1930 Polish parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in
Controversy
The elections
The elections were supposed to take place in May, but the government invalidated the May results by disbanding the parliament in August
In addition, the minorities were also discriminated against;[7] the government crackdown on opposition was especially hard in the eastern provinces,[3][8] affecting the Blok Ukraińsko-Białoruski (Ukrainian-Belarusian Bloc) party.
On 24 November 1930, Time, in its coverage of the elections, wrote:
During the campaign which ended in Poland's general election last week, opposition papers were so mercilessly censored that some were reduced to printing pictures of
Friederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) with the caption: He Died Crazy. Because Dictator Jozef Pilsudski has publicly made such statements as that "Parliament is a prostitute!" (Time, July 9, 1928) and because he somewhat resembles Philosopher Nietzsche in face and whiskers, his government promptly confiscated all Nietzschean campaign pictures, all papers in which they appeared.[9]
Nonetheless despite the governments pressure, the opposition members (from Centrolew and
Results
Sejm
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government | 5,292,725 | 46.70 | 249 | +124 | |
Centrolew | 1,965,864 | 17.35 | 79 | – | |
National Party | 1,443,165 | 12.73 | 63 | +25 | |
Ukrainian Group | 725,984 | 6.41 | 21 | +4 | |
Jewish Group | 601,160 | 5.30 | 7 | +1 | |
Polish Catholic Bloc | 430,074 | 3.79 | 14 | –20 | |
Bloc of National Minorities | 309,713 | 2.73 | 5 | – | |
Polish Socialist Party – former Revolutionary Faction | 74,096 | 0.65 | 0 | – | |
Union of Left Socialists | 71,123 | 0.63 | 0 | – | |
Lista Ruska | 11,465 | 0.10 | 0 | –1 | |
Monarchists | 1,816 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
Unity of Workers and Peasants | 40,373 | 0.36 | 4 | 0 | |
Socialists' Bloc | 30,835 | 0.27 | 1 | – | |
ZLCh Sampomoc | 335,402 | 2.96 | 1 | – | |
Local lists | 0 | – | |||
Total | 11,333,795 | 100.00 | 444 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 11,333,795 | 95.92 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 482,618 | 4.08 | |||
Total votes | 11,816,413 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 15,791,278 | 74.83 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
Senate
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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German Minority | 236,471 | 3.48 | 3 | –18 | |
Polish Catholic Bloc | 160,444 | 2.36 | 2 | –4 | |
Others | 111,501 | 1.64 | 0 | – | |
Total | 6,797,188 | 100.00 | 111 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 6,797,188 | 98.36 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 113,403 | 1.64 | |||
Total votes | 6,910,591 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 10,894,325 | 63.43 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
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- ^ "POLAND: Nietzschean Election". Time. 1930-11-24. Archived from the original on April 12, 2005. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
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