Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2001

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17 June 2001

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Turnout

67.0%

Party	Leader	%	Seats	±
NDSV	Simeon Sakskoburggotski	42.7	120	New
ODS	Ivan Kostov	18.2	51	-86
KB	Georgi Parvanov	17.1	48	-10
DPS	Ahmed Dogan	7.4	21	+2

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

Prime Minister before		Prime Minister after
	Ivan Kostov ODS	Simeon Sakskoburggotski NDSV

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 17 June 2001. The result was a victory for the National Movement – Simeon II, which won 120 of the 240 seats. Voter turnout was 67.0%. Following the election, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the country's last Tsar, became Prime Minister.

The elections came four years after the last parliamentary elections in 1997, marking the first occasion since the fall of Communism that a full term had been completed. A total of 65 parties registered for the elections, together with eleven independents.

National Movement – Simeon II was originally prevented from registering by Sofia City Court as it failed to meet the Central Election Committee's requirements. However, after forming an alliance with the Bulgarian Women's Party and the Movement for National Revival, the party was allowed to register.

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