Bulgaria goes to the polls in mayoral and municipal elections on October 27 2019. In places where mayoral elections are not decisive, a second round will be held on November 3.
Elections are being held in all 265 municipalities in Bulgaria’s 28 districts.
In all, a total of 6 227 901 people are eligible to vote, including adult Bulgarian citizens and citizens of other European Union countries resident in Bulgaria, in the latter case only if they registered to vote ahead of the September 16 deadline.
Across the country, there are 36 288 candidates. A total of 1254 are candidate municipal mayors, 5059 are candidate mayoralty mayors, and 460 are candidate district mayors. There are 29 515 candidate municipal councillors.
The largest number of candidate mayors is in Sofia, 19, followed by Plovdiv, 14.
In 397 mayoralties, there is only one candidate mayor.
Why the overall outcome of the 2019 Bulgaria’s local elections, even a few days before October 27, was still unpredictable.
Political analysis by Plamen Asenov.
