The election campaign was accompanied by multiple scandals about vote-buying, voting tourists and arrests.

After the first round, members of election officials were kept 48 hours locked in the election authority counting center at Arena Aremeec Hall.

[1][2] GERB, the ruling party won 34.5% of the vote and their incumbent mayors were reelected in Sofia, Burgas, Varna, Veliko Tarnov, Stara Zagora, Blagoevgrad and Haskovo.

The smaller parties from the opposition, the Reformist Block, ABV and the Patriot Front, got respectively 9%, 4.3% and 5.2%.

[3] The turnout of the first round was 53.6% which was 5% higher than 2011 local elections.