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1913 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	Bulgaria
flag_year	1908
previous_election	September 1911
next_election	1914
seats_for_election	All 204 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	103
turnout	55.01%
election_date	24 November 1913
party1	LP–NLP–MLP	color1=#38283d	percentage1=38.69	leader1=Vasil Radoslavov	seats1=94	last_election1=14
party2	BZNS	percentage2=21.18	leader2=
seats2=48	last_election2=4
party3	BRSDP (united)	percentage3=10.27	seats3=19	last_election3=0	leader3=Yanko Sakazov
party4	BRSDP	percentage4=10.10	seats4=18	last_election4=0	leader4=Dimitar Blagoev
party5	Democratic	percentage5=8.00	seats5=14	last_election5=4	leader5=Aleksandar Malinov
party6	People's Party	percentage6=4.53	seats6=5	last_election6=100	leader6=Ivan Geshov
party7	Radical Democratic	percentage7=4.47	seats7=5	last_election7=0	leader7=
party8	Progressive Liberal	percentage8=2.21	seats8=1	last_election8=91	leader8=Stoyan Danev
map	Bulgaria_1913_legislative_election.svg
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Vasil Radoslavov
before_party	Radoslavov II (LP–NLP–MLP)
after_election	Vasil Radoslavov
after_party	Radoslavov III (LP–NLP–MLP)

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 24 November 1913. to elect members of the XVI Ordinary National Assembly. The result was a victory for the ruling Liberal Concentration, an alliance of the Liberal Party (Radoslavists), the People's Liberal Party and the Young Liberals Party, won a plurality of votes and seats. Voter turnout was 55%. For the first time in Bulgarian history the election was held under proportional representation in all twelve of Bulgaria's pre-Balkan wars regions. Citizens in the newly annexed territories could not vote.

Results

Aftermath

The ruling Liberal Concentration failed to win a majority of seats. Foreign minister and NLP leader resigned in December 1913 in protest of the government's strongly pro-Triple Alliance foreign policy and later formed his own party. However most of the NLP, under the new leadership of , remained in government. Despite protests from many opposition MPs, early elections were called shortly afterwards and held in February 1914.

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p378
Svetoslav Zhivkov. (2022). "The proportional representation. Elections and electoral legislature in Bulgaria on the eve of the First World War".
Kumanov, Milen. Political organizations and movements in Bulgaria and their leaders 1879-1949, Sofia 1991.

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