# 1991 Bulgarian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 13 October 1991. They were the first elections held under the country's first post-communist constitution, which had been promulgated three months earlier. Voter turnout was 84%.
The Union of Democratic Forces (SDS) emerged as the largest party, winning 110 of the 240 seats. The Bulgarian Socialist Party, the successor to the Communist Party, finished a close second with 106 seats. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which represented the ethnic-Turkish minority, won 24 seats. None of the other 58 parties that contested the elections crossed the 4% electoral threshold necessary to win seats in parliament.
Following the elections SDS leader Philip Dimitrov became Prime Minister, heading a coalition of the SDS and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms. It was the first noncommunist government in Bulgaria in 46 years.

## Results

Seats :
| | Union of Democratic Forces | 1,903,567 | 34.36 | 110 |
| | Pre-electoral Union of BSP, BLP, OPT | 1,836,050 | 33.14 | 106 |
| | Movement for Rights and Freedoms | 418,168 | 7.55 | 24 |
| | Bulgarian Agrarian National Union–United | 214,052 | 3.86 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union "Nikola Petkov" | 190,454 | 3.44 | 0 |
| | Union of Democratic Forces–Centre | 177,295 | 3.20 | 0 |
| | Union of Democratic Forces–Liberal (DP–ZP) | 155,902 | 2.81 | 0 |
| | Kingdom of Bulgaria Federation | 100,883 | 1.82 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Business Bloc | 73,379 | 1.32 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian National Radical Party | 62,462 | 1.13 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Business Party | 51,497 | 0.93 | 0 |
| | Freedom Coalition for the Turnovo Constitution | 39,719 | 0.72 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Communist Party | 39,386 | 0.71 | 0 |
| | Political Transformation Forum | 30,442 | 0.55 | 0 |
| | Movement of Non-partisans for Democracy | 22,588 | 0.41 | 0 |
| | Liberal Party – Pernik | 18,577 | 0.34 | 0 |
| | Coalition BNS, BOP and BNSND | 17,262 | 0.31 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian National Democratic Party | 15,399 | 0.28 | 0 |
| | Liberal Congress Party | 14,454 | 0.26 | 0 |
| | National Patrotic Union Party | 14,288 | 0.26 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Democratic Party | 13,767 | 0.25 | 0 |
| | Independent Democratic Party | 12,770 | 0.23 | 0 |
| | Free Cooperative Party | 12,150 | 0.22 | 0 |
| | Union of Non-partisan Guarantors | 9,945 | 0.18 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Revolutionary Party of Youth – Varna | 8,133 | 0.15 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists | 7,663 | 0.14 | 0 |
| | Radical Christian Party | 6,399 | 0.12 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party | 5,916 | 0.11 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Eagle Party | 4,853 | 0.09 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Worker-Rural Party – Varna | 3,793 | 0.07 | 0 |
| | Organisation of Invalids and Underprivileged Citizens of Bulgaria | 3,362 | 0.06 | 0 |
| | Free Democratic Party | 1,758 | 0.03 | 0 |
| | Bulgarian Democratic Party for European and World States | 984 | 0.02 | 0 |
| | Party for Free Democracy – Centre | 866 | 0.02 | 0 |
| | United Democratic Union 'Party for Justice' | 30 | 0.00 | 0 |
| | Party of Proprietors of Bulgaria | 8 | 0.00 | 0 |
| | Christian Radical Democratic Party | 5 | 0.00 | 0 |
| | Independents | 52,617 | 0.95 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 5,540,843 | 100.00 | 240 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 5,540,843 | 97.30 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 153,921 | 2.70 | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 5,694,764 | 100.00 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 6,790,006 | 83.87 | |
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver, University of Essex |||||