Bulgaria
National Assembly
Data on women
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Basic information > About parliament
Speaker
Speaker
Nikola
Minchev
(Male)
Year of birth
1987
Additional information
Elected on 3 Dec. 2021.
Secretary general
Secretary General
Gabriela
Kilfanova
(Female)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Appointed on 19 April 2021.
Members
Current number of members, by sex
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Age
Average age of all members
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Sasho Savov (Male)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
79
Oldest member
Mika Zaykova (Female)
Total number of MPs, 45 years of age or younger
Total number of MPs, 46 years of age or older
Total per sex
Total of male
Total of female
Total per age interval
18-20
0
21-30
31-40
41-45
46-50
51-60
61-70
81-90
0
91 and over
0
Number of members, by age
18 - 20 | 21 - 30 | 31 - 40 | 41 - 45 | 46 - 50 | 51 - 60 | 61 - 70 | 71 - 80 | 81 - 90 | 91 and over | Totals per gender | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Totals per age interval | 0 | 11 | 67 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Total <= 45: 124 | Total >= 46: 116 | ||||||||||
Male | 0 | 7 | 54 | 35 | 32 | 36 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 186 |
Female | 0 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 |
Reserved seats and quotas
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Notes
The different political parties promote the rising number of women candidates in the election
Elections > Election results
Results
Members elected, by sex
Number of men elected
183
Number of women elected
57
Percentage of women elected
The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of women elected in the election and the number of seats at stake at the election.
23.75%
Number of women after election or renewal, by mode of designation
Women Directly Elected
57
New legislature
Total number of men after the election
The total number of male parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
183
Total number of women after the election
The total number of female parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
57
First Speaker of the new legislature
First Speaker of the new legislature
First name of the Speaker of the new legislature following the election or renewal.
Nikola
Minchev
(Male)
Political party
We Continue the Change
Date of election
03.12.2021
Elections > Historical data on women
Women's suffrage
First woman in parliament
First woman in parliament
Year in which first woman entered parliament
1945
First woman speaker
Year of first woman speaker
Date at which, for the first time in the country's parliamentary history, a woman became Presiding Officer of Parliament or of one of its Houses.
2009