🇧🇬 Bulgarian elections megathread (next up: European and National (?) Parliament 09 June 2024)

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Who the f**k is holding an election on an Easter Sunday ?

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Who the f**k is holding an election on an Easter Sunday ?

Bulgaria is Orthodox, we don't celebrate Easter on the same day as Catholics

Interesting.

I thought that's only for Christmas.

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Turnout very low.

Maybe only 45% (down from 54% in 2017).

Bulgaria's population is shrinking fast, so that's a reason and maybe COVID.

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Turnout very low.

Maybe only 45% (down from 54% in 2017).

Bulgaria's population is shrinking fast, so that's a reason and maybe COVID.

Not that low really. By 5pm it was about 40%, compared to about 43% in 2017.

I only had the 12:00 numbers available.

It still only has those numbers, no 17:00 numbers:

https://results.cik.bg/pi2021/aktivnost/

Also, why does it say 6.5 million registered voters - when Austrian/German newspapers say 6.7 million registered voters ?

Are there 200.000 Bulgarians registered to vote abroad ?

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How did Bansko ski resort vote in 2017 ?

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Turnout very low.

Maybe only 45% (down from 54% in 2017).

Bulgaria's population is shrinking fast, so that's a reason and maybe COVID.

Not that low really. By 5pm it was about 40%, compared to about 43% in 2017.

I only had the 12:00 numbers available.

It still only has those numbers, no 17:00 numbers:

https://results.cik.bg/pi2021/aktivnost/

Also, why does it say 6.5 million registered voters - when Austrian/German newspapers say 6.7 million registered voters ?

Are there 200.000 Bulgarians registered to vote abroad ?

There has been an update by the Central Election Commision.

As for the total number of registered voters, there are indeed about 6.5 million of them (on paper, in reality there a lot fewer voters actually living in the country). I have no idea where the 6.7 million figure comes from. There is certainly no registration of voters living outside the country.

It's absurd to think that Bulgaria would have 6.53 million registered voters, when the total population has declined by almost 70.000 last year to less than 6.8 million.

I don't think there are more than 5 million actual registered voters (if you remove all the dead people still on the papers and those who moved abroad).

Which would mean real turnout is not 50% today, but more like 60%+.

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Also, why does it say 6.5 million registered voters - when Austrian/German newspapers say 6.7 million registered voters ?

Are there 200.000 Bulgarians registered to vote abroad ?

I have no idea where the 6.7 million figure comes from. There is certainly no registration of voters living outside the country.

Austrian+German media says 6.7 million:

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-sendungen/parlamentswahl-bulgarien-video-100.html

https://www.sn.at/politik/weltpolitik/opposition-hofft-bei-parlamentswahl-in-bulgarien-auf-wandel-101969017

Maybe because they don't understand that Bulgaria is rapidely shrinking.

The Central Voting Commission had

6.810.341 registered voters in 2017
6.525.625 registered voters today

Austrian+German media then is like: "Let's subtract 100.000 people from the 2017 number and it will probably be OK ..."

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Interactive map of Bulgaria (districts, cities) and demographics (grey bar to the left of the map):

https://www.citypopulation.de/en/bulgaria/admin/

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Question:

What were the 2017 results of the 2 following cities ?

Svištov (a city of 34.000, that had 48.000 people in 2001 and declines by 2.5% each year)

Nesebǎr (a city on the Black Sea that has grown from 19.000 to 29.000 in the past 2 decades)

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Pretty sad to see that Social Dem parties still cannot gain ground anywhere (with a few exceptions) even in a global medical crisis - which should be their core competence ...

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Question:

What were the 2017 results of the 2 following cities ?

Svištov (a city of 34.000, that had 48.000 people in 2001 and declines by 2.5% each year)

Nesebǎr (a city on the Black Sea that has grown from 19.000 to 29.000 in the past 2 decades)

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(Are there 2021 results already ?)