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20th MMC – Silistra

Bulgarian constituency

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ4630780 ↗
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The 20th Multi-member Constituency – Silistra is a constituency whose borders are the same as Silistra Province in Bulgaria.

Background

In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 20th Multi-member Constituency – Silistra elected 5 members to the Bulgarian National Assembly: 4 of which were by proportionality vote and 1 was by first-past-the-post voting.

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The public source identifies “20th MMC – Silistra” as bulgarian constituency. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around 20th, Silistra and Bulgarian.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with 20th, Silistra and Bulgarian providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4630780. Authority coordinates are 43.917, 27.167. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “20th MMC – Silistra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.