site.btaUPDATED Progressive Bulgaria Is Clear Winner in Apr. 19 Vote, Four or Five Parties and Coalitions in Next Parliament According to Parallel Count

Four or five parties and coalitions have cleared the 4% barrier for entry in the legislature. The parallel count results show that Rumen Radev's Progressive Bulgaria coalition is the clear winner in Bulgaria's snap parliamentary elections on Sunday, with around 45% of the votes, according to polling agencies.

This result will likely give him a majority of over 120 seats in the 240-member Parliament.

Next come GERB-UDF and Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), which are tied for the second place, Movement for Rights and Freedoms, and maybe Vazrazhdane, which fails to clear 4% barrier according to some parallel count results.

BSP - United Left remains outside the National Assembly.

The results from overseas voting are yet to come and may cause further shifts.

According to 98% parallel count by Alpha Research:

Progressive Bulgaria 44.2% and 129 seats

GERB-UDF 13.4% and 39 seats

Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria 12.6% and 37 seats

Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) 7.8% and 23 seats

Vazrazhdane 4.0% and 12 seats

According to 100% parallel count by Gallup International Balkan:

Progressive Bulgaria 44.3%

GERB-UDF 13.7% 

Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria 11.6%

Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) 7.7%

Vazrazhdane 4.9%

According to 100% parallel count by Myara:

Progressive Bulgaria 45.0%

Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria 12.6%

GERB-UDF 12.3%

Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) 6.8%

Vazrazhdane 4.2%

According to 95% parallel count by Trend:

Progressive Bulgaria 46.1% 

GERB-UDF 13% 

Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria 12%

Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) 6.4% 

Vazrazhdane 4.2% 

According to 100% parallel count by Market Links:

Progressive Bulgaria 44.4%

Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria 12.8%

GERB-UDF 12.4% 

Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) 6.3%

Interim results from Central Election Commission

Shortly after midnight, the Central Election Commission started publishing interim results. With 7.08% of section election commission protocols processed at the regional election commissions, the results were as follows:

Progressive Bulgaria 43.46%

Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria 13.97%

GERB–UDF 12.83%

Vazrazhdane 5.10% 

Movement for Rights and Freedoms 5.01%

About the elections

The vote is Bulgaria’s seventh snap parliamentary election since 2021. More than 6.5 million citizens were eligible to vote in over 11,000 polling stations across the country and abroad.

A total of 4,786 candidates competed for 240 seats in the National Assembly.

A 4% threshold is required for parliamentary entry.

Voting was conducted mainly by machine, with paper ballots available as a backup.

The process is overseen by the Central Election Commission, with domestic and international observers present. Official results are expected after vote counting is completed.