Bulgarian parliamentary election, 1997

Bulgarian parliamentary election, 1997

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Turnout	62.9%
Party Leader % Seats ± ODS Ivan Kostov 52.3 137 +68 BSP Georgi Parvanov 22.1 58 -67 DPS Ahmed Dogan 7.6 19 +4 BEL Aleksandar Tomov 5.5 14 New BBB George Ganchev 4.9 12 -1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Stefan Sofiyanski Independent Ivan Kostov ODS

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. Voter turnout was 62.9%. Following the election, SDS leader Ivan Kostov became Prime Minister.

¹ The Union for National Salvation was an alliance between the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the Green Party of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union "Nikola Petkov", the Union of Democratic Forces-Centre, New Choice and the Federation "Kingdom of Bulgaria".