Order of parties and coalitions on the ballots for October 29 local elections was determined by draw

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC) on September 27 held a draw to determine the order in which the parties and coalitions running in the October 29 local elections will appear on the ballots.

The draw was public and can be attended by representatives of the parties, coalitions, candidates nominated by them, observers and representatives of the media.

Fifty-eight parties and nine coalitions will be running in the elections.

The order and the names of the parties and coalitions are as follows, with the number for each on the ballot:

1. BSP for Bulgaria coalition

2. Agrarian National Union

3. European Middle Class

4. VMRO - Bulgarian National Union

5. Bulgarian Union for Direct Democracy

6. National Movement for Surge and Stability

7. GERB

8. Social Democrats Political Movement

9. United for Plovdiv coalition

10. Bulgarian Democratic Union Radicals

11. SBOR - Just Bulgaria United Patriots

12. Bulgarian Voice

13. Together for Strong Municipality coalition

14. Citizens for the Municipality coalition

15. Bulgaria for the Citizens Movement

16. Direct Democracy

17. Pravoto (The Law)

18. Bulgarian Social Democrats

19. Bulgarian Democratic Forum

20. Bulgarian Surge

21. There Is Such a People

22. Conservative Alliance of the Right - KOD

23. Bulgarian Agrarian National Union

24. Alternative of the Citizens coalition

25. Union of Democratic Forces

26. Greens Party

27. Unity National Movement

28. The Left! coalition

29. Development for Septemvri and the Region

30. Here We Come

31. Union for Plovdiv

32. United Agrarians

33. Gergyovden Movement

34. Movement for Prosperity of Pernik

35. Future for the Motherland

36. Bulgarian Progressive Line

37. Bulgarian Social-democratic Party

38. Society for New Bulgaria

39. Euro Roma

40. More

41. United Labour Block Bulgarian Labour

42. Vazrazhdane

43. Social Democratic Party

44. Union of Free Democrats

45. Bulgaria of the Regions coalition

46. Conservative Bulgaria Party

47. Bulgarian Social Democracy - Euroleft

48. Ataka

49. Svoboda (Freedom)

50. Union of Patriotic Forces Zashtita (Defence)

51. Alexander Stamboliiski Agrarian Union

52. Bulgarian New Democracy

53. Bulgarski Pat Socialist Party

54. Ahead Bulgaria Movement

55. Our City Movement

56. Save Sofia

57. Movement for Rights and Freedoms

58. New Time

59. Volya

60. National Movement for Rights and Freedoms

61. Neutral Bulgaria coalition (including Communist Party of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party, Party of Bulgarian Communists, New Force, Russophiles for Revival of the Motherland)

62. Movement for Democratic Impact - DZ

63. Mir

64. People's Voice

65. Order, Law and Justice

66. We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria coalition

67. Velichie

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Bulgaria is to hold municipal and mayoral elections on October 29, 2023 as per the decree signed by President Rumen Radev. Bulgaria holds municipal elections every four years, with the previous local elections having been held on October 27 2019. A second round of mayoral elections was held a week later, on November 3, in municipalities where no candidate achieved the threshold for a victory in the first-round.