Bulgarian parliamentary elections — latest vote: 19 April 2026
Turnout: 50.70% (3,360,330 of 6,627,747 registered voters).
Biggest gain: ПрБ (+44.59 pp). Biggest loss: ГЕРБ-СДС (-13.00 pp).
Paper / machine vote: 52.39% / 47.61%.
Parties and results
| Party | Votes | % | Δ | Seats |
|---|
| ПрБ | 1,444,920 | 44.59% | +44.59 pp | 131 |
| ГЕРБ-СДС | 433,755 | 13.39% | -13.00 pp | 39 |
| ПП-ДБ | 408,846 | 12.62% | -1.60 pp | 37 |
| ДПС | 230,693 | 7.12% | -11.88 pp | 21 |
| Възраждане | 137,940 | 4.26% | -9.11 pp | 12 |
| МЕЧ | 104,506 | 3.23% | -1.37 pp | |
| Величие | 100,572 | 3.10% | -0.90 pp | |
| БСП-ОЛ | 97,753 | 3.02% | -4.56 pp | |
| Сияние | 93,559 | 2.89% | +2.89 pp | |
| АПС | 50,759 | 1.57% | -5.92 pp | |
| ИТН | 23,861 | 0.74% | -6.05 pp | |
| АКБ | 18,999 | 0.59% | | |
| СБ | 18,640 | 0.58% | -0.49 pp | |
| БМ | 17,263 | 0.53% | | |
| ПД | 10,032 | 0.31% | | |
| Нация | 9,804 | 0.30% | | |
| ДНК | 9,761 | 0.30% | | |
| НБ | 6,221 | 0.19% | | |
| ГН | 4,665 | 0.14% | | |
| НПИ-СИ | 4,392 | 0.14% | | |
| МБ | 4,358 | 0.13% | | |
| ПнЗ | 3,027 | 0.09% | | |
| ИК-Батков | 2,093 | 0.06% | | |
| Съпротива | 1,897 | 0.06% | | |
| 3М | 1,840 | 0.06% | | |
Section-level anomalies detected: 3,331. See problem sections.
Voting abroad
Germany (37,593 voters) · Turkey (30,229 voters) · United Kingdom (27,635 voters) · Spain (19,558 voters) · USA (9,888 voters) · Netherlands (9,817 voters) · Austria (6,993 voters) · Belgium (6,580 voters) · Italy (6,524 voters) · France (5,229 voters)
Largest cities
Sofia (638,489 voters) · Plovdiv (158,118 voters) · Varna (153,254 voters) · Burgas (93,514 voters) · Stara Zagora (62,409 voters) · Ruse (58,366 voters) · Pleven (47,230 voters) · Haskovo (34,605 voters) · Dobrich (34,233 voters) · Pernik (34,220 voters)
Recent analysis
- A budget scorecard for Bulgaria — five risks, five opportunities — A structured read of Bulgaria's state budget, pinned to specific tiles on the /budget dashboard. Analysis of the new proposal to raise the maximum insurable income to €2,300, plan-versus-actual ministry deviations, the social-functions concentration of spending, and the post-euro fiscal headroom.
- A governance scorecard for Bulgaria — seven risks, six opportunities — A structured read of Bulgarian governance, pinned to specific tiles on the /governance dashboard. What the data says about cabinet stability, institutional trust, WGI scores, debt and budget — and where on the dashboard to check live values.
- The state's money: the new public-procurement module and MPs' business connections — What the new public-procurement tracking tool is, where the data comes from (over 244,000 contracts), and how the system filters out name matches to surface the real connections.
- Election risk screening — new tools for the 19.04.2026 vote — Composite index (47/100, High risk) from five process-integrity signals, plus four context signals (Benford, neighborhood swing, electoral volatility, polling error). Per-section risk screening (10 Critical out of 12,705) and per-party Benford 2BL. Aligned with the international electoral-integrity frameworks.
- Following the money trail — a tour of the new MP business connections feature — What the new MP business-connections graph is, where the data comes from, how to read it, and a worked example of a cross-party ownership path between two sitting MPs.
- Election Integrity Analysis — 19.04.2026 vs prior cycles — Comparative analysis across 12 elections (2009-2026): flash-memory anomalies, turnout, protest vote, risk neighborhoods and polling.