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1945 Bulgarian parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	People's Republic of Bulgaria
flag_year	1945
previous_election	[1939](1939-bulgarian-parliamentary-election)
next_election	[1946](1946-bulgarian-parliamentary-election)
election_date	18 November 1945
seats_for_election	All 276 seats in the National Assembly
turnout	84.80%
nopercentage	yes
party1	Bulgarian Communist Party
leader1	Georgi Dimitrov
seats1	94
last_election1	10
party2	Bulgarian Agrarian National Union
leader2	Nikola Petkov
seats2	94
last_election2	5
party3	Zveno
leader3	Kimon Georgiev
seats3	45
party4	Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Broad Socialists)
leader4
seats4	31
party5	Radical Democratic Party (Bulgaria)
seats5	11
party6	Opposition
color6	#535B58
party6_link	no
seats6	1
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Kimon Georgiev
before_party	Bulgarian Fatherland Front
after_election	Kimon Georgiev
after_party	Bulgarian Fatherland Front

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 18 November 1945, the country's first to feature universal suffrage for women. The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the Bulgarian Communist Party both won 94 seats. Voter turnout was 84.8%.

Results

For the first time, women could stand as candidates, with Stoyanka Ancheva, Ekaterina Avramova, Tsola Dragoycheva, Stanka Ivanova, , Elena Ketskarova, Mara Kinkel, Venera Klincharova, Vyara Makedonska, Stefana Markova, Ekaterina Nikolova, Rada Todorova, Mata Tyurkedzhieva, Maria Toteva and Vera Zlatareva becoming the first women in the National Assembly.

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', pp368–369 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p86
Nohlen & Stöver, p386
Nohlen & Stöver, p370
Mart Martin (2000) ''The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics'', pp53–54

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