Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2017

Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2017

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Party Leader Current seats GERB Boyko Borisov 84 KB Korneliya Ninova 39 DPS Mustafa Karadayi 38 RB Petar Moskov 23 PF Valeri Simeonov & Krasimir Karakachanov 19 BBT Nikolay Barekov 15 ATAKA Volen Siderov 11 ABV Konstantin Prodanov 11 This lists parties that currently hold seats.

Incumbent Acting Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov NDSV

Parliamentary elections were due to be held in Bulgaria in 2018 at the end of the four-year term of the National Assembly. However, early elections will be held on 26 March 2017 following the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the failure of Bulgarian parties to form a government. Borisov resigned following the defeat of Tsetska Tsacheva, the candidate of his GERB party, in the November 2016 presidential elections. The official election campaign began on February 24.

During the 2016 presidential election campaign, Borisov promised to resign if his party's candidate, then-Chairperson of the National Assembly Tsetska Tsacheva lost the election.

On 6 November 2016 Tsacheva finished second in the first round to BSP-backed Major general Rumen Radev, receiving only 22% of the popular vote compared to Radev's 25%. Following the result, Borisov reiterated his promise to resign if his party's candidate lost the runoff election a week later. On November 13, 2016, she finished a distant second with only 36% of the popular vote compared to the Radev's 59%.

Borisov, staying true to his campaign promise, subsequently resigned on 14 November. Two days later, the National Assembly voted 218–0 to accept it.

The 240 members of the National Assembly are elected by closed list proportional representation from 31 multi-member constituencies ranging in size from 4 to 16 seats. The electoral threshold is 4%.

The deadline for political parties to register for the election was 8 February 2017. The list of registered parties is below.

Percentages do not account for undecided voters.