1971 Bulgarian constitutional referendum

A constitutional referendum was held in Bulgaria on 16 May 1971.[1] Voters were asked whether they approved of a new constitution (known as the Zhivkov Constitution). The new constitution definited Bulgaria as a "socialist state of the working people from the cities and the villages", led by the Bulgarian Communist Party in cooperation with the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union. The result was reportedly 99.7% in favour, with a voter turnout of 99.7%.[2]

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Results
Choice Votes %
For6,135,21899.7
Against15,4770.3
Invalid/blank votes5,533–
Total6,156,228100
Registered voters/turnout6,174,63599.7
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
gollark: You fractionally get 1 million and fractionally die.
gollark: Well, it's good if 1e6/n - (equivalent monetary cost of dying)/n > 0. Multiply both sides by n and it's trivial.
gollark: 1e6 = 1 million.
gollark: The expected value is 1e6/n - (equivalent monetary cost of dying)/n. So whether it is a good choice depends on whether (equivalent monetary cost of dying is greater than 1e6 euros, which is no.
gollark: I mean, the compress CLI thing, it works fine apart from that.

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p368 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p375
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