2013–2026 · 9 elections · BGR
SAGE has legislative and presidential election results for Bulgaria from 9 elections between 2013 and 2026: 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The smallest unit is the polling station. The 2026 election has 12,721 polling stations, and 94% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.
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Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.
| Year | Election type | Vote type | Round | Units | % located | Votes | Polygons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Legislative (unicameral) | 11,902 | 73% | 3,540,559 | yes | [map] | ||
| 2014 | Legislative (unicameral) | 12,177 | 72% | 3,283,165 | yes | [map] | ||
| 2016 | Presidential | First Round | 1 | 12,340 | 88% | 3,613,556 | yes | [map] |
| Presidential | Second Round | 2 | 12,340 | 88% | 3,319,517 | yes | ||
| 2017 | Legislative (unicameral) | 12,441 | 89% | 3,420,524 | yes | [map] | ||
| 2021 | Legislative (unicameral) | 14,820 | 82% | 8,554,176 | yes | [map] | ||
| Presidential | First Round | 1 | 13,238 | 91% | 2,615,149 | yes | ||
| Presidential | Second Round | 2 | 13,234 | 91% | 2,273,441 | yes | ||
| 2022 | Legislative (unicameral) | 12,932 | 92% | 2,505,271 | yes | [map] | ||
| 2023 | Legislative (unicameral) | 12,916 | 92% | 2,529,129 | yes | [map] | ||
| 2024 | Legislative (unicameral) | 25,762 | 92% | 4,584,191 | yes | [map] | ||
| 2026 | Legislative (unicameral) | 12,721 | 94% | 3,240,156 | yes | [map] |
csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries
for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet.
rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.
All years: [csv 43 MB] [gpkg 8.4 MB] [parquet 19 MB] [rds 28 MB] [codebook 838 KB]
In R or Python:
R: install.packages("sage")
sage::sage_load("Bulgaria", years = 2026)
Python: import sage
sage.sage_load("Bulgaria", years=[2026])
Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse
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