Bulgaria
○ Presidential Election
- Seat: 1
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· Parliamentary
- Seats: 240
- Term of office: 4 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 12,500
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 7 am and 8 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 6,949,938 (2021 elections)
· Voter turnout: 38.63% (2021 presidential election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: direct popular vote, two-round system
- Parliamentary
1. 31 members elected using first-past-the-post voting system
2. 209 elected under proportional representation
3. closed party system
· Voting process: Receive Ballots -> Mark Ballots -> Cast Ballots
· Counting process
1. Declare the end of voting.
2. Count and packed separately the unused and mismarked ballot papers
3. Election commission reports the results of the machine voting in the polling station
4. Election commission determines the voting results both from the paper ballots and the machine voting and records the said results in a tally sheet.
· Time to take to announce voting results in the country: 7 days after election day