- GERB-SDS lost Sofia from PP-DB by 18 thousand votes. He won only the 25th MIR with Borisov at the helm
- “Yes, Bulgaria” demonstrated to their partners how a personal vote is collected
The war of preferences in the PP-DB coalition, which was supposed to raise the results according to the idea of ”Yes, Bulgaria”, gave results. At the expense of DSB leader Atanas Atanasov, who was pushed from second to fourth position in the 23rd MIR in Sofia. From the strong faces of “Yes, Bulgaria” Bozhidar Bojanov and Elisaveta Belobradova. Kato Bojanov would beat the former head of the NSS with 7 to 1 in preferences.
The largest district in the capital and the country turned out to be the golden one for the PP-DB, where the coalition collected 64,430 votes for the PP-DB. In this region, the list was led by Kiril Petkov. Right after him, in second place was the leader of the DSB, Atanas Atanasov, but he has only 1,409 personal votes. And he will be replaced by the 7th on the list, Bozhidar Bojanov from “Yes, Bulgaria”, who after the resignation of Hristo Ivanov in the 50th parliament became the leading figure of the party.
Bojanov is the champion of Bulgaria in terms of preferences with 10,472 personal votes
The scenario was similar in the elections in June, when Bojanov collected 7,496 preferences and again rearranged the list of the coalition.
Elisaveta Belobradova, the 10th in a row, comes in third place with 6212 preferences. Thus Atanasov goes to the fourth position, the fifth becomes the third Vasil Pandov. And the sixth will be Venko Sabrutev. And for the fifth Ivaylo Mirchev – another strong face of “Yes, Bulgaria”, who collected 3959 preferences, only 589 were not enough for him to push Atanasov as well.
A strong internal race helped the victory against the GERB list led by Raya Nazaryan, which garnered 42,599 votes in the district. The head of the previous National Assembly herself has 4,980 personal votes.
In the 24th district, which covers the most central districts of the capital, PP-DB led by Nadezhda Yordanova from “Yes, Bulgaria” received a total of 38,083 votes. And the list of GERB-SDS, which was led by the former mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova, collected 31,609 votes.
A rearrangement in the 24th MIR is again expected to be in the lists of PP-DB. Second after Yordanova will be the 13th Martin Dimitrov. He has collected 4462 preferences. So Lena Borislavova goes one place behind. 3787 people voted for her personally.
Only in the leadership 25th MIR, where Boyko Borisov was the leader, GERB managed to get the most of all – a total of 35,559 votes (9912 for him personally).
In this region, Borisov managed to defeat Nikolay Denkov
and PP-DB, which collected 25,772 votes (4,946 of them were preferences for the academician). This was also the only district in the country where two former prime ministers of the country faced each other. Borisov headed the three GERB governments between 2009 and 2021, and Denkov headed the cabinet of the so-called assembly between PP-DB and GERB in 2022, which lasted only nine months and failed when the prime ministership was to be taken over by Maria Gabriel.
In the lists of PP-DB in the 25th MIR with preferences, Dr. Alexander Simidchiev moved the vote. He went from fifth to second with 2,870 personal votes. Thus he replaced Kristina Petkova.
In all of Sofia, the result of PP-DB is 128,285 votes – almost half of the votes of the coalition in these elections in general. GERB-SDS received 109,767 votes in the capital.
However, things are not like that in the Sofia region. There, GERB is first with its 25,005 votes in total. They are followed by “Vazrazhdane” with 10,193 votes, and third are “DPS-New Beginning” with 10,134.
A change in the lists is expected precisely at GERB, where Mladen Marinov is the leader. Second on the list after him was the lawyer and MP Marin Marinov, but the ninth – Valentin Milushev – will come in his place with preferences. He is also a member of parliament and is the municipal head of GERB in Samokov. Milushev collected 2,878 personal votes.
The historian from Kostinbrod, Yablenka Traikova, ranks from eighth to third place. She received 1784 preferences.
Three candidates, two of whom are the sons of mayors from GERB, succeeded in defeating the former head of the parliament and leader of the party list in Blagoevgrad, Rosen Zhelyazkov. Although it is coming in fourth place, it is expected to re-enter parliament as analysts give the party four seats from the district.
Zhelyazkov collected 1,524 personal votes. As the leader of the list, however, his vote also includes that of the people who did not mark a preference, but voted for GERB – 4,829 people. Thus, Zhelyazkov received a total of 6,353 votes. However, they proved to be insufficient to keep the first place.
