List of Bulgarian constituencies

Bulgaria is divided into 31 multi-member constituencies for the purposes of elections to the National Assembly.

Background

Bulgaria is divided into 28 provinces. Most of these correspond exactly to the constituencies, but Sofia City Province is divided in 3 and Plovdiv Province is divided in 2.^[1] Plovdiv Province is divided between the 16th MMC (consisting of the City of Plovdiv) and the 17th MMC (consisting of the rest of the province). Sofia City Province (not to be confused with Sofia Province) is divided between the 23rd (southern Sofia), 24th (central and eastern Sofia), and 25th (western Sofia) MMCs.

In addition to their names, constituencies are numbered from 1 to 31 according to their order in the Cyrillic alphabet. There are a total of 240 seats in the National Assembly, and each constituency elects between 4 (the guaranteed minimum number of seats in a constituency) and 16 members of parliament.

List of constituencies

Seat allocation by constituency

Below is the numbers of MPs allocated to each constituency by election year. The number of MPs in 2009 only adds up to 209 because of the electoral system experiment of that year (see further below).

MMC	Constituency	Seats
MMC	Constituency	2005	2009*	2013	2014	2017^[2]
1	Blagoevgrad	10	9	11	11	11
2	Burgas	13	11	14	14	14
3	Varna	14	12	15	15	15
4	Veliko Tarnovo	9	8	8	8	8
5	Vidin	4	3	4	4	4
6	Vratsa	7	6	6	6	6
7	Gabrovo	4	4	4	4	4
8	Dobrich	7	6	6	6	6
9	Kardzhali	5	4	5	5	5
10	Kyustendil	5	4	4	4	4
11	Lovech	5	4	5	5	5
12	Montana	6	5	5	5	5
13	Pazardzhik	9	8	9	9	9
14	Pernik	5	4	4	4	4
15	Pleven	10	9	9	9	9
16	Plovdiv-city	10	9	11	11	11
17	Plovdiv-province	11	10	11	11	11
18	Razgrad	5	4	4	4	4
19	Ruse	8	7	8	8	8
20	Silistra	4	4	4	4	4
21	Sliven	7	6	6	6	6
22	Smolyan	4	4	4	4	4
23	Sofia-23	13	11	16	16	16
24	Sofia-24	11	10	12	12	12
25	Sofia-25	12	10	14	14	14
26	Sofia-province	8	7	8	8	8
27	Stara Zagora	11	10	11	11	11
28	Targovishte	4	4	4	4	4
29	Haskovo	8	7	8	8	8
30	Shumen	6	5	6	6	6
31	Yambol	5	4	4	4	4
	Total	240	209*	240	240	240

2009 experiment

As an experiment, the 2009 election was conducted with a different electoral system than earlier elections. 31 out of the 240 MPs were elected through first-past-the-post voting, while the remaining 209 were elected through party-list proportional representation using the largest remainder method. This mixed electoral system was rejected for use in further elections, and the old system was returned in the next election in 2013.

The following 31 members of the National Assembly were elected through first-past-the-post in 2009:

	Member	Party
Blagoevgrad	Lyuben Petrov Tatarski	GERB
Burgas	Bozhidar Dimitrov Stoyanov	GERB
Varna	Krasimir Petrov Petrov	GERB
Veliko Tarnovo	Tsvetan Genchev Tsvetanov	GERB
Vidin	Lyubomila Stanislavova Stanislavova	GERB
Vratsa	Nikolay Goranov Kotsev	GERB
Gabrovo	Galina Dimitrova Bankovska	GERB
Dobrich	Rumen Ivanov Ivanov	GERB
Kardzhali	Ahmed Demir Dogan	DPS
Kyustendil	Valentin Tonchev Mikev	GERB
Lovech	Anatoliy Velikov Jordanov	GERB
Montana	Plamen Georgiev Tsekov	GERB
Pazardzhik	Ivan Dimitrov Ivanov	GERB
Pernik	Irena Lyubenova Sokolova	GERB
Pleven	Tsetska Tsacheva Dangovska	GERB
Plovdiv-city	Menda Kirilova Stoyanova	GERB
Plovdiv-province	Dimitar Nikolov Lazarov	GERB
Razgrad	Hasan Ahmed Ademov	DPS
Ruse	Plamen Dulchev Nunev	GERB
Silistra	Mithat Mehmed Tabakov	DPS
Sliven	Desislava Zhekova Taneva	GERB
Smolyan	Daniela Anastasova Daritkova-Prodanova	GERB
Sofia-23	Boris Krumov Grozdanov	GERB
Sofia-24	Monika Hans Panayotova	GERB
Sofia-25	Krasimir Lyubomirov Velchev	GERB
Sofia-province	Emil Delchev Dimitrov	GERB
Stara Zagora	Ivan Dechkov Kolev	GERB
Targovishte	Kasim Ismail Dal	DPS
Haskovo	Delyan Aleksandrov Dobrev	GERB
Shumen	Georgi Velkov Kolev	DPS
Yambol	Anastas Vasilev Anastasov	GERB

Sources

^ "Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Bulgarian National Assembly".
^ Seat allocation by constituency in 2017, from the Central Election Commission of Bulgaria (in Bulgarian)

[1] "Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Bulgarian National Assembly".

[2] Seat allocation by constituency in 2017, from the Central Election Commission of Bulgaria (in Bulgarian)

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