1913 Bulgarian parliamentary election
24 November 1913
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| Turnout | 55.01% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 24 November 1913.[1] to elect members of the XVI Ordinary National Assembly. The result was a victory for the ruling Liberal Concentration, an alliance of the Liberal Party (Radoslavists), the People's Liberal Party and the Young Liberals Party, won a plurality of votes and seats. Voter turnout was 55%.[2] For the first time in Bulgarian history the election was held under proportional representation in all twelve of Bulgaria's pre-Balkan wars regions. Citizens in the newly annexed territories could not vote.
Results
| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |||
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| Liberal Concentration | Liberal Party | 207,763 | 38.68 | 60 | +53 | ||
| People's Liberal Party | 27 | +21 | |||||
| Young Liberals Party | 7 | +6 | |||||
| Bulgarian Agrarian National Union | 113,761 | 21.18 | 48 | +44 | |||
| Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (united) | 55,157 | 10.27 | 19 | +19 | |||
| Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) | 54,217 | 10.10 | 18 | +18 | |||
| Democratic Party | 42,971 | 8.00 | 14 | +10 | |||
| People's Party | 24,994 | 4.65 | 5 | –95 | |||
| Radical Democratic Party | 24,007 | 4.47 | 5 | +5 | |||
| Progressive Liberal Party | 12,513 | 2.33 | 1 | –90 | |||
| Others | 1,684 | 0.31 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 537,067 | 100.00 | 204 | –9 | |||
| Valid votes | 537,067 | 98.83 | |||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 6,383 | 1.17 | |||||
| Total votes | 543,450 | 100.00 | |||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 987,832 | 55.01 | |||||
| Source: Zhivkov[3] | |||||||
Aftermath
The ruling Liberal Concentration failed to win a majority of seats. Foreign minister and NLP leader Nikola Genadiev resigned in December 1913 in protest of the government's strongly pro-Triple Alliance foreign policy and later formed his own party. However most of the NLP, under the new leadership of Dobri Petkov, remained in government. Despite protests from many opposition MPs, early elections were called shortly afterwards and held in February 1914.[4]
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p378
- ^ Svetoslav Zhivkov (2022). The proportional representation. Elections and electoral legislature in Bulgaria on the eve of the First World War. pp. 436–443.
- ^ Kumanov, Milen. Political organizations and movements in Bulgaria and their leaders 1879-1949, Sofia 1991.