The sons of two mayors from GERB are ranked with a record number of personal votes in the district. By tradition, the last on the list, Stefan Apostolov, who is the son of the mayor of Simitli, Apostol Apostolov, collected a record 7,606 preferences. With them, he displaced Zhelyazkov from first place.
The fifth on the list, Ivan Gerchev, son of the mayor of Razlog, Krasimir Gerchev, will enter the parliament for the first time, going from fifth place to third with 6,673 personal votes.
Kostadin Stoykov from Petrican collects a record 7186 preferences and becomes second after Stefan Apostolov.
The fourth on the list – Georgi Georgiev from Sandanski – receives an impressive number of preferences – a total of 6150. However, they are less than Zhelyazkov’s and so he will go to fifth place.
Otherwise, GERB are first in terms of votes in Blagoevgrad. The list led by Zhelyazkov has gathered the support of 40,638 people. “DPS-New Beginning” ranks second with 26,620 votes. At the top of the list was their leader Delyan Peevski. 938 preferences have been released for him.
In third place in Blagoevgrad with 11,132 votes is the list of PP-DB, led by Andrey Tsekov. Fourth are “Vazrazhdane” with 10,208 votes, and fifth “BSP – United Left” with 10,024 with leader Kiril Dobrev.
GERB-SDS also win the vote in Plovdiv-city. They received a total of 31,779, and PP-DB – 20,019, which ranks them second in terms of results.
With twice as many preferences as Asen Vasilev in Plovdiv-city is Boyko Borisov,
making him the absolute personal vote champion in the city. The difference between the two list leaders is 3,403 votes.
Borisov received 6,826 preferences, and Vassilev took 3,423 votes.
The mayor of Plovdiv Kostadin Dimitrov, who was immediately after the party leader in the list of GERB-SDS, has 2264 preferences.
According to tradition, the pages of PP-DB in the City under the hills are moved by Manol Peykov. 3,938 people cast their votes for him and so he goes to second place, pushing Stoya Stoev.
In Plovdiv-region with the most preferences, the leader of GERB-SDS is Tsveta Karayancheva. She received 2,687 personal votes. Mladen Shishkov from Rakovski rearranges the lists again and from fourth to second, displacing Dr. Ivan Chervenkov from Asenovgrad. Shishkov received 2,564 personal votes, with only Rakovski getting 1,676.
A transfer at GERB is also expected in Veliko Tarnovo,
where the leader of the list is Prof. Kostadin Angelov. Due to preferences, the second place will change – Rositsa Dimitrova (with 1,933 personal votes), and the third on the list, Dimitar Nikolov (2,551 people voted for him).
The second and third will also change their places in the list of PP-DB in Ruse. The guide there is Martin Dimitrov. Second will be Ivan Belchev with 1309 personal votes, and third will be Rena Stefanova with 416 preferences.
The winner of the personal vote in Pazardzhik is lawyer Dafinka Semerdzhieva. Years ago, she was the deputy regional governor there. And now she is in third place on the GERB-SDS list and 6,427 people voted for her personally. She will replace the second in the list, engineer Valeri Valkov.
With the highest percentage of trust from “DPS – New Beginning” are Iskra Mihailova, who is the leader of the list (with 361 preferences) and the second after her is Nebie Kabak from the city of Sarnitsa, who has collected 1053. However, she does not manage to displace the former MEP from first place, as she also receives the remaining 9,579 votes of those who did not name a favorite. If Mihailova prefers to enter from the 25th MIR, where she is also a guide, Osman Muradov will travel to Sofia. Thus, he will become an MP for the third time.
1,735 preferences were also collected by the leader of the “Vazrazhdane” list – Stoyan Taslakov, who is also a sure member of the next National Assembly.
PP-DB leader Ivaylo Shotev, who has collected the most personal preferences from the list – 777, is going to the parliament once again, followed by Nikola Golomeev and Dr. Elisaveta Georgieva.
The leader of the list of “BSP – United Left” Petya Tsankova will once again continue to represent the district in the 51st National Assembly, she has the preferential support of 1,602 people.
561 votes were won by the PR expert Evgeni Minchev, who ran fourth on the list of the BSP in the 24th MIR Sofia. However, he fails to move the leaves. However, the lawyer Nataliya Kiselova is one place ahead due to preferences.
2235 people voted for her personally. Thus, from third place she moves to second, where Georgi Angelov was.