Bulgaria 2023 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : GERB won 69 of 240 seats with 25.4% of the vote; 40.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.3 points on 2022.
- Bulgaria
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GERB | 69 | +2 | 25.4 | +0.1 | 669,924 |
| We Continue the Changewith Volt Bulgaria, Middle European Class, Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria / Democratic Bulgaria and Yes, Bulgaria! | 64 | +11 | 23.5 | +3.3 | 621,069 |
| Revival | 37 | +10 | 13.6 | +3.4 | 358,174 |
| Movement for Rights and Freedoms | 36 | 0 | 13.2 | −0.6 | 347,700 |
| Bulgarian Socialist Partywith Political Club "Ecoglasnost" | 23 | −2 | 8.6 | −0.7 | 225,914 |
| There Is Such a People | 11 | +11 | 3.9 | +0.1 | 103,971 |
| Bulgarian Rise | 0 | −12 | 2.9 | −1.7 | 77,420 |
| Stand Up.BG! We are coming!with Alternative for Bulgarian Revival, Movement 21 and Agrarian Union "Aleksandar Stamboliyski" | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | +1.1 | 56,481 |
± is the change against the Bulgaria 2022 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- GERB 669,924
- We Continue the Change 621,069
- Revival 358,174
- Movement for Rights and Freedoms 347,700
- Bulgarian Socialist Party 225,914
- There Is Such a People 103,971
- Bulgarian Rise 77,420
- Stand Up.BG! We are coming! 56,481
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
40.7% of the 6,594,593 registered voters cast a ballot (2,683,606 ballots), up 1.3 points on 2022. 2,638,024 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 2021 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- GERB25.4% of votes28.8% of seats
- We Continue the Change23.5% of votes26.7% of seats
- Revival13.6% of votes15.4% of seats
- Movement for Rights and Freedoms13.2% of votes15.0% of seats
- Bulgarian Socialist Party8.6% of votes9.6% of seats
- There Is Such a People3.9% of votes4.6% of seats
- Bulgarian Rise2.9% of votes0.0% of seats
- Stand Up.BG! We are coming!2.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.0 by votes and 4.7 by seats; GERB led We Continue the Change by 1.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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