1971 Bulgarian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 27 June 1971,[1] the first held under the new Zhivkov Constitution, which had been approved in a referendum held a month earlier.[2] The Fatherland Front, dominated by the Bulgarian Communist Party, was the only organisation to contest the election; all candidate lists had to be approved by the Front.[3] The Front nominated one candidate for each constituency. Of the 400 candidates 268 were members of the Communist Party, 100 were members of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the remaining 32 were unaffiliated.[2] Voter turnout was reportedly 99.9%.[4]

1971 Bulgarian parliamentary election

27 June 1971
400 seats to the Grand National Assembly
Turnout	100%
Leader Todor Zhivkov Party BCP Alliance Fatherland Front Seats won 400 Popular vote 6,154,082 Percentage 100%
PM before election Todor Zhivkov Fatherland Front Elected PM Stanko Todorov Fatherland Front

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Fatherland Front	6,154,082	100	400	−14
Against	1,487	0.0	–	–
Invalid/blank votes	4,373	–	–	–
Total	6,159,942	100	400	−14
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Bulgaria Inter-Parliamentary Union
3. Bulgaria: a country study. Library of Congress Federal Research Division, December 1989.
4. Nohlen & Stöver, p381