1911 Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election

1911 Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election
Bulgaria
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5 June 1911
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All 426 seats in the Grand National Assembly
214 seats needed for a majority
Turnout54.01%
Party Leader Seats +/–
NP–PLP[a] Ivan Geshov 339 +333
BZNS Dimitar Dragiev [bg] 53 +30
LP (Radoslavists) Vasil Radoslavov 6 +1
BRSDP (united) Yanko Sakazov 5 +5
Radical Democratic Party Naycho Tsanov [bg] 4 +4
People's Liberal Nikola Genadiev [bg] 3 +2
Democratic Aleksandar Malinov 2 −164
BRSDP Dimitar Blagoev 1 +1
Independents 1 0
Vacant 12 +12
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Ivan Geshov
Geshov (NP–PLP)		 Ivan Geshov
Geshov (NP–PLP)

Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Bulgaria on 5 June 1911[1] to elect members of the V Grand National Assembly. The result was a victory for the ruling People's Party–Progressive Liberal Party alliance, which won 342 of the 410 seats. Voter turnout was 54.0%.[2]

Results

PartyVotes[b]%Seats
People's Party–Progressive Liberal Party1,182,88644.65339
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union507,24919.1550
Liberal Party–People's Liberal Party216,6848.185
Democratic Party131,2184.952
Liberal Party70,1462.652
Liberal Party–People's Liberal Party–Democratic Party69,1102.611
BRSDP (united)66,8252.520
Radical Democratic Party61,4582.324
BRSDP59,3842.241
People's Liberal Party44,8701.690
Young Liberals Party33,5171.270
BRSDP (united)-BZNS33,2271.2510
People's Party26,7041.016
People's Party–Progressive Liberal Party–Liberal Party23,0490.876
Liberal Party-NLP-MLP-Dem20,9420.790
Liberal Party-Dem16,1660.610
Progressive Liberal Party14,8700.560
BZNS-RDP-Dem12,4810.470
NLP-MLP11,8000.450
NLP-MLP-Dem-PLP breakaways-Independents10,8520.410
Liberal Party-MLP-BZNS7,9320.300
NLP-Dem6,6420.250
Liberal Party-NLP-Dem-Independents6,1530.230
NLP-BZNS5,4820.210
Liberal Party-NLP-MLP-Dem-People's Party (breakaways)3,4910.130
Dem-People's Party (breakaways)3,1930.120
NLP Breakaways3930.010
Democratic breakaways1330.010
Undetermined2,3480.090
Total2,649,205100.00426
Total votes556,782–
Registered voters/turnout1,030,81054.01
Source: National Statistical Institute[3]

Several MPs were elected in more than one constituency and were required to choose which one to represent when the Assembly convened, resulting in twelve seats being vacated. By-elections were not held.

Aftermath

Geshov's government in 1911, clockwise from the top left: Nikifor Nikiforov [bg], Anton Fragnya [bg], Petar Arabashev [bg], Dimitar Hristov [bg], Aleksandar Lyudskanov [bg], Stefan Bobchev [bg], Teodor Teodorov, with Geshov in the center

The ruling pro-Entente NP–PLP coalition led by Ivan Geshov won a majority and approved the constitutional changes prepared by the previous government, notably allowing the government and the monarch to approve secret treaties without Parliamentary oversight. Afterwards the Grand Assembly dissolved itself and Tsar Ferdinand scheduled elections for an Ordinary National Assembly for September.[4]

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p376
  3. ^ Statistique des elections des deputes pour la V-eme Grande assemblee nationale. NSI. 1914. pp. 15, 16, 24.
  4. ^ Tsurakov, Angel. Encyclopedia of Governments, National Assemblies, and Assassinations in Bulgaria. Sofia, Trud Publishing House, 2008. ISBN 954-528-790-X, p. 104-108.

Notes

  1. ^ People's Party - 176, Progressive Liberal Party - 163
  2. ^ Listed is the number of votes received for each party, not the number of individual voters. As most constituencies elected more than one MP, most voters cast more than one vote.
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