1931 Bulgarian parliamentary election

1931 Bulgarian parliamentary election

21 June 1931

All 274 seats in the National Assembly
138 seats needed for a majority
Turnout85.21%
Party Leader Vote % Seats
People's Bloc Aleksandar Malinov
Dimitar Gichev
48.35 151
People's Coalition Andrey Lyapchev
Boyan Smilov
31.20 82
Workers' Party Vasil Kolarov 12.93 31
BRSDP (o) Yanko Sakazov 2.11 5
Socialist Federation Konstantin Stanishev 2.05 5
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Andrey Lyapchev
Lyapchev III (DA-NLP (S))
Aleksandar Malinov
Malinov V (DP-BZNS-V1-NLP (P)-RP)

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 21 June 1931 to elect members of the XXIII Ordinary National Assembly. The result was a victory for the Popular Bloc, an alliance of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Dragiev), the Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party (Petrov) and the Radical Democratic Party. Voter turnout was 85%. In addition to being elected proportionally in each constituency, 45 seats were allocated based on the national vote with a 2% threshold, to offset the disproportionality of the system.

This would be the last officially partisan election held in Bulgaria before World War II (the 1939 elections were officially nonpartisan, but candidates representing parties ran as individuals). By the time of the next elections in which parties were formally allowed to take part, in 1945, the country had been through two dictatorships and a third, Communist one was rapidly consolidating. As a result, the 1931 election was also the last free election held in the country until 1990.