1931 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 21 June 1931. The result was a victory for the Popular Bloc, an alliance of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Dragiev), the Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party (Petrov) and the Radical Democratic Party, which won 151 of the 273 seats. Voter turnout was 85.2%.

This would be the last officially partisan election held in Bulgaria before World War II (the 1939 elections were officially nonpartisan, but candidates representing parties ran as individuals). By the time of the next elections in which parties were formally allowed to take part, in 1945, the country had been through two dictatorships and a third, Communist one was rapidly consolidating. As a result, the 1931 election was also the last free election held in the country until 1990.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Popular Bloc (BZNS (Dragiev)–DP–NLP (Petrov)–RDP)	626,553	48.45	151	+105
	Democratic Alliance–National Liberal Party	403,686	31.21	78	−96
	Bulgarian Communist Party	168,281	13.01	31	New
	United Labour Social Democratic Party	27,323	2.11	0	New
	Socialist Federation	26,501	2.05	0	New
	BZNS (Tomov)–Craftsmen–Radical Democratic Party	20,805	1.61	0	−6
	United People's Progressive Party	8,152	0.63	0	0
	Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization			8	+1
	Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)			5	−5
	Independents	11,980	0.93	0	0
Total		1,293,281	100.00	273	+12

Valid votes		1,293,281	98.31
Invalid/blank votes		22,228	1.69
Total votes		1,315,509	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,543,847	85.21
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p380
Bulgaria: a country study. Library of Congress Federal Research Division, December 1989.

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