The people of Burgas, the second-largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, gave an overwhelming support to their incumbent mayor Dimitar Nikolov, who won a second term with nearly 70% of the votes.
The incumbent Mayor of Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna Kiril Yordanov failed to get reelected for a fourth term at the first round in Sunday's local elections.
Yordanka Fandakova, the candidate of Bulgaria's ruling party GERB and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, has been reelected as mayor of the capital by a wide margin, exit poll results show.
Sofia incumbent mayor Yordanka Fandakova, candidate of the ruling GERB party, won a second term on October 23.
Ivaylo Kalfin, PES MEP and Bulgaria's Foreign Affairs Minister in the last, socialist led coalition cabinet (2005-9) was nominated to run for president by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party.
Rosen Plevneliev, Regional Development Minister in the Borisov Cabinet, has been nominated by the ruling party GERB to run for President in the October 23, 2011, elections.
Bulgaria's former construction minister Rosen Plevneliev, member of the governing center-right party of PM Boyko Borisov, emerged as the leader in the country's presidential elections on Sunday, but failed to win outright and avoid a runoff in a week
Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov has engaged in questionable behavior vis-a-vis requirements in Bulgarian electoral legislation prohibiting electioneering and announcing results during election day.
Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov has voted just minutes before the official 7pm closing of the voting day in Bulgaria's presidential and municipal elections Sunday.
An unusually high turnout and cumbersome procedure have seen Bulgarian voters wait for up to an hour to cast their vote in Sunday's presidential and local elections.
Bulgaria is set for a deep change in its political history, stated Movement for Rights and Freedoms party leader Ahmed Dogan after casting his vote in Sofia for Bulgaria's presidential and local elections Sunday.
Almost a quarter of Bulgarian voters have cast their vote by 1 pm EET at the Sunday presidential and municipal elections in the country.
Meglena Kuneva, Bulgaria's former EU Commissioner and currently a non-partisan presidential candidate, cast her vote on Sunday, declaring she hoped for a high voter turnout.
Rumen Hristov, the presidential candidate endorsed by the right-wing Bulgarian Blue Coalition, cast his vote in Sofia on Sunday, saying he hoped for a voter turnout of least 50%.
Georgi Parvanov, Bulgaria's current president, who is to end his second and last term in January, voted in the country's presidential elections on Sunday.
Polling sections for Bulgaria's Presidential elections in New Zealand and Australia have closed, the Central Election Committee (CEC) reported.
Yordanka Fandakova, the incumbent mayor of Bulgaria's capital Sofia who is running for a second term, cast her vote on Sunday together with her husband and son.
Volen Siderov, a controversial Bulgarian far-right presidential candidate, cast his vote on Sunday in Sofia, expressing his worries that massive forgeries could be carried out by the ruling centrist-right GERB.
Ivaylo Kalfin, the presidential candidate endorsed by the left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, voted in Sunday's elections in Sofia.
Rosen Plevneliev, the ruling Bulgarian centrist-right GERB's presidential runner, cast his vote "for modern Bulgaria" in Sofia early on Sunday.
Ivan Kostov, former Bulgarian PM (1997-2001) and current co-leader of the right-wing Blue Coalition, voted in the country's presidential and local elections on Sunday.
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