Soon after voting closed in Bulgaria’s June 7 2009 European Parliament elections, two agencies said that based on exit polls, Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov’s Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria had taken about 25 per cent of the vote.
 
Agencies MBMD and Alfa Research gave Borissov’s party, commonly known by its Bulgarian abbreviation as GERB, 23 to 25 percent, and 25.5 per cent, respectively. This would translate into five seats.
 
In second place was the Bulgarian Socialist Party-dominated Coalition for Bulgaria, with 17 to 19 per cent, according to MBMD, or 19.7 per cent, Alfa Research said.
 
MBMD gave Ahmed Dogan’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the party led and supported in the main by Bulgarians of ethnic Turkish descent, 17 to 18 per cent, meaning three to four seats, Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalist party Ataka 10 to 11 per cent (two seats), the centre-right Blue Coalition eight to nine per cent (one seat) and said that with about 6.5 per cent, Simeon Saxe-Coburg’s National Movement for Stability and Progress could have won a seat, although this was also possible for the right-wing group LIDER or Yane Yanev’s right-wing party, Order Law and Justice.
 
Alfa said that its polls indicated 14.1 per cent for the MRF, 11.2 per cent for Ataka, 8.4 per cent for the Blue Coalition and the NMSP seven per cent.

Bulgarian news agency Focus quoted the National Centre for Public Opinion Research as saying that GERB would get five seats, the BSP's Coalition for Bulgaria four, the MRF three, Ataka two, the Blue Coalition two and Simeon Saxe-Coburg's NMSP one.

BBSS Gallup International said that GERB got 27 per cent (six seats), the Coalition for Bulgaria 20 per cent (three to four seats), MRF 14 per cent (three seats), Ataka 10 per cent (two seats), the Blue Coalition eight per cent (one to two seats), the NMSP seven per cent (one seat), LIDER six per cent and OLJ five per cent, which could give the latter two parties one seat each.

The Central Election Commission said that voter turnout was just less than 38 per cent.

Official announcements of European Parliament elections results are scheduled to be announced after 11pm Bulgarian time.