1991 Polish parliamentary election
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| Turnout | 43.20% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 27 October 1991 to elect deputies to both houses of the
voting thresholds within individual constituencies, along with a five percent national threshold allocated to a small portion of the Sejm, additionally contributed to party fragmentation.[3] As a result, 29 political parties gained entry into the Sejm and 22 in the Senate, with no party holding a decisive majority. Two months of intense coalition negotiations followed, with Jan Olszewski of the Centre Agreement forming a minority government along with the Christian National Union, remnants of the broader Centre Civic Alliance, and the Peasants' Agreement, with conditional support from Polish People's Party, Solidarity list and other minor parties.[4]
460 members of parliament (poseł) were elected; 391 from 6980 candidates from 37 regional lists of candidates and 69 from country-wide lists of candidates. In the
Senate
elections, 43.2% of citizens cast their votes, 96.5% were valid.
Elections were supervised by the National Electoral Commission (Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza). 37 regional (okręgowe) commissions were formed, and 22,341 district (obwodowe), staffed by 197,389 citizens.
A remarkable 111 parties competed and 29 parties (listed below) won parliamentary seats. The success of the satirical Polish Beer-Lovers' Party with 16 seats gained news coverage worldwide.
Results
Sejm
By constituency
| No. | Constituency | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UD | SLD | WAK | PSL | KPN
|
POC | KLD | PL | KO "S" | PPPP | KWMN | Others | |||
| 1 | Warsaw I | 17 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 2 | Warsaw II | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| 3 | Płock | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 4 | Łódź | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 5 | Piotrków Trybunalski | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 6 | Konin | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 7 | Radom | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 8 | Kielce | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 9 | Częstochowa | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 10 | Opole | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 11 | Wroclaw | 12 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 12 | Wałbrzych | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 13 | Jelenia Góra | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 14 | Zielona Góra | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 15 | Kalisz | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 16 | Toruń | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 17 | Bydgoszcz | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 18 | Poznań | 14 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 19 | Gorzów Wielkopolski | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 20 | Szczecin | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 21 | Koszalin | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| 22 | Gdańsk | 15 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 23 | Olsztyn | 13 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 24 | Ostrołęka | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 25 | Białystok | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 26 | Siedlce | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| 27 | Zamość | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 28 | Lublin | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 29 | Rzeszów | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 30 | Przemyśl | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 31 | Tarnów | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 32 | Nowy Sącz | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 33 | Kraków | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 34 | Bielsko-Biała | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 35 | Sosnowiec | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 36 | Katowice | 17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 37 | Gliwice | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| National list | 69 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Total | 460 | 62 | 60 | 49 | 48 | 46 | 44 | 37 | 28 | 27 | 16 | 7 | 36 | |
| Source: National Electoral Commission | ||||||||||||||
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Voivodeships with winning majority. -
Results of the Sejm election, showing vote strength by electoral district.
Senate
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Union | 3,764,156 | 16.42 | 21 | |
| Democratic Left Alliance | 2,431,178 | 10.61 | 4 | |
| Solidarity | 2,219,160 | 9.68 | 11 | |
| Centre Civic Alliance | 2,071,045 | 9.04 | 9 | |
| Catholic Electoral Action | 1,995,866 | 8.71 | 9 | |
| Polish People's Party | 1,691,566 | 7.38 | 7 | |
| Liberal Democratic Congress | 1,497,718 | 6.53 | 6 | |
| Confederation of Independent Poland | 1,071,364 | 4.67 | 4 | |
| Peasants' Agreement | 719,778 | 3.14 | 5 | |
| Party of Christian Democrats | 507,722 | 2.22 | 3 | |
| Democratic Party | 453,721 | 1.98 | 0 | |
| Party X | 417,857 | 1.82 | 0 | |
| Real Politics Union | 371,891 | 1.62 | 0 | |
| Local lists and independents | 3,708,344 | 16.18 | 21 | |
| Total | 22,921,366 | 100.00 | 100 | |
| Valid votes | 11,474,846 | 96.53 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 413,019 | 3.47 | ||
| Total votes | 11,887,865 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 27,517,280 | 43.20 | ||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | ||||
By voivodeship
| Voivodeship | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UD | KO "S" | POC | WAK | PSL | KLD | PL | SLD | KPN
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PChD | Others | ||
| Biała Podlaska | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Białystok | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Bielsko | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Bydgoszcz | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Chełm | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ciechanów | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Częstochowa | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Elbląg | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Gdańsk | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Gorzów | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Jelenia Góra | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kalisz | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Katowice | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kielce | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Konin | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Koszalin | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kraków | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Krosno | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Legnica | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Leszno | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Lublin | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Łomża | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Łódź | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Nowy Sącz | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Olsztyn | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Opole | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ostrołęka | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Piła | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Piotrków | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Płock | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Poznań | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Przemyśl | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Radom | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Rzeszów | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Siedlce | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Sieradz | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Skierniewice | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Słupsk | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Suwałki | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Szczecin | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Tarnobrzeg | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Tarnów | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Toruń | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Wałbrzych | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Warsaw | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Włocławek | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Wrocław | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Zamość | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Zielona Góra | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 100 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 |
| Source: National Electoral Commission | ||||||||||||
Notes
- ^ a b Regional electoral list of the Polish People's Party in Tarnów Voivodeship.[5]
- ^ Regional electoral list of the Catholic Electoral Action in Kraków Voivodeship.[5]
- ^ Regional electoral list of the Confederation of Independent Poland in Kraków Voivodeship.[5]
- ^ Regional electoral list of the Polish People's Party in Bydgoszcz Voivodeship.[5]
- ^ Regional electoral list of the Confederation of Independent Poland in Kraków Voivodeship.[5]
References
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