1946 Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election

Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Bulgaria on 27 October 1946,[1] electing members of the sixth Grand National Assembly, which was tasked with adopting a new constitution. The Fatherland Front, an anti-fascist coalition dominated by the Bulgarian Communist Party, had come to power in 1944 following a coup. Now that World War II was over and the monarchy abolished, the communists wanted to adopt a new constitution. They won a large majority, with 54% of the vote and 278 of the 465 seats. Voter turnout was 93%.[2] This would be the lowest vote share that the Communists or the Fatherland Front would claim during the 43 years of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. In subsequent years, the Fatherland Front would claim to win elections with unanimous or near-unanimous support. This would be the last truly multi-party elections until 1990.

1946 Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election
People's Republic of Bulgaria
27 October 1946
All 465 seats in the Grand National Assembly
Turnout92.61%
PartyLeader % Seats
BKP Georgi Dimitrov 53.88 278
BZNS (NP)–ORSDP 28.35 101
BZNS 13.43 68
BRSDP 1.90 9
Zveno 1.68 8
RDP 0.21 1
PM before PM after
Kimon Georgiev
OF		 Georgi Dimitrov
OF
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Results
PartyVotes%Seats
Bulgarian Communist Party2,264,85253.88278
BZNS (Nikola Petkov)–ORSDP1,191,45528.35101
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union564,58113.4368
Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)79,7741.909
Zveno70,7311.688
Democratic Party22,7360.540
Radical Democratic Party8,8680.211
Independents2980.010
Total4,203,295100.00465
Valid votes4,203,29598.52
Invalid/blank votes63,3191.48
Total votes4,266,614100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,607,30792.61
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp368 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p376
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