On 29 October, 2023, Bulgarians are voting for local authorities – mayors and municipal councilors. A little over 6 million 48,000 people have the right to vote. In this section you will find information, commentaries and analyses about the local elections in Bulgaria.
"We needed just a little more to win against the other coalition. All the power, financial, and technical resources available to PP-DB and GERB-SDS were harnessed against us". This is how Vanya Grigorova commented the results of the..
After 18 years of GERB rule, the capital will be led by a person whose candidacy was put forward by another political force. However, the second round of voting in Sofia ended in a "photo finish" - a difference of just under 2 per cent, or just over..
The results of the Central Election Commission with 100% of the election protocols processed in Sofia at 7 a.m. show that Vasil Terziev of the coalition "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria - Save Sofia" received 48.89% or 175 044 votes...
"The elections are not over for us. We are continuing a parallel count, stage by stage, vote by vote," Zhelyo Boychev of the election headquarters of Sofia mayoral candidate Vanya Grigorova told BNR. A difference of several thousand votes could not be..
The BSP has won the election of mayors in four regional cities - Ruse, Shumen, Razgrad and Silistra. This was announced at a briefing by BSP leader Kornelia Ninova. According to her, the BSP and the MRF are the two parties that have increased..
In Sofia, with a 100% processed sample from the parallel count conducted by Gallup International Balkan, BNR's partner in covering the local elections, Vasil Terziev (PP-DB, Save Sofia) leads the mayoral race with 48, 6 % of the vote. Vanya Grigorova..
The results of the local elections have shown that there is already a new alliance of convenience - of parties that "support Russia and Putin". These are We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) and Vazrazhdane," GERB leader Boyko Borissov..
Vasil Terziev, the candidate for mayor of Sofia from the PP-DB, Save Sofia, who, according to the exit polls, won the elections in the capital, thanked everyone who had voted for him. He said that he and his team would be holding a press conference on..
On 5 November, the run-off elections for mayors in 91 municipalities, 451 town halls and 31 districts (in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna) officially ended. According to preliminary data from the exit poll of Gallup International Balkan, BNR's partner in the..
One hour before the end of the second round of local elections in Bulgaria, turnout in Sofia was 33.4%. In Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city, 22.7 per cent of voters went to the polls, 30.5 per cent in Varna and 40.2 per cent in Blagoevgrad,..
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