2022 Bulgarian parliamentary election

2022 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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All 240 seats in the National Assembly 121 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	39.30% (0.87pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– GERB–SDS Boyko Borisov 24.48 67 +8 PP K. Petkov & A. Vasilev 19.52 53 −14 DPS Mustafa Karadayi 13.29 36 +2 Revival Kostadin Kostadinov 9.83 27 +14 BSPzB Korneliya Ninova 8.98 25 −1 DB Hristo Ivanov 7.19 20 +4 BV Stefan Yanev 4.47 12 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Distribution of seats by electoral district and largest party by district Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Galab Donev (caretaker) Independent Galab Donev (caretaker) Independent

Politics of Bulgaria
Constitution 1879 1947 1971 1991
Presidency President (list) Rumen Radev Vice President Iliana Iotova
Executive Legislative Government Prime Minister (list) Nikolay Denkov National Assembly Speaker: Rosen Zhelyazkov
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Major political parties PP GERB DPS Bulgarian Socialist Party Democratic Bulgaria Revival Bulgarian Rise
Recent elections Presidential: 2011 2016 2021 Parliamentary: 2022 2023 2024 European: 2014 2019 2024
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Early parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 2 October 2022 to elect members of the 48th National Assembly. The snap election was called after the fall of the Petkov Government, a four-party coalition, in June 2022. This was the fourth parliamentary election since 2021, an unprecedented situation in Bulgarian history, the previous elections being the April, July, and November 2021 elections.

As in the previous snap elections, no party secured a majority. The GERB–SDS alliance emerged as the largest bloc with 67 seats and was assigned the task of forming a government by President Rumen Radev, but their efforts failed. Radev then granted the We Continue the Change party and later the BSP for Bulgaria coalition a mandate to form a government, but both were unsuccessful. As a result, Radev scheduled another parliamentary election, the fifth in two years, to take place on 2 April 2023.

Turnout was at 39%, the lowest since 1990.^[1]