#Bulgaria, national parliament election today:

National-conservative VRMO in exit polls

Alpha Research: 4.0%
Gallup International: 4.7%

Threshold to enter parliament: 4%

Note: VRMO is a government coalition partner.

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#Bulgaria, Alpha Research PM CEST exit poll (seat projection):

Majority: 121

GERB/SDS-EPP: 70
BSPzB-S&D: 48
ITN-*: 41
DPS-RE: 30
DB-G/EFA|EPP: 28
ISMV-G/EFA|EPP: 12
VMRO-ECR: 11

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#Bulgaria: All available exit polls show that the right-wing Volya (ID) and the right-wing NFSB (*) lose representation in the national parliament in today's election.

The parties campaigned on a shared list and supported the incumbent Borissov government.

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#Bulgaria: the far-right Ataka (~NI) party suffers its worst electoral defeat since its creation in 2005.

National parliament elections

2005: 8.1%
2009: 9.4%
2013: 7.3%
2014: 4.5%
2017: 9.1% (shared list with VMRO-ECR & NFSB-*)
2021: 0.7% (Alpha Research exit poll)

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#Bulgaria: During today's national parliament election, Gallup International asked supporters of the 2020-2021 protest who they voted for in today's election.

Most named opposition parties, such as the centre-left BSP (S&D) with 22% and the centrist ITN (*) with 22%.

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#Bulgaria: Exit polls show that the centrist ITN (*) enters the national parliament with ~16% in today's election.

That would be the strongest performance of a new party in a national parliament election in the EU since Emmanuel Macron's LREM in 2017 in France.

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#Bulgaria: According to tonight's exit polls, the centre-right GERB-led list wins the most votes in today's national parliament election.

However, it is the smallest vote share a winner of the plurality ever received (since democratisation in 1990).

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#Bulgaria: Tonight's Alpha Research exit poll shows that Slavi Trifonov's centrist ITN (*) was especially successful among voters aged 18-30 years.

In this age group, the party (that was only founded in 2020) even received a plurality of votes.

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#Bulgaria: Tonight's Alpha Research exit poll shows that the centre-left BSP (S&D)-led list wins a plurality among voters aged 60+ years.

The new ITN party (*) performed weaker in this age group than in the general population. It won a plurality among the voters aged 18-31 years.

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#Bulgaria, Gallup International exit poll:

Share of women among the party's electorate

ISMV-EPP|G/EFA: 65%
DB-EPP|G/EFA: 57%
GERB-EPP: 53%
BSP-S&D: 53%
DPS-RE: 51%
VMRO-ECR: 47%
ITN-*: 42%

Note: Two newcomer lists, ISMV and ITN, were disproportionally supported by one gender.

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