Bulgaria National Assembly election 2017 live Voting
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Bulgaria National Assembly election 2017 live Voting
Bulgaria National Assembly election Dates 2017
National Assembly Election Date: 26 March 2017
Parliamentary elections were due to be held in Bulgaria in 2018 at the end of the four-year term of the National Assembly. However, early elections will be held on 26 March 2017 following the resignation ofPrime Minister Boyko Borisov and the failure of Bulgarian parties to form a government. Borisov resigned following the defeat of Tsetska Tsacheva, the candidate of his GERB party, in the November 2016 presidential elections. The official election campaign began on February 24.
Bulgaria National Assembly election 2017 live Voting Updates
1. Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova congratulated former Prime Minister Boiko Borisov's GERB party as the election's winner.
2.Center-right party wins 32.6 percent in Bulgarian election, 90 percent of votes counted.
3.Bulgarian PM resigns after party defeated In presidential poll.
4.The Alpha Research exit poll said GERB won 32.2 percent of the vote, with the Socialist Party coming in second with 28 percent, while a separate exit poll by Gallup International Balkan had GERB with 32.8 percent and the Socialists with 28.4 percent.
5.The National Assembly Elections in the Republic of Bulgaria will be held on 26 March 2017. There will be 240 seats at stake in the National Assembly.
6.Bulgaria’s voters go to the polls on March 26 2017 in ahead-of-term elections for the 44th National Assembly, the country’s unicameral Parliament.
7. It is illegal to make public exit polls while voting is underway. This applies to newspapers, news websites, television and radio stations. Whether this applies to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter or to personal blogs is disputed – the majority of readings of electoral law conclude that it does not – and the 2016 presidential election saw the CEC call on media not to use their Facebook pages to post exit polls throughout voting day.
8.In spite of electoral law saying that there should be voting machines at all polling stations as an alternative to ballot papers, there will not be, a belated bid to acquire 13 000 machines having failed.
Bulgaria National Assembly election Results Live 2017
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Candidate |
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Electoral system of Bulgaria
The 240 members of the National Assembly are elected by open list proportional representation from 31 multi-member constituencies ranging in size from 4 to 16 seats. The electoral threshold is 4%.
A total of 371 voting sections will be opened in 70 foreign countries and territories. The Central Electoral Commission announced that they will not provide polling places in 9 countries because of various reasons. These included Afghanistan, Iraq, Libyaand Syria due to security concerns, as well as Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mongolia, North Korea and Pakistan due to a very low number of submitted requests from Bulgarian nationals living there.
Candidates for National Assembly Elections 2017
Slavi Binev – formerly a member of the European Parliament for Volen Siderov’s far-right Ataka party and once its candidate for mayor of Sofia – is standing as a candidate for the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the party led and supported in the main by Bulgarians of Turkish ethnicity.
Bulgaria Parties and leaders
GERB (GERB), Bulgarian Socialist Party (Bǎlgarska sotsialisticheska partiya), Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Dvizhenie za prava i svobodi), Agrarian People's Union (Zemedelski naroden sǎyuz).
Bulgaria Last Election Results
Party |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
+/– |
GERB |
1,072,491 |
32.67 |
84 |
–13 |
BSP – Left Bulgaria |
505,527 |
15.40 |
39 |
–45 |
Movement for Rights and Freedoms |
487,134 |
14.84 |
38 |
+2 |
Reformist Bloc |
291,806 |
8.89 |
23 |
+23 |
Patriotic Front |
239,101 |
7.28 |
19 |
+19 |
Bulgaria without Censorship |
186,938 |
5.69 |
15 |
New |
Attack |
148,262 |
4.52 |
11 |
–12 |
Alternative for Bulgarian Revival |
136,223 |
4.15 |
11 |
New |
Movement 21 |
39,221 |
1.20 |
0 |
New |
People's Voice |
37,335 |
1.14 |
0 |
0 |
The Greens |
19,990 |
0.61 |
0 |
0 |
Republic BG |
18,901 |
0.58 |
0 |
New |
New Bulgaria |
12,628 |
0.39 |
0 |
New |
New Alternative |
11 583 |
0.35 |
0 |
0 |
United Bulgaria |
10,831 |
0.33 |
0 |
New |
Bulgarian Social Democracy |
9,431 |
0.29 |
0 |
New |
National Movement for Stability and Progress |
7,917 |
0.24 |
0 |
New |
Party of the Greens |
7,456 |
0.23 |
0 |
New |
The Rights |
7,234 |
0.22 |
0 |
New |
Left and the Green Party |
7,010 |
0.21 |
0 |
0 |
New Democracy |
5,559 |
0.17 |
0 |
New |
New Force |
5,553 |
0.17 |
0 |
New |
Social Democratic Party |
5,398 |
0.16 |
0 |
0 |
Community for New Bulgaria |
4,615 |
0.14 |
0 |
New |
New Time |
3,836 |
0.12 |
0 |
New |
Invalid/blank votes |
218,125 |
– |
– |
– |
Total |
3,501,269 |
100 |
240 |
0 |
Registered voters/turnout |
6,858,304 |
51.05 |
– |
– |
Source: CIK |