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1920 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	Bulgaria
election_date	28 March 1920
previous_election	1919
next_election	April 1923
seats_for_election	All 229 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	115
turnout	77.26%
map	Bulgaria April 1920 legislative election.svg
party1	Bulgarian Agrarian National Union	leader1 = Aleksandar Stamboliyski	percentage1 = 38.56	seats1 = 110	last_election1 = 77
party2	Bulgarian Communist Party	leader2 = Dimitar Blagoev	percentage2 = 20.39	seats2 = 50	last_election2 = 47
party3	Democratic Party (Bulgaria)	leader3 = Aleksandar Malinov	percentage3 = 10.07	seats3 = 24	last_election3 = 28
party4	People's Party (Bulgaria)	leader4 = Ivan Evstratiev Geshov	percentage4 = 6.81	seats4 = 14	last_election4 = 19
party5	BRSDP (united)	leader5 = Yanko Sakazov	percentage5 = 6.12	seats5 = 9	last_election5 = 38
party6	PLP	leader6 = Stoyan Danev	percentage6 = 5.13	seats6 = 8	last_election6 = 8
party7	Radical Democratic Party (Bulgaria)	leader7 =	percentage7 = 4.63	seats7 = 8	last_election7 = 8
party8	PLP–Genadiev	leader8 =	percentage8 = 2.96	seats8 = 2	last_election8 = 1
party9	PLP–Petkov	leader9 =	percentage9 = 0.86	seats9 = 4	last_election9 = 2
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Aleksandar Stamboliyski
before_party	Stamboliyski I (BZNS)
after_election	Aleksandar Stamboliyski
after_party	Stamboliyski I (BZNS)

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 28 March 1920 to elect members of the XIX Ordinary National Assembly. It was compulsory to vote. The result was a victory for the ruling Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BZNS), which won 110 of the 229 seats. Voter turnout was 77%.

Results

Aftermath

The BZNS government annulled the election of 13 deputies – nine of them Communists – which gave them a majority in parliament. In September 1922 Interior minister Rayko Daskalov proposed an electoral reform that would make the results proportional in each administrative municipality, as opposed to province, which would result in a larger majority for the more consolidated BZNS. The government resigned and snap elections were called shortly after the law was approved in late February 1923.

Notes

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Richard J. Crampton (2007) ''Bulgaria'', Oxford/New York (NY) , p224
Nohlen & Stöver, p379
(1928). "Statistique des elections des deputes pour la XVII-eme, XVIII-eme et XIX-eme Assemblees nationales ordinaires.". [[National Statistical Institute (Bulgaria).
The government oversaw significant agrarian reforms - the amount of state-owned land was increased, household landownership was limited to 300 [[Hectare#Decar. decars]], land was distributed to refugees from Thrace and Macedonia, while salaries for members of the intelligentsia (teachers, doctors, lawyers and the military) were decreased. The Labor Service Act required 12 months of mandatory community service for male citizens over 20 and 6 months for female citizens over 16. Bulgaria became the first former member of the Central Powers to be accepted in th the [[League of Nations]] in 1920. Due to the government's friendly relationship with [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia]] (later resulting in the signing of the [[Treaty of Niš (1923). Treaty of Niš]]), defense minister [[:bg:Александър Димитров. Alexander Dimitrov]] was murdered by the [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. VMRO]] in 1921. Church institutions were placed under state control in 1922. The leaders of the opposition [[Constitutional Bloc (Bulgaria). Constitutional Bloc]] were arrested and given large prison sentences.Tsurakov, Angel. Encyclopedia of Governments, National Assemblies, and Assassinations in Bulgaria. Sofia, Trud Publishing House, 2008. ISBN 954-528-790-X, p. 138-146.
(30 September 2010). "Законната кражба на гласовете от 1923 г.".

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