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 BULGARIA
 
  1990 1991 1994 1997 2001 2005
  % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats
BSP 47,2 211 33,1 106 43,5 125 22,0 58 17,1 48 31,0 82
NDSV - - - - - - - - 42,7 120 19,9 53
DPS 6,0 23 7,6 24 5,4 15 7,6 19 7,5 21 12,8 34
ATAKA - - - - - - - - - - 8,1 21
SDS 36,2 144 34,4 110 24,2 69 52,3 137 18,2 51 7,7 20
DSB - - - - - - - - - - 6,4 17
BNS - - - - - - - - - - 5,2 13
KPB - - 0,7 - 1,5 - 1,3 - BSP BSP
PBSD SDS 3,2 - 3,8 - SDS BSP BSP
BZNS-AS - - - - BSP BSP BSP BSP
BZNS 8,0 16 3,9 - NS SDS BE SDS
BZNS-NS - - - - - - SDS SDS BNS
DP SDS SDS NS SDS SDS SDS
SSD - - - - - - - - - - BNS
VMRO-BND - - - - - - - - 3,6 - BNS
BE - - - - - - 5,5 14 1,0 - - -
BBB - - 1,3 - 4,7 13 4,9 12 - - - -
NS - - - - 6,5 18 - - - - - -
RDP SDS SDS SDS - - - - - -
BZNS-NP SDS 3,4 - - - - - - - - -
SDP 0,7 1 - - - - - - - - - -
OPT 0,6 1 - - - - - - - - - -
OF - 2 - - - - - - - - - -
Ind. - 2 - - - - - - - - - -
Others 1,3 - 12,4 - 10,4 - 6,4 - 9,9 - 8,9 -
Turnout 90,8 400 83,9 240 75,2 240 58,9 240 66,8 240 55,8 240

BSP: Bulgarian Socialist Party; NDSV: National Movement for Stability and Progress; DPS: Movement for Rights and Freedoms (1997: Alliance of National Salvation, ONS); ATAKA: Coalition Attack; SDS: Union of Democratic Forces; DSB: Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria; BNS: Bulgarian People's Union; KPB: Communist Party of Bulgaria; PBSD: Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats (1990: Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, BSDP; 1991: SDS-Center, SDS-Tz; 1994: Democratic Alternative for the Republic, DAR; 1997-2001: BSDP); BZNS-AS: Bulgarian National People's Union - Aleksandar Stamboliyski; BZNS: Bulgarian National People's Union; BZNS-NS: Bulgarian National People's Union - People's Union; DP: Democratic Party; SSD: Union of Free Democrats; VMRO-BND: Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation - Bulgarian National Movement (2001: George Day-VMRO); BE: Bulgarian Euro-Left; BBB: Bulgarian Business Bloc; NS: People's Union; RDP: Radical Democratic Party; BZNS-NP: Bulgarian National People's Union - Nikola Petkov; SDP: Social Democratic Party; OPT: Fatherland Party of Labour; OF: Fatherland Front. Note: BSP (since 1994) and SDS (since 1997) contested the elections within broad alliances under several electoral labels. Sources: Election Database Eastern Europe (http://www.essex.ac.uk/ elections); W. Ismayr, Die politischen Systeme Osteuropas; own completions. © 2005 Wolfram Nordsieck.