1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election

1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election

19 April 1997

All 240 seats in the National Assembly
121 seats needed for a majority
Turnout58.87%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
ODS Ivan Kostov 52.26 137 +68
KzB Georgi Parvanov 22.07 58 −67
DPS Ahmed Dogan 7.60 19 +4
BEL Aleksandar Tomov 5.50 14 New
BBB George Ganchev 4.93 12 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Stefan Sofiyanski
SDS
(Sofiyanski Government)
Ivan Kostov
ODS
(Kostov Government)

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 19 April 1997. The result was a victory for the United Democratic Forces (an alliance of the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), the Democratic Party, the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union-Nikola Petkov and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party), which won 137 of the 240 seats. Following the election, SDS leader Ivan Kostov became prime minister.