1931 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 21 June 1931. The result was a victory for the Popular Bloc, an alliance of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Dragiev), the Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party (Petrov) and the Radical Democratic Party, which won 151 of the 273 seats. Voter turnout was 85.2%.

This would be the last relatively free election held in Bulgaria until 1990.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Popular Bloc	626,553	48.4	151	+105
Democratic Alliance-National Liberal Party	403,686	31.2	78	−96
Bulgarian Communist Party	168,281	13.0	31	New
United Labour Social Democratic Party	27,323	2.1	0	New
Socialist Federation	26,501	2.0	0	New
BZNS (Tomov)-Craftsmen-Radical Democratic Party	20,805	1.6	0	−6
United People's Progressive Party	8,152	0.6	0	0
Independents	11,980	0.9	0	0
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization			8	+1
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)			5	−5
Invalid/blank votes	22,228	–	–	–
Total	1,315,509	100	273	+12
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p380

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