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Voting abroad for the Bulgarian parliamentary election finishes

| updated on 10/28/24 8:37 AM
Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

At 05:00 am Bulgarian time on 28 October, Election Day abroad ended on the West Coast of the USA and Canada. There were 53 polling stations open in the US and 15 in Canada. 

According to Bulgaria's diplomatic and consular missions, all polling stations around the world have now successfully completed their work and submitted their results

With 97.22% of the tally sheets of the polling stations processed, 146,952 Bulgarians abroad have exercised their right to vote, Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry announced.

Bulgarian citizens had the opportunity to vote from the West Coast of the USA and Canada to Tokyo in Japan, Singapore and Auckland in New Zealand, from Tromsø in the north in Norway, to the Republic of South Africa. 

With the active assistance of the Foreign Ministry's staff and structures abroad and Bulgarian organizations abroad, Bulgarians were able to vote without difficulties in a total of 719 polling stations in 57 countries, with the largest number of them opened in Europe.


According to BNR's correspondent in Chicago Elena Tsaneva, 445 of Bulgarians living in the Chicago area voted at the polling station in Mount Prospect and 282 of them preferred the machine vote. The most votes were cast for Vazrazhdane party followed by "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" and in third place was the "Greatness" party.


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