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1911 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 4 September 1911. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 The result was a victory for the People's Party–Progressive Liberal Party alliance, which won 190 of the 213 seats. Voter turnout was 47.2%.Nohlen & Stöver, p378 Results References {{Bulgarian elections Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ... 1911 in Bulgaria Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria September 1911 events 1911 elections in Bulgaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. Bulgaria covers a territory of , and is the sixteenth-largest country in Europe. Sofia is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Neolithic Karanovo culture, which dates back to 6,500 BC. In the 6th to 3rd century BC the region was a battleground for ancient Thracians, Persians, Celts and Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. After the Roman state splintered, tribal invasions in the region resumed. Around the 6th century, these territories were settled by the early Slavs. The Bulgars, led by Asp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expert on electoral system An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections ma ...s and political development, he has published several books. IDEA Bibliography Books published by Nohlen include: *''Electoral systems of the world'' (in German, 1978) *''Lexicon of politics'' (seven volumes) *''Elections and Electoral Systems'' (1996) *''Electi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Party (Bulgaria)
The People's Party ( bg, Народна партия, ''Narodna partiya'') was a political party in Bulgaria between 1894 and 1920. History The party was established in 1894 by Konstantin Stoilov, winning the elections that year."The Bulgarian Elections", ''The Times'', 25 September 1894 The party went on to win the 1896 elections, but were reduced to just two seats in the 1899 elections.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p384 The NP recovered, claiming 29 seats in 1901 and 28 seats in 1902, before winning the 1903 elections with 134 of the 189 seats in the National Assembly. However, the independent Racho Petrov was appointed Prime Minister and formed a cabinet with members of the People's Liberal Party,Nohlen & Stöver, p391 who held just eight seats. The 1908 elections saw the party reduced to seven seats. However, in 1911 the NP formed an alliance with the Progressive Liberal Party that won large majorities in the Constitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Liberal Party (Bulgaria)
The Progressive Liberal Party ( bg, Прогресивнолиберална партия, ''Progresivnoliberalna partiya'', PLP) was a political party in Bulgaria. History The party was established by Dragan Tsankov as a splinter from the Liberal Party, and was pro-Russian in its orientation.Leon Trotsky (1980) ''The Balkan wars: 1912-13 : the war correspondence of Leon Trotsky'', Resistance Books, p484 In the 1894 elections it won eight of the 167 seats, a total it maintained in the 1899 elections. In the 1901 elections the PLP emerged as the largest party, winning 40 of the 164 seats.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p384 It remained the largest party after the 1902 elections, winning 89 seats, but was reduced to six seats in the 1903 elections. The 1908 elections saw the party win just three seats. For the 1911 Constitutional Assembly elections the PLP ran in alliance with the People's Party, with the joint list winning 34 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union
The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union Britannica also translated to English as Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union ( bg, Български земеделски народен съюз, ''Balgarski Zemedelski Naroden Sayuz''; BZNS) is a devoted to representing the causes of the n ry. It was an agrarian mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (Radoslavists)
The Liberal Party ( bg, Либерална партия, ''Liberalna partiya''), also known as the Radoslavists ( bg, радослависти) was a political party in Bulgaria from 1887 until 1920. History The party was established by Vasil Radoslavov as a splinter from the People's Liberal Party (PLP) in 1887,RJ Crampton (2007) ''Bulgaria'', Oxford University Press, p451 going on to lose to the PLP in the elections that year."The Bulgarian Question", ''The Times'', 12 October 1887 The 1894 elections saw the party win 27 seats. During 1899 the party briefly merged with the PLP to form the United Liberal Party, but the two separated again later in the year. In April 1899 it won an absolute majority in the National Assembly with 89 of the 169 seats.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p384 However, the party was reduced to just five seats in the 1901 elections. It won seven seats in 1902 and nine in 1903. In 1904 a group of members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (Bulgaria)
The Democratic Party ( bg, Демократическа партия, ''Demokraticheska partia'', DP) is a centre-right political party in Bulgaria led by Alexander Pramatarski. The party was a member of the European People's Party (EPP). History The Democratic Party was formed by a breakaway from the Liberal Party led by Petko Karavelov in 1896. In the 1899 elections the party won 10 seats. It went on to win 27 in 1901, with Karavelov briefly serving as Prime Minister after the elections in a coalition government with the People's Liberal Party (PLP). Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p391 However, the DP was reduced to seven seats in the 1902 elections. After remaining at seven seats following the 1903 elections and despite suffering a split in 1905 when the Young Democrats broke away to form the Radical Democratic Party, the party achieved a landslide in the 1908 elections, winning 166 of the 203 seats. Aleksandar Malinov became the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Liberal Party
