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Ilia Lazarov

European People's Party (EPP) · SDS

86%participation, 313 of 364 votesMedian: EPP 90% · Bulgaria 84% · all MEPs 89%
88%of votes matched the position of EPP
91%of For and Against votes on the winning side
39votes off the group line, of 313 comparable

Details

How they were elected

Seat
Took up the seat in place of Rosen Dimitrov Zhelyazkov
List
Grazhdani za evropeysko razvitie na Balgariya - Sayuz na demokratichnite sili (GERB - SDS)474,059 votes, 23.6%, 5 seats
Position on the list
6
Personal votes
6,3451.3% of the list's votes
Electoral rule
In Bulgaria, personal votes for candidates decide, fully or in part, which of a list's candidates win its seats.

List share and seats: European Parliament, 2024 European election results (results.elections.europa.eu).1 points. List votes, position on the list and personal votes: Central Election Commission of Bulgaria (CIK, https://results.cik.bg/ep2024), decisions 3461-EP and 3466-EP, collected on 13 October 2026. Shares of the list's votes calculated by Parliament Radar.

Where the votes came from

Where the Grazhdani za evropeysko razvitie na Balgariya - Sayuz na demokratichnite sili (GERB - SDS) list won votes in the 2024 European election

The map shows the share of valid votes won by this list in each of the 265 municipalities: 468,230 votes, 24.7% of valid votes. The 5,829 votes cast abroad have no municipality and are not on the map.

3.5% to 17.9%17.9% to 24.3%24.3% to 28.5%28.5% to 36.4%36.4% to 72.1%% of valid votes

Strongest areas (at least 1,000 valid votes)

  • DospatSmolyan72.1% · 2,254
  • Dolna banyaSofia67.9% · 1,270
  • SimitliBlagoevgrad64.1% · 3,701
  • LyubimetsHaskovo61.6% · 1,974
  • UgarchinLovech57.5% · 967

Results by municipality: BLUE_EP (Hublet, F. (2024). BLUE_EP: A Dataset of Municipality-Level Results of European Parliament Elections. Codebook v1. Paris: Groupe d'études géopolitiques. 10.5281/zenodo.14569325, CC BY 4.0), compiled from the official results. Boundaries: Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Agency (AGKK), Bulgaria, INSPIRE Administrative units, downloaded 12/10/2026; reused as high-value data under Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/138/oj); simplified.

How Ilia Lazarov voted

Most recent first

Source: European Parliament roll-call votes, via HowTheyVote (ODbL). Collected 8 November 2026.

Off the group line

39 of 313 comparable votes

Votes in 2026

For 257Abstain 13Against 43Did not vote 51

Alignment with each group

Share of Ilia Lazarov's votes that matched each group's position

EPPown group88%
S&D80%
PfE48%
ECR71%
Renew82%
Greens/EFA70%
The Left46%
ESN35%

In Parliament

Country
Bulgaria
Group
European People's Party (EPP)
National party
SDS

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Method

Participation: Share of the votes the Radar follows (HowTheyVote main votes and final roll-call votes) in which the MEP voted. Not attendance; excused absences are not counted. Winning side: Of the For and Against votes, the share on the side of the result: For when adopted, Against when rejected. Abstentions and absences are left out. Off the group line: a vote different from the position of the MEP's own group on that day; divided groups and non-attached members are left out. Full method