Talk:1927 Bulgarian parliamentary election

Results

@Arise13, Becksperson, Kostja, and Quinnnnnby: I wondered whether you may be able to help with an issue regarding the results of this election. The main source for this article (Nohlen & Stöver) does not provide a clear set of results. As you can see from the current results section in the article, there is not a clear relationship between parties receiving votes and parties winning seats (in the book the vote and seat figures are on different pages and do not align), so two separate tables had to be used to accurately display what the source says.

I found another source (Statisticheski godishnik na Tsarstvo Bŭlgarii︠a︡ from 1927) which confirms the vote figures, but gives slightly more details on the parties and fills in some gaps (e.g. how the Social Democrats won seats despite not being mentioned in the vote figures in the Nohlen book – because they were part of a BZNS-led alliance). Using that, I have created an updated results table below.

However, there is one major issue outstanding – the Statisticheski book states that the coalition led by the Markov faction of the BZNS received 285,758 votes and the coalition led by the Dragiev faction received 29,637 votes. However, the seat figures (from the Nohlen book) are 46 for the Dragiev faction and 0 for the Markov faction.

I assume there is a mistake somewhere about which faction of the BZNS was in the coalition receiving the most votes, as it would make sense that they won 46 seats rather than the one with fewer than 30,000 votes. Is anyone able to shed any light on this (with a source that can be used for the revised results table). It may be in the Statisticheski book, but I can only view snippets of it online and cannot see where the seat figures are listed. Cheers, Number 57 11:44, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

According to this source by the famous British historian Richard J. Crampton, the Social Democrats combined with the Agrarians (meaning in this case, the more left-wing Agrarians) and gained 11 seats. There is no indication in the current article about such an alliance and the number of seats does not fit to each other. Does anybody know any other sources for the elections? Derim Hunt (talk) 14:22, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

That is roughly in line with the 10 seats mentioned in Nohlen and Statisticheski godishnik na Tsarstvo Bŭlgarii︠a︡. The issue is the number of votes received by the respective Agrarian alliances. It seems very odd that a coalition receiving 286,000 votes would win only ten seats, yet one receiving 30,000 votes wins 46... Number 57 22:46, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats
	DA–NLP (Stambolov)		Democratic Alliance	414,591	35.92	174
			DA-NLP (Stambolov)	108,001	9.36	0
	BZNS (Markov)–BRSDP (ShS)–Craftsmen		BZNS (Markov)	285,758	24.76	0
			Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)			10
			Craftsmen			0
	BZNS (Tomov)–DP–NLP (Kyorchev)		Democratic Party	179,491	15.55	11
			National Liberal Party (Kyorchev)			7
			Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Tomov)			6
	Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization			37,854	3.28	7
	BZNS (Dragiev)–RDP		Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Dragiev)	29,637	2.57	46
			Radical Democratic Party (Bulgaria)			0
	Bulgarian Communist Party			29,210	2.53	0
	National Liberal United Party			18,540	1.61	0
	United People's Progressive Party			17,249	1.49	0
	Democratic Party			12,414	1.08	–
	Independents			21,568	1.87	0
Total				1,154,313	100.00	261
Valid votes				1,154,313	97.57
Invalid/blank votes				28,809	2.43
Total votes				1,183,122	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				1,403,972	84.27