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2nd Multi-member Constituency - Burgas is a
2nd Multi-member Constituency - Burgas is a constituency
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
whose borders are the same as Burgas Province
Burgas (, formerly the Burgas okrug) is a province in southeastern Bulgaria on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The province is named after its administrative and industrial centre, the city of Burgas, the fourth biggest town in the countr ...
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Background
In the2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 5 July 2009. With 40% of the vote, the decisive winner of the elections was the established in 2006 personalistic party of Boyko Borisov, GERB. The Socialist Party, in power before the election ...
2nd MMC – Burgas elected 12 members in the Bulgarian National Assembly
The National Assembly () is the Unicameralism, unicameral parliament and Legislature, legislative body of the Republic of Bulgaria. The first National Assembly was established in 1879 with the Tarnovo Constitution.
During the People's Republic ...
, 11 of which were through proportionality vote and 1 was through first-past-the-post voting
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first- ...
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Members in the Bulgarian National Assembly
* Throughfirst-past-the-post voting
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first- ...
* Through proportionality vote
Elections
2009 election * proportionality vote *first-past-the-post voting
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first- ...
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See also
*2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 5 July 2009. With 40% of the vote, the decisive winner of the elections was the established in 2006 personalistic party of Boyko Borisov, GERB. The Socialist Party, in power before the election ...
*Politics of Bulgaria
The politics of Bulgaria take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the prime minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.Bulgaria Library of Congress Country Study, ''Governmen ...
*List of Bulgarian Constituencies
Bulgaria is divided into 31 multi-member constituencies for the purposes of elections to the National Assembly.
Background
Bulgaria is divided into 28 provinces. Most of these correspond exactly to the constituencies, but Sofia City Province i ...
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