2022 Bulgarian parliamentary election

2022 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Bulgaria
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All 240 seats in the National Assembly
121 seats needed for a majority
Turnout37.98% (Decrease 0.45pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
GERBSDS Boyko Borisov 24.48 67 +8
PP K. Petkov & A. Vasilev 19.52 53 −14
DPS Mustafa Karadayi 13.29 36 +2
Revival Kostadin Kostadinov 9.83 27 +14
BSPzB Korneliya Ninova 8.98 25 −1
DB Hristo Ivanov 7.19 20 +4
BV Stefan Yanev 4.47 12 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Distribution of seats by electoral district and largest party by district
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Galab Donev (caretaker)
Independent
Galab Donev (caretaker)
Independent

Early parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 2 October 2022 to elect members of the 48th National Assembly. The snap election was called after the fall of the Petkov Government, a four-party coalition, in June 2022. This was the fourth parliamentary election since 2021, an unprecedented situation in Bulgarian history, the previous elections being the April, July, and November 2021 elections.

As in the previous snap elections, no party secured a majority. The GERB–SDS alliance emerged as the largest bloc with 67 seats and was assigned the task of forming a government by President Rumen Radev, but their efforts failed. Radev then granted the We Continue the Change party and later the BSP for Bulgaria coalition a mandate to form a government, but both were unsuccessful. As a result, Radev scheduled another parliamentary election, the fifth in two years, to take place on 2 April 2023.

Turnout was at 39%, the lowest since 1990.[1]

  1. ^ Spirova, Maria (4 July 2023). "Bulgaria: Political Developments and Data in 2022: Yet Another Year of Instability". European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook. doi:10.1111/2047-8852.12415. hdl:1887/3142366. ISSN 2047-8844. S2CID 214363448.