Central Election Commission announced final results of October 27 early parliamentary elections

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission on October 30 announced the final results from the early parliamentary elections held on October 27, 2024.

The seat distribution in Bulgaria’s 51st Parliament is as follows:

• GERB - UDF - 69 MPs
• Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria - 37 MPs
• Vazrazhdane - 35 MPs
• Movement for Rights and Freedoms - New Beginning - 30 MPs
• Bulgarian Socialist Party - United Left - 20 MPs
• Alliance for Rights and Freedoms - 19 MPs
• There Is Such a People - 18 MPs
• Morality, Unity, Honour (MECh) - 12 MPs.

14 applications were received by the CEC from candidates who were elected but gave up their seats as MPs. Among them are the honorary chairman of the MRF and leader of the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms lists - Ahmed Dogan, and the leader of TISP, Slavi Trifonov; as well as the current mayor of Stara Zagora, Zhivko Todorov; the mayor of Burgas, Dimitar Nikolov; the mayor of Smolyan, Nikolay Melemov; and Erol Mümün - the mayor of Kardazhli.

Half of the submitted applications for giving up a parliamentary seat are candidates from "MRF-New Beginning". Those elected from two multi-member constituencies must choose by 31 October, which one they want to represent.