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The GERB party won 39,71% of the votes for the 41st National Assembly after 100% of the electoral protocols have been counted.
This was announced by the Central Electoral Commission spokesman, Biser Troyanov.
More than 1,62 million people have casted their vote for GERB, whose leader is Sofia Mayor, Boyko Borisov.
Coalition for Bulgaria, which includes the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) , has won 17,7%, or over 728 440 votes.
The ethnic Turkish party DPS, which is also part of the ruling three-way coalition, has 14,46% of the votes.
9,36% give the nationalist Ataka party the fourth place, followed by the rightist Blue Coalition with 6,76%.
The RZS party is barely passing the threshold with a little over 4,13% of the votes, but there are still protocols from abroad to be counted.
Those who could not pass the 4% threshold are the Lider party with 3,23%, and the member of the three-way ruling coalition, NMSP, won 3,01%.
The rest of the parties that ran in the elections had less than 1%.
The ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) has gathered 63.18% of the votes coming from abroad after 94,89% vote count.
GERB has 20,76% (30 880 votes), followed by the Blue Coalition with 5,17% (7684 votes).
After 100% vote count of the protocols for the majority elections, GERB wins 26 candidates, and DPS has the other 5.
DPS majority representatives will be Ahmed Dogan, from the Kardzhali region, Kasim Dal for Targovishte, Dr Hasan Ademov in Razgrad, Mithat Tabakov (Silistra), and Georgi Kolev (Shumen).
The 26 majority representative for GERB are as follows: Lyuben Tatarski (Blagoevgrad), Bozhidar Dimitrov (Burgas), Krasimir Petrov (Varna), Tsvetan Tsvetanov (Veliko Tarnovo), Lyubomila Snislavova (Vidin), Nikolay Kotsev (Vratsa), Galina Bankovska (Gabrovo), Rumen Ivanov (Dobrich), Valentin Mikev (Kyustendil), Anatolii Yordanov (Lovech), Plamen Tsekov (Montana), Ivan Ivanov (Pazardzhik), Irena Sokolov (Pernik), Tsetska Dangovska (Pleven), Menda Stoyanova (Plovdiv-city), Dimitar Lazarov (Plovdiv-district), Plamen Nunev (Ruse), Desislava Taneva (Sliven), Daniela Prodanova (Smolyan), in the three regions of Sofia city - Boris Grozdanov, Monika Manayotova, Krasimir Velchev, Emil Dimitrov (Sofia district), Ivan Kolev (Stara Zagora), Delyan Dobrev (Haskovo), and Anastas Anastasov (Yambol).
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