1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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All 240 seats in the National Assembly
121 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

58.87%

	Leader	Vote %	Seats	+/–
ODS	Ivan Kostov	52.26	137	+68
KzB	Georgi Parvanov	22.07	58	−67
DPS	Ahmed Dogan	7.60	19	+4
BEL	Aleksandar Tomov	5.50	14	New
BBB	George Ganchev	4.93	12	−1

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Results by constituency

Prime Minister before	Prime Minister after
Stefan Sofiyanski SDS (Sofiyanski Government)	Ivan Kostov ODS (Kostov Government)

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 19 April 1997. 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), which won 137 of the 240 seats. Following the election, SDS leader Ivan Kostov became prime minister.

Results



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 [bg] (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

Aftermath

Following the elections, Ivan Kostov formed the Kostov Government.

References

Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 369 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p372
Bulgaria: Elections held in 1997 Inter-Parliamentary Union

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