1911 Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election

Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Bulgaria on 5 June 1911^[1] to elect members of the V Grand National Assembly. The result was a victory for the ruling People's PartyâProgressive Liberal Party alliance, which won 342 of the 410 seats. Voter turnout was 54.0%.^[2]

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â 1908

5 June 1911

1911 (Sept) â

All 426 seats in the Grand National Assembly
214 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

54.01%

	Leader	Seats	+/â
NPâPLP^[a]	Ivan Geshov	339	+333
BZNS	Dimitar Dragiev [bg]	53	+30
LP (Radoslavists)	Vasil Radoslavov	6	+1
BRSDP (united)	Yanko Sakazov	5	+5
Radical Democratic Party	Naycho Tsanov [bg]	4	+4
People's Liberal	Nikola Genadiev [bg]	3	+2
Democratic	Aleksandar Malinov	2	â164
BRSDP	Dimitar Blagoev	1	+1
Independents		1	0
Vacant		12	+12

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Prime Minister before	Prime Minister after
Ivan Geshov Geshov (NPâPLP)	Ivan Geshov Geshov (NPâPLP)

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Results

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Party		Votes^[b]	%	Seats
	People's PartyâProgressive Liberal Party	1,182,886	44.65	339
	Bulgarian Agrarian National Union	507,249	19.15	50
	Liberal PartyâPeople's Liberal Party	216,684	8.18	5
	Democratic Party	131,218	4.95	2
	Liberal Party	70,146	2.65	2
	Liberal PartyâPeople's Liberal PartyâDemocratic Party	69,110	2.61	1
	BRSDP (united)	66,825	2.52	0
	Radical Democratic Party	61,458	2.32	4
	BRSDP	59,384	2.24	1
	People's Liberal Party	44,870	1.69	0
	Young Liberals Party	33,517	1.27	0
	BRSDP (united)-BZNS	33,227	1.25	10
	People's Party	26,704	1.01	6
	People's PartyâProgressive Liberal PartyâLiberal Party	23,049	0.87	6
	Liberal Party-NLP-MLP-Dem	20,942	0.79	0
	Liberal Party-Dem	16,166	0.61	0
	Progressive Liberal Party	14,870	0.56	0
	BZNS-RDP-Dem	12,481	0.47	0
	NLP-MLP	11,800	0.45	0
	NLP-MLP-Dem-PLP breakaways-Independents	10,852	0.41	0
	Liberal Party-MLP-BZNS	7,932	0.30	0
	NLP-Dem	6,642	0.25	0
	Liberal Party-NLP-Dem-Independents	6,153	0.23	0
	NLP-BZNS	5,482	0.21	0
	Liberal Party-NLP-MLP-Dem-People's Party (breakaways)	3,491	0.13	0
	Dem-People's Party (breakaways)	3,193	0.12	0
	NLP Breakaways	393	0.01	0
	Democratic breakaways	133	0.01	0
	Undetermined	2,348	0.09	0
Total		2,649,205	100.00	426

Total votes		556,782	â
Registered voters/turnout		1,030,810	54.01
Source: National Statistical Institute^[3]

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Several MPs were elected in more than one constituency and were required to choose which one to represent when the Assembly convened, resulting in twelve seats being vacated. By-elections were not held.

Aftermath

The ruling pro-Entente NPâPLP coalition led by Ivan Geshov won a majority and approved the constitutional changes prepared by the previous government, notably allowing the government and the monarch to approve secret treaties without Parliamentary oversight. Afterwards the Grand Assembly dissolved itself and Tsar Ferdinand scheduled elections for an Ordinary National Assembly for September.^[4]

1911 Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election

Results

Aftermath

References

Notes

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