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1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	Bulgaria
previous_election	1994
next_election	2001
election_date	19 April 1997
seats_for_election	All 240 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	121
turnout	58.87%
party1	United Democratic Forces	leader1 = Ivan Kostov	percentage1 = 52.26	last_election1 = 69	seats1 = 137
party2	Coalition for Bulgaria	leader2 = Georgi Parvanov	percentage2 = 22.07	last_election2 = 125	seats2 = 58
party3	Movement for Rights and Freedoms	leader3 = Ahmed Dogan	percentage3 = 7.60	last_election3 = 15	seats3 = 19
party4	Bulgarian Euro-Left	leader4 = Aleksandar Tomov	percentage4 = 5.50	last_election4 = new	seats4 = 14
party5	Bulgarian Business Bloc	leader5 = George Ganchev	percentage5 = 4.93	last_election5 = 13	seats5 = 12
map	1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election.png
map_caption	Results by constituency
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Stefan Sofiyanski
before_party	SDS
(Sofiyanski Government)
after_election	Ivan Kostov
after_party	ODS
(Kostov Government)

(Sofiyanski Government) (Kostov Government)

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 19 April 1997. The result was a victory for the United Democratic Forces (an alliance of the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), the Democratic Party, the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union-Nikola Petkov and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party), which won 137 of the 240 seats. Following the election, SDS leader Ivan Kostov became prime minister.

Results

Aftermath

Following the elections, Ivan Kostov formed the Kostov Government.

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 369 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p372
[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2045_97.htm Bulgaria: Elections held in 1997] Inter-Parliamentary Union

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