site.btaParliamentary Elections: GERB-UDF Get 25.85%, There Is Such a People 18.19%, BSP for Bulgaria 14.91%, Based on 72.35% of Tally Sheetss

Sofia, April 5 (BTA) - Based on 72.35 per cent of district
election commission tally sheets handled by constituency
election commissions, the GERB-UDF coalition won Sunday's
parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on 25.85 per cent of the
vote, the Central Election Commission (CEC) reported on Monday.

There Is Such a People placed second on 18.19 per cent, followed
  by BSP for Bulgaria in third place on 14.91 per cent,
Democratic Bulgaria 10.14 per cent, the Movement for Rights and
 Freedoms 9.18 per cent, Rise Up! Thugs Out! 4.92 per cent, VMRO
  3.55 per cent, and Vazrazhdane 2.65 per cent.  Volya-NFSB got
2.45 per cent of the vote, Republicans for  Bulgaria 1.17 per
cent, Ataka 0.50 per cent, and ABV 0.48 per  cent.

A total of 34,054 voters checked the "None of the above" box on
the ballot sheet, meaning they did not support any of the
candidates.

GERB-UDF are the leading political force in Blagoevgrad, where
their score is 34 per cent, and also in Veliko Turnovo, Varna,
Sliven, Haskovo, Vidin, Plovdiv, Dobrich, Pernik. There Is Such
a People lead in Pleven, the birthplace of their leader Slavi
Trifonov. BSP for Bulgaria lead in Yambol on 27 per cent.

The data was collated around 12.30 a.m. on Monday.

CEC also reported the following expatriate voting results based
on 86.88 per cent of tally sheets of overseas district election
commissions: There Is Such a People 29.83 per cent, Democratic
Bulgaria 16.81 per cent, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms
14.66, GERB-UDF 8.73 per cent, Vazrazhdane (Revival) 7.21 per
cent, BSP for Bulgaria 6.58 per cent, Bulgarian National Unity
5.28 per cent, Rise Up! Thugs Out! 4.27 per cent, VMRO 1.59 per
cent, Volya-NFSB 0.55 per cent, Republicans for Bulgaria 0.41
per cent, ABV 0.36 per cent, and Ataka 0.32 per cent.

The data was collated around 7.30 a.m. Bulgarian time on Monday.

Bulgarian expatriates cast their ballot in 464 voting sections
in 69 countries. A voting section in France stayed closed due to
 anti-COVID restrictions. In some foreign locations, part of the
 electorate could not vote as they lined up outside the voting
sections. NV/VE