Contesting parties
18 MEPs were appointed by Bulgaria to serve as observers in the Parliament before the country joined in 2007. Since then up until the election, the observers served as full MEPs. The breakdown of parties and their European groupings was as follows:

Pre-election situation
The official results were announced by the Central Electoral Commission on 21 May. According to the official data, the winner of the elections was Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, followed by a small margin by the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, with the distance between the third and the first being less than 1.5%. The voter turnout was 28.6%.[5]

Elected MEPs

Elections in Bulgaria
Elections in the European Union
European Parliament election, 2007
European Parliament election, 2007 (Romania)