1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election

1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election

← 1994 19 April 1997 2001 →
All 240 seats in the National Assembly 121 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	58.87%
Party Leader % Seats +/– ODS Ivan Kostov 52.26 137 +68 KzB Georgi Parvanov 22.07 58 −67 DPS Ahmed Dogan 7.60 19 +4 BEL Aleksandar Tomov 5.50 14 New BBB George Ganchev 4.93 12 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by constituency Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Stefan Sofiyanski SDS Ivan Kostov ODS

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 19 April 1997.^[1] 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),^[2] which won 137 of the 240 seats. Following the election, SDS leader Ivan Kostov became prime minister.^[3]