	6,754	0.16	0	0
	Union for Democratic Development	6,377	0.15	0	New
	Christian Democratic Union	5,912	0.14	0	0
	Forward Bulgaria Coalition	5,886	0.14	0	0
	Free Cooperative Party	5,534	0.13	0	0
	Democratic League	4,386	0.10	0	New
	New Democracy	3,720	0.09	0	New
	Transfiguration Forum	3,654	0.09	0	0
	Bulgarian Democratic Party for European and World States	3,614	0.08	0	0
	Bulgarian National Ecological Party – Veliko Turnovo	3,437	0.08	0	New
	Bulgarian Green Federation	3,347	0.08	0	New
	Bulgarian Revolutionary Youth Party	2,446	0.06	0	0
	Bulgarian National Movement for the Eternal Path	2,438	0.06	0	New
	Bulgarian Fatherland Party – National Union	2,301	0.05	0	0
	Front of Progressive Forces in Bulgaria	1,135	0.03	0	0
	Alliance of the Nation – Movement of the Downtrodden	670	0.02	0	0
	Independents	19,335	0.45	0	0
Total		4,255,301	100.00	240	0

Valid votes		4,255,301	99.16
Invalid/blank votes		35,956	0.84
Total votes		4,291,257	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		7,289,956	58.87
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, University of Essex

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1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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