site.btaGERB Wins Capital, Loses at Least Three Regional Cities in Second Round of Local Elections, Show Early Results

November 3 (BTA) - GERB's candidate for Sofia mayor, Yordanka Fandakova, was re-elected to the post for a fourth term, show early results of the second round of local elections held across Bulgaria on Sunday. The incumbents won the second and third biggest cities of Plovdiv and Varna, but have lost at least three regional capitals. Candidates nominated and supported by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) have won the elections in Blagoevgrad and Rousse, show the inconclusive results.

Following are preliminary results of the second round voting at the local elections in Bulgaria according to 100 per cent parallel vote count conducted by the respective polling agency, for the respective city. Conclusive results in respect of all the 19 regional capitals in Bulgaria, where run-off elections were held, are expected on Monday.

Sofia
Alpha Research
Yordanka Fandakova (GERB) 50.3 per cent
Maya Manolova (independent candidate backed by BSP) 45.7 per
cent
"None of the above" votes: 4 per cent

Plovdiv
Alpha Research
Zdravko Dimitrov (GERB) 56.9 per cent
Slavcho Atanassov (NFSB-VMRO local coalition) 38.6 per cent
"None of the above" votes: 4.5 per cent

Varna
Alpha Research
Ivan Portnih (GERB) 60 per cent
Kostadin Kostadinov (Vazrazhdane) 36.8 per cent
"None of the above" votes: 4 per cent

Blagoevgrad
Gallup
Roumen Tomov (BSP) 56.8 per cent
Atanas Kambitov (GERB) 41.2 per cent
"None of the above" votes: 2 per cent

Rousse
Alpha Research
Pencho Milkov (BSP) 60.3 per cent
Diana Ivanova (GERB) 36.8 per cent
"None of the above" votes: 2.9 per cent

Pleven
Alpha Research
Georg Spartanski (independent) 52.3 per cent
Miroslav Petrov (GERB) 45,6 per cent
"None of the above" votes: 2.1 per cent

Vidin
Gallup
Tsvetan Tsenkov (UDF-led local coalition) 57.8 per cent
Ognyan Tsenkov (GERB) 39.7 per cent
"None of the above" votes: 2.5 per cent

Shoumen
Gallup
Lyubomir Hristov (GERB) 52.1 per cent
Ventsislav Venkov (BSP) 44.4 per cent.
"None of the above" votes: 3.5 per cent.