Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

is divided into 31 multi-member

constituencies 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 ...

for the purposes of elections to the

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Background

Bulgaria is divided into 28 provinces. Most of these correspond exactly to the constituencies, but

Sofia City Province Sofia City Province () is a province (''oblast'') of Bulgaria. Its administrative center is the city of Sofia, the capital of the country. The province borders on Sofia Province and Pernik Province. It consists of only one municipalities of B ...

is divided in 3 and

Plovdiv Province Plovdiv Province (: ''Oblast Plovdiv'', former name okrug, Plovdiv okrug) is a provinces of Bulgaria, province in central southern Bulgaria. It comprises 18 municipalities (общини, ''obshtini'', sing. общинa, ''obshtina'') on a territ ...

is divided in 2. Plovdiv Province is divided between the 16th MMC (consisting of the City of Plovdiv) and the 17th MMC (consisting of the rest of the province). Sofia City Province (not to be confused with

Sofia Province Sofia Province () is a province (''oblast'') of Bulgaria. The province does not include Sofia in its territories, but Sofia remains the seat of its administration. The province borders on the provinces of Pernik, Kyustendil, Blagoevgrad, Paz ...

) is divided between the 23rd (southern Sofia), 24th (central and eastern Sofia), and 25th (western Sofia) MMCs. In addition to their names, constituencies are numbered from 1 to 31 according to their order in the

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. There are a total of 240 seats in the National Assembly, and each constituency elects between 4 (the guaranteed minimum number of seats in a constituency) and 16 members of parliament.

List of constituencies

1st MMC – Blagoevgrad 1st Multi-member Constituency - Blagoevgrad is a constituency whose borders are the same as Blagoevgrad Province. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, 1st MMC – Blagoevgrad elected 10 members in the Bulgarian National Asse ...

* 2nd MMC – Burgas *

3rd MMC – Varna 3rd Multi-member Constituency - Varna is a constituency whose borders are the same as Varna Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election 3rd MMC – Varna elected 13 members in the Bulgarian National Assembly, 1 ...

* 4th MMC – Veliko Tarnovo * 5th MMC – Vidin *

6th MMC – Vratsa 6th Multi-member Constituency – Vratsa is a constituency whose borders are the same as Vratsa Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election 6th Multi-member Constituency – Vratsa elected 7 members to the Natio ...

* 7th MMC – Gabrovo *

8th MMC – Dobrich 8th Multi-member Constituency – Dobrich is a constituency whose borders are the same as Dobrich Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, 8th Multi-member Constituency – Dobrich elected 7 members to the B ...

* 9th MMC – Kardzhali *

10th MMC – Kyustendil 10th Multi-member Constituency – Kyustendil is a constituency whose borders are the same as Kyustendil Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 10th Multi-member Constituency – Kyustendil elected 5 me ...

* 11th MMC – Lovech * 12th MMC – Montana * 13th MMC – Pazardzhik * 14th MMC – Pernik *

15th MMC – Pleven 15th Multi-member Constituency – Pleven is a constituency whose borders are the same as Pleven Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 15th Multi-member Constituency – Pleven elected 10 members to th ...

16th MMC – Plovdiv-city The 16th Multi-member Constituency – Plovdiv-City is a constituency of the National Assembly of Bulgaria whose borders are the same as Plovdiv, Plovdiv Municipality in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 16th M ...

17th MMC – Plovdiv-province The 17th Multi-member Constituency – Plovdiv-Province is a constituency whose borders are the same as Plovdiv Province in Bulgaria, excluding the territory of Plovdiv Municipality. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 1 ...

18th MMC – Razgrad The 18th Multi-member Constituency – Razgrad is a constituency whose borders are the same as Razgrad Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 18th Multi-member Constituency – Razgrad elected 5 membe ...

* 19th MMC – Ruse *

20th MMC – Silistra The 20th Multi-member Constituency – Silistra is a constituency whose borders are the same as Silistra Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 20th Multi-member Constituency – Silistra elected 5 mem ...

* 21st MMC – Sliven *

22nd MMC – Smolyan 22nd Multi-member Constituency – Smolyan is a constituency whose borders are the same as Smolyan Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 22nd Multi-member Constituency – Smolyan elected 4 members to ...

* 23rd MMC – Sofia-city 23 * 24th MMC – Sofia-city 24 * 25th MMC – Sofia-city 25 * 26th MMC – Sofia-province *

27th MMC – Stara Zagora The 27th Multi-member Constituency – Stara Zagora is a constituency whose borders are the same as Stara Zagora Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 27th Multi-member Constituency – Stara Zagora el ...

* 28th MMC – Targovishte *

29th MMC – Haskovo The 29th Multi-member Constituency – Haskovo is a constituency whose borders are the same as Haskovo Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 29th Multi-member Constituency – Haskovo elected 8 members ...

30th MMC – Shumen The 30th Multi-member Constituency – Shumen is a constituency whose borders are the same as Shumen Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 30th Multi-member Constituency – Shumen elected 6 members to ...

31st MMC – Yambol The 31st Multi-member Constituency – Yambol is a constituency whose borders are the same as Yambol Province in Bulgaria. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 31st Multi-member Constituency – Yambol elected 5 members to ...

Seat allocation by constituency

Below is the numbers of MPs allocated to each constituency by election year. The number of MPs in 2009 only adds up to 209 because of the electoral system experiment of that year (see further below).

2009 experiment

As an experiment, the 2009 election was conducted with a different electoral system than earlier elections. 31 out of the 240 MPs were elected 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- ...

, while the remaining 209 were elected through

party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a system of proportional representation based on preregistered Political party, political parties, with each party being Apportionment (politics), allocated a certain number of seats Apportionm ...

using the

largest remainder method Party-list proportional representation Apportionment methods The quota or divide-and-rank methods make up a category of apportionment rules, i.e. algorithms for allocating seats in a legislative body among multiple groups (e.g. parties or f ...

. This mixed electoral system was rejected for use in further elections, and the old system was returned in the next election in 2013. The following 31 members of the National Assembly were elected through first-past-the-post in 2009:

Sources

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Constituencies 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 ...

Background

List of constituencies

Seat allocation by constituency

2009 experiment

See also

Sources