Bulgaria
parliamentary elections
05/07/2009
Sources: SETimes; electionguide.org
Election Summary
Based on 100% of the ballots, the Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) took 39.7% of the proportional vote, entitling it to 90 parliamentary seats. It also won 26 of all 31 mandates distributed separately via majority vote and is thus set to have 116 representatives in the new assembly.
Two of the parties in the outgoing tripartite coalition government -- the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) -- trailed far behind GERB, while the third, the National Movement for Stability and Progress, did not even pass the 4% threshold for entry in parliament.
The BSP, with 17.7%, will have 40 parliamentary seats. The MRF won 14.5% of the popular vote and five individual seats and will thus have 38 representatives in the new assembly.
The ultranationalist Ataka (Attack) party ended fourth with 9.4% and 21 seats, ahead of the Blue Coalition and the Order, Law and Justice Party.
Turnout was 60.2%, exceeding the 55.8% recorded in the 2005 parliamentary elections and the 37.5% in last month's European Parliament elections.