The People's Liberal Party ( bg, Народнолиберална партия, ''Narodnoliberalna partiya'', NLP) was a political party in Bulgaria. History One of the four factions to emerge from the old Liberal Party, the party was established by Stefan Stambolov in 1886 as the Bulgaria for itself organisation, before becoming the NLP the following year.Plamen Georgiev (2007''The Bulgarian Political Culture'' V&R Unipress 2007, p65 It was the ruling party until Stambolov was dismissed from his post of Prime Minister by Prince Ferdinand in 1894, after which it was briefly banned. In the 1899 elections the party emerged as the second largest in the National Assembly with 19 of the 169 seats,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p384 and during the same year it briefly merged with the Radoslavist Liberal Party to form the United Liberal Party, before demerging.RJ Crampton (2007) ''Bulgaria'', Oxford University Press, p451 The 1901 el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical Democratic Party (Bulgaria)
The Radical Democratic Party ( bg, Радикалдемократическа партия) is a liberal party in Bulgaria. The party was founded in 1902 (other sources: 1905) by Naičo Canov and other dissidents from the Democratic Party. It was banned in 1934, revived in 1944 and again banned in 1949. In 1989 the party was re-established. It elected as its leader Elka Konstantinova. She was succeeded in 1994 by Aleksander Jordanov Alexander Yordanov (Bulgarian: Александър Александров Йорданов, ''Aleksand'r Aleksandrov Jordanov'', born 13 February 1952) is a Bulgarian literary critic and politician who was elected as a Member of the European ..., and the party became an affiliated member of the Union of Democratic Forces. In 1995 the party split, with one faction remaining inside the Union of Democratic Forces, and another faction becoming an independent party. Though the party still exists, it lacks its former influence. External linksRadical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Communist Party
The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP; bg, Българска Комунистическа Партия (БКП), Balgarska komunisticheska partiya (BKP)) was the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 until 1989, when the country ceased to be a socialist state. The party had dominated the Fatherland Front, a coalition that took power in 1944, late in World War II, after it led a coup against Bulgaria's tsarist regime in conjunction with the Red Army's crossing the border. It controlled its armed forces, the Bulgarian People's Army. The BCP was organized on the basis of democratic centralism, a principle introduced by the Russian Marxist scholar and leader Vladimir Lenin, which entails democratic and open discussion on policy on the condition of unity in upholding the agreed upon policies. The highest body of the BCP was the Party Congress, convened every fifth year. When the Party Congress was not in session, the Central Committee was the hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)
The Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists) ( bg, Българска работническа социалдемократическа партия (широки социалисти), ''Balgarska rabotnicheska sotsialdemokraticheska partiya (shiroki sotsialisti)'') was a reformist socialist political party in Bulgaria. The party emerged from a division at the Tenth Party Congress of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party held in 1903 (the other faction forming the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists)). The 'Broad Socialist' faction had appeared inside the pre-split party around 1900, when Yanko Sakazov had started the magazine ''Obshto delo'' ('Common Action'). The Broad Socialists, analogous to the Mensheviks in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, argued in favour a broad social base of the party and broad class alliances.Linden, Marcel van der, and Jürgen Rojahn. The Formation of Labour Movements, 1870–1914: An In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Liberals Party
The Young Liberals Party ( bg, Младолиберална партия, ''Mladoliberalna partiya'', MLP) was a political party in Bulgaria during the early 20th century. History The party was established in 1904 by Dimitar Tonchev after a group of Radoslavist Liberal Party members were expelled following a failed attempt to remove Vasil Radoslavov as party leader.RJ Crampton (2007) ''Bulgaria'', Oxford University Press, p454 In their first elections in 1908 the party failed to win a seat. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p385 The MLP again failed to win a seat in the 1911 Constitutional Assembly elections, but did win one seat in the parliamentary elections later in the year, in which it formed local alliances with the Radoslavist Liberal Party and the People's Liberal Party.Nohlen & Stöver, p378 The three parties formed the Liberal Concentration alliance for the 1913 elections, emerging as the largest faction in the National Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
