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| Turnout | 83.87% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 13 October 1991. They were the first elections held under the country's first post-communist constitution, which had been promulgated three months earlier.
The result was a victory for the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), which won 110 of the 240 seats. The Bulgarian Socialist Party, the successor to the Communist Party, finished a close second with 106 seats. Voter turnout was 83.9%. Following the election, SDS leader Philip Dimitrov became Prime Minister, heading a coalition of the SDS and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
| Union of Democratic Forces | 1,903,567 | 34.36 | 110 | |
| Pre-electoral Union of BSP, BLP, OPT | 1,836,050 | 33.14 | 106 | |
| Movement for Rights and Freedoms | 418,168 | 7.55 | 24 | |
| Bulgarian Agrarian National Union–United | 214,052 | 3.86 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union "Nikola Petkov" | 190,454 | 3.44 | 0 | |
| Union of Democratic Forces–Centre | 177,295 | 3.20 | 0 | |
| Union of Democratic Forces–Liberal (DP–ZP) | 155,902 | 2.81 | 0 | |
| Kingdom of Bulgaria Federation | 100,883 | 1.82 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Business Bloc | 73,379 | 1.32 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian National Radical Party | 62,462 | 1.13 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Business Party | 51,497 | 0.93 | 0 | |
| Freedom Coalition for the Turnovo Constitution | 39,719 | 0.72 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Communist Party | 39,386 | 0.71 | 0 | |
| Political Transformation Forum | 30,442 | 0.55 | 0 | |
| Movement of Non-partisans for Democracy | 22,588 | 0.41 | 0 | |
| Liberal Party – Pernik | 18,577 | 0.34 | 0 | |
| Coalition BNS, BOP and BNSND | 17,262 | 0.31 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian National Democratic Party | 15,399 | 0.28 | 0 | |
| Liberal Congress Party | 14,454 | 0.26 | 0 | |
| National Patrotic Union Party | 14,288 | 0.26 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Democratic Party | 13,767 | 0.25 | 0 | |
| Independent Democratic Party | 12,770 | 0.23 | 0 | |
| Free Cooperative Party | 12,150 | 0.22 | 0 | |
| Union of Non-partisan Guarantors | 9,945 | 0.18 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Revolutionary Party of Youth – Varna | 8,133 | 0.15 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists | 7,663 | 0.14 | 0 | |
| Radical Christian Party | 6,399 | 0.12 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party | 5,916 | 0.11 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Eagle Party | 4,853 | 0.09 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Worker-Rural Party – Varna | 3,793 | 0.07 | 0 | |
| Organisation of Invalids and Underprivileged Citizens of Bulgaria | 3,362 | 0.06 | 0 | |
| Free Democratic Party | 1,758 | 0.03 | 0 | |
| Bulgarian Democratic Party for European and World States | 984 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Party for Free Democracy – Centre | 866 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| United Democratic Union 'Party for Justice' | 30 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Party of Proprietors of Bulgaria | 8 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Christian Radical Democratic Party | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Independents | 52,617 | 0.95 | 0 | |
| Total | 5,540,843 | 100.00 | 240 | |
| Valid votes | 5,540,843 | 97.30 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 153,921 | 2.70 | ||
| Total votes | 5,694,764 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 6,790,006 | 83.87 | ||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver, University of Essex | ||||
References
- Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p369 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Nohlen & Stöver, p382
