Social Democracy of Poland

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The Social Democracy of Poland (Polish: Socjaldemokracja Polska, SDPL) is a social-democratic^[1][2] political party in Poland.

Foundation

The party was founded in April 2004 as a splinter group from the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD). The SDPL should not be confused with a former party the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland (SdRP) which existed between 1990–99 and was a direct predecessor of the SLD.

First elections

SDPL contested its first elections in June 2004, this being for Polish representation to the

On 3 September 2006, SDPL joined the newly formed Left and Democrats (LiD) coalition, made up of the centre-left parties SDPL, SLD, UP and the centrist Democratic Party – demokraci.pl. This alliance was created with a view to jointly contest the upcoming local government elections. The LiD alliance was maintained for the Polish parliamentary elections of October 2007, and LiD achieved 13.2% of the vote. This translated into 53 lower house seats, 10 of which were won by SDPL.

After LiD dissolved, 8 out of 10 SDPL MPs formed a new parliamentary caucus called Social Democracy of Poland – New Left (Socjaldemoracja Polska – Nowa Lewica, SDPL-NL).

On 3 February 2013, SDPL leader

Election results

Sejm

Election year	# of votes	% of vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Government
2005	459,380	3.9 (#7)	0 / 460	32[6]	Extra-parliamentary
	In an Greens 2004 .
2007	2,122,981	13.2 (#3)	10 / 460	10	Opposition
	As part of the Left and Democrats coalition, which won 53 seats in total.
2011	5,629,773	39.2 (#1)	0 / 460	10	Extra-parliamentary
	In coalition with Civic Platform.
2015	1,147,102	7.6 (#5)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary
	As part of United Left, which won no seat.
2019	5,060,355	27.4 (#2)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary
	As part of Civic Coalition, which won 134 seats in total.
2023	1,859,018	8.6 (#4)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary
	As part of The Left, which won 26 seats in total.

Senate

Election year	# of overall seats won	+/–
2005	0 / 100	10[7]
2007	0 / 100
2011	2 / 100	1
2015	1 / 100

Presidential

Election year	Candidate	1st round		2nd round
		# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall votes	% of overall vote
2005	Marek Borowski	1,544,642	10.3 (#4)

European Parliament

Election year	# of votes	% of vote	# of overall seats won	+/–
2004	324,707	5.3 (#8)	3 / 54	3
2009	179,602	2.4 (#5)	0 / 50	3
As part of the Agreement for the Future – CenterLeft coalition.

Elected representatives

Members of the Sejm

Prior to the October, 2011, Polish parliamentary election, where the party's representation was wiped out, SDPL had three members of the Sejm:

• 19 – Warsaw I
  )
• 4 – Bydgoszcz
  )
• 6 – Lublin
  )

Marek Borowski, was elected to the Polish Senate in the 2011 elections as an independent candidate. He retained his membership of SDPL.

References

External links

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• Official website