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1939 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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Field	Value
map	Bulgaria 1939 legislative election.svg
election_name	1939 Bulgarian parliamentary election
country	Bulgaria
flag_year	1878
previous_election	[1938](1938-bulgarian-parliamentary-election)
next_election	[1945](1945-bulgarian-parliamentary-election)
election_date	–
seats_for_election	All 160 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	81
turnout	67.2%
first_election	yes
party1	Government
party1_link	no
leader1	Boris III
percentage1	57.74
seats1	140
party2	BKP
leader2	Vasil Kolarov
percentage2	8.04
seats2	10
party3	BZNS-Midday
leader3
percentage3	7.09
seats3	5
party4	NSD-Tsankov
leader4	Aleksandar Tsankov
percentage4	3.25
seats4	2
color4	#964B00
party5	BZNS-Vrabcha 1
leader5
percentage5	5.94
seats5	1
party6	Democratic Party
leader6	Nikola Mushanov
percentage6	1.83
seats6	1
party7	Zveno/NP
leader7	Kimon Georgiev
percentage7	1.78
seats7	1
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Georgi Kyoseivanov
before_party	Kyoseivanov IV (Ind.)
after_election	Bogdan Filov
after_party	Filov I (Ind.)

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria to elect members of the XXV Ordinary National Assembly on 24 December 1939, although voting continued in some areas into January 1940. The elections were officially held on a non-partisan basis with the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and Bulgarian Communist Party banned, and in a process tightly controlled by Tsar Boris III, by then the real power in the country. However, candidates representing parties did contest the elections. Pro-government candidates won a majority of seats. Voter turnout was 67.2%.

Results

Aftermath

Bogdan Filov was appointed as Prime Minister after the election. The government signed the anti-Jewish Law for Protection of the Nation, the and the pro-fascist Brannik youth organization were formed. In 1940 the Treaty of Craiova was signed, returning control of Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The country joined the Tripartite Pact and World War II on 1 March 1941, with a 140 to 20 vote in the Assembly. Boris III died on 28 August 1943 and a regency for his son Simeon II was established. Filov became a regent and was succeeded as PM by Dobri Bozhilov and later by Ivan Bagryanov. As soviet troops were about to enter the country, the regency allowed the formation of a government of the pro-Allied democratic opposition under Konstantin Muraviev, however it was overthrown by the Fatherland Front seven days later in the 9 September coup.

127 of the 160 MPs in the XXV National Assembly were tried in the People's Court, (111 were present, 7 tried in absentia and 9 had died), with 67 sentenced to death, in addition to the three regents (Filov, Prince Kiril and Nikola Mihov) and the Prime Ministers Bozhilov and Bagryanov, amongst others.

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References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', pp368–369 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p354
[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/bgtoc.html Bulgaria: a country study]. [[Library of Congress]] Federal Research Division, December 1989.
Nohlen & Stöver, p381
Nohlen & Stöver, p386
Nohlen & Stöver, p370
Kandilarov, Evgeniy. Research on the history of socialism in Bulgaria 1891-1944, page 389.
Dimitrov. Bourgeois opposition, 1939-1944, Sofia 1997, pages 51, 55
Tsurakov, Angel. Encyclopedia of Governments, National Assemblies, and Assassinations in Bulgaria. Sofia, Trud Publishing House, 2008. ISBN 954-528-790-X, p. 205-225.
Polya Meshkova, Dino Sharlanov. (1994). "Bulgarian guillotine. The secret mechanisms of the Poeple's court".

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