1911 Bulgarian parliamentary election

1911 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Bulgaria
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4 September 1911
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All 213 seats in the National Assembly
107 seats needed for a majority
Turnout47.20%
Party Leader Seats +/–
NP–PLP Ivan Geshov 191 −148
LP (Radoslavists) Vasil Radoslavov 7 +1
People's Liberal Nikola Genadiev [bg] 6 +3
Democratic Aleksandar Malinov 4 +2
BZNS Dimitar Dragiev [bg] 4 −49
MLP Dimitar Tonchev [bg] 1 +1
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)

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 4 September 1911.[1] to elect members of the XV Ordinary National Assembly. The result was a victory for the ruling People's Party–Progressive Liberal Party alliance, which won a majority of the 213 seats. Voter turnout was 47%.[2]

Results

PartyVotes[a]%Seats
People's Party–Progressive Liberal Party936,28550.35183
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union256,79113.814
Liberal Party131,7237.084
People's Liberal Party121,1456.524
Democratic Party112,7266.064
Radical Democratic Party52,4032.820
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (United)52,3312.810
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists)48,8892.630
Liberal Party–People's Liberal Party–Democratic Party25,1671.352
People's Party22,4701.214
Young Liberals Party20,9761.131
Liberal Party–People's Liberal Party19,1451.032
Progressive Liberal Party18,8441.012
People's Party–PLP breakaways9,3670.500
People's Party–Progressive Liberal Party–Liberal Party8,8890.483
Liberal Party–Bulgarian Agrarian National Union5,9860.320
Young Liberals Party–Democratic Party5,2040.280
Progressive Liberal Party–Liberal Party–Democratic Party3,1760.170
BZNS breakaways2,0830.110
People's Liberal breakaways2,0800.110
Progressive Liberal Party–Democratic Party2,0480.110
People's Liberal Party–Young Liberals Party9680.050
Independent7230.040
Total1,859,419100.00213
Total votes504,439–
Registered voters/turnout1,068,61447.20
Source: National Statistical Institute[3]

By-elections

One MP [bg] was elected in two constituencies and one MP did not take up his seat in order to hold state office (both from the People's Party elected on the NP-PLP list). By-elections were held on 27 May 1912, one seat was won by the broad socialists and one by the NP-PLP coalition (Yanko Sakazov and Grigor Kotsov).[3]

PartySeats
NP–PLP[b]190
LP (Radoslavists)7
People's Liberal6
Democratic4
BZNS4
Young Liberals Party1
BRSDP (united)1
Total213

Aftermath

Geshov's government in 1912: Hristo Todorov [bg], Teodor Teodorov, Anton Fragnya [bg], Aleksandar Lyudskanov [bg], Ivan Geshov, Stefan Bobchev [bg], Petar Arabashev [bg], Nikifor Nikiforov [bg], Dimitar Yablanski [bg], Dimitar Hristov [bg]

The ruling pro-Entente NP–PLP coalition won a majority, NP's leader Geshov continued his term as PM and PLP's leader Stoyan Danev became Chairman of Parliament. The government's main goal was to conduct the diplomatic negotiations and military preparations for the First Balkan War,[4] which ended in a victory for the Balkan League. However, Geshov's approach during the negotiations for the subsequent Treaty of London conflicted with Tsar Ferdinand's hardline maximalist stance and he resigned on the day the treaty was signed.[5] He became Chairman of Parliament and Danev succeeded him as PM. The outbreak of the Second Balkan War and Bulgaria's military defeats resulted in the new government's resignation.

Ferdinand appointed Vasil Radoslavov as PM, who formed a coalition of the pro-Triple Alliance liberal parties and elections were scheduled for November 1913.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ People's Party - 99, Progressive Liberal Party - 91

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p378
  3. ^ a b Statistique des elections des deputes pour la XV-eme Assemblee nationale ordinaire. 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.
  5. ^ Geshov, Ivan Ev. Memories of years of battles and victories. Sofia, Sineva Publishing House, 2008. ISBN 978-954-9983-74-6, p. 226 – 227.
  6. ^ Kumanov, Milen. Political organizations and movements in Bulgaria and their leaders 1879-1949, Sofia 1991.
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