Bulgaria (European Parliament constituency)

Bulgaria
European Parliament constituency
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Member state	Bulgaria
Created	2007
MEPs	18 (2007 - 2009) 17 (2009 - 2011) 18 (2011 - 2014) 17 (2014 - present)
Sources

In European elections, Bulgaria is a constituency of the European Parliament, represented by seventeen MEPs. It covers the member state of Bulgaria.

Current MEPs

As of January 2015^[1]

Name	National Party	EP group
Nedzhmi Ali	Movement for Rights and Freedoms	ALDE
Nikolay Barekov	Bulgaria without Censorship	ECR
Angel Dzhambazki	IMRO-BNM	ECR
Mariya Gabriel	Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria	EPP
Filiz Hyusmenova	Movement for Rights and Freedoms	ALDE
Iliana Iotova	Bulgarian Socialist Party	PES
Andrey Kovatchev	Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria	EPP
Ilhan Kyuchyuk	Movement for Rights and Freedoms	ALDE
Svetoslav Malinov	Democrats for Strong Bulgaria	EPP
Iskra Mihaylova	Movement for Rights and Freedoms	ALDE
Momchil Nekov	Bulgarian Socialist Party	PES
Andrey Novakov	Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria	EPP
Eva Paunova	Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria	EPP
Georgi Pirinski	Bulgarian Socialist Party	PES
Emil Radev	Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria	EPP
Sergei Stanishev	Bulgarian Socialist Party	PES
Vladimir Urutchev	Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria	EPP

2007

The 2007 European election was Bulgaria's first since joining the European Union on 2007-01-01 and was held on 2007-05-20.

The top two parties scored 5 seats each; Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria and Bulgarian Socialist Party, followed by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms with four, Ataka with three, and National Movement Simeon II (NDSV) with one. It was considered likely that the result of the election would cause a major political crisis in Bulgaria, due to the expected weak results of the National Movement.^[2]

 Summary of the results of Bulgaria's 20 May 2007 election to the European Parliament

2007 • 2009 →
National party		European party	Leader(s)	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	GERB	EPP		420,001	21.68	—	5 / 18	—
	Coalition for Bulgaria (KB)	PES		414,786	21.41	—	5 / 18	—
	Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS)	ELDR		392,650	20.26	—	4 / 18	—
	Attack	NI		275,237	14.20	—	3 / 18	—
	National Movement Simeon II	ELDR		121,398	6.27	—	1 / 18	—
	Union of Democratic Forces	EPP		91,871	4.74	—	0	—
	Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria	EPP		84,350	4.35	—	0	—
	Coalition of Bulgarian Social Democrats (Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats, Political Movement "Social Democrats")	None		37,645	1.94	—	0	—
	Agrarian National Union	EPP		29,752	1.54	—	0	—
	Communist Party	None		18,988	0.98	—	0	—
	Union of Free Democrats	None		14,392	0.74	—	0	—
	Green Party	EGP		9,976	0.51	—	0	—
	Civil Union for New Bulgaria	None		9,398	0.49	—	0	—
	Order, Law and Justice (RZS)	None		9,147	0.47	—	0	—
	Mariya Stoyanova Serkedzhieva (independent)	None		5,323	0.27	—	0	—
	Nikola Petkov Ivanov (independent)	None		2,782	0.14	—	0	—
Sources: Izbori2007.eu, Europarl

2009

 Summary of the results of Bulgaria's 7 June 2009 election to the European Parliament

← 2007 • 2009 • 2014 →
National party		European party	Leader(s)	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–	Seats (post-Lisbon)	+/–
	GERB	EPP		627,693	24.36	2.68	5 / 17	0	5 / 18	0
	Coalition for Bulgaria (KB)	PES		476,618	18.50	2.91	4 / 17	1	4 / 18	0
	Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS)	ELDR		364,197	14.14	6.12	3 / 17	1	3 / 18	0
	Attack (PPA)	NI		308,052	11.96	2.24	2 / 17	1	2 / 18	0
	National Movement for Stability and Progress (NDSV)	ELDR		205,146	7.96	1.89	2 / 17	1	2 / 18	0
	Blue Coalition (SK)	EPP		204,817	7.95	1.14	1 / 17	1	2 / 18	1
	Liberal Initiative for Democratic European Development (LIDER)	None		146,984	5.70	new	0 / 17	0	0 / 18	0
	Order, Law and Justice (RZS)	None		120,280	4.67	4.20	0 / 17	0	0 / 18	0
	IMRO – Bulgarian National Movement (ВМРО)	None		57,931	2.25	new	0 / 17	0	0 / 18	0
	Others (parties and candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			64,716	2.51	—	0 / 17	0	0 / 18	0
Valid votes				2,576,434	99.03
Blank and invalid votes				25,245	0.97
Totals				2,601,679	100.00	—	17 / 17	1	18 / 18	1
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				6,684,770	37.49
Source: Bulgarian website

2014

 Summary of the results of Bulgaria's 25 May 2014 election to the European Parliament

← 2009 • 2014 • 2019 →
National party		European party	Leader(s)	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	GERB	EPP	Boyko Borisov	680,838	30.40	+6.04	6 / 17	1
	Coalition for Bulgaria (KB)	PES	Sergei Stanishev	424,037	18.93	+0.43	4 / 17	0
	Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS)	ALDE Party	Lyutvi Mestan	386,725	17.27	+3.13	4 / 17	1
	Bulgaria Without Censorship (BBT)	ECR	Nikolay Barekov	238,629	10.66	N/A	2 / 17	N/A
	Reformist Bloc (RB)	EPP	Radan Kanev	144,532	6.45	N/A	1 / 17	N/A
	Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (ABV)		Georgi Parvanov	90,061	4.02	N/A	0 / 17	N/A
	National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB)		Valeri Simeonov	68,376	3.05	N/A	0 / 17	N/A
	Attack (PPA)		Volen Siderov	66,210	2.96	-9.00	0 / 17	2
	Others (parties and candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			140,022	6.26%	—	0 / 17	2
Valid votes				2,239,407	94.8%
Blank and invalid votes				122,536	5.2%
Totals				2,361,943	100.00	—	17 / 17	1
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				6,533,828	36.15%	-1.34
Source:Central Electoral Commission

References

1. "European Parliament / MEPs". European Parliament. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
2. Bulgarien: EU-Wahl wird Zerreißprobe für Sofia « DiePresse.com

External links

• European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)
• List of MEPs europarl.europa.eu