2011 Polish parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 9 October 2011. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The ruling Civic Platform (PO) won a plurality of seats and Tusk became the first Polish prime minister to be appointed for a second consecutive term since the fall of communism. Both the Civic Platform and its junior partner, the Polish People's Party (PSL), agreed to continue their governing coalition after the election.

2011 Polish parliamentary election

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All 460 seats in the Sejm
231 seats needed for a majority
Turnout48.92%
  First party Second party Third party
 
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Leader Donald Tusk Jarosław Kaczyński Janusz Palikot
Party PO PiS RP
Last election 209 seats, 41.5% 166 seats, 32.1% Did not exist
Seats won 207 157 40
Seat change Decrease 2 Decrease 9 New
Popular vote 5,629,773 4,295,016 1,439,490
Percentage 39.2% 29.9% 10.0%
Swing Decrease 2.3pp Decrease 2.2pp New party

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Waldemar Pawlak Grzegorz Napieralski Ryszard Galla
Party PSL SLD KWMN
Last election 31 seats, 8.9% 53 seats, 13.2% 1 seat, 0.2%
Seats won 28 27 1
Seat change Decrease 3 Decrease 26 Steady 0
Popular vote 1,201,628 1,184,303 28,014
Percentage 8.4% 8.2% 0.2%
Swing Decrease 0.5pp Decrease 5.0pp Steady 0

Seats won by Sejm District

Government before election

First Tusk cabinet
POPSL

Elected Government

Second Tusk cabinet
POPSL

Electoral system

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The election was for all 460 seats of the Sejm and all 100 seats of the Senate. Candidates for Deputies are nominated either by the electoral committees of the various political parties and or by individual voter committees.[1] The process of election for the Sejm is through party-list proportional representation via the D'hondt method in multi-seat constituencies (41 in total),[2] with a 5% threshold for single parties and 8% threshold for coalitions (requirements waived for national minorities).[3]

The election was the first one to take place under a new Election Code which altered the electoral system in the Senate election from a plurality block voting to the first-past-the-post voting, with one member to be returned in each of the 100 single member constituencies.[4][better source needed]

There were 25,993 precincts for 30,512,850 voters.[5]

 
Senate constituencies.

Election date

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The date of the election, October 9, was set by the President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski,[6] and announced on 4 July. The latest possible date for the election to be held was 30 October 2011,[6] four years after the previous election. Prior to the announcement of the election date, the most likely dates were thought to be 16 October or 23 October.[7]

Although the governing coalition had a strong majority, it was suggested that the elections be brought forward to the spring,[8] to avoid the campaign interrupting Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of the year. The idea was supported by the Democratic Left Alliance and Poland Comes First, but firmly opposed by Law and Justice.[9] The Civic Platform favoured an election date of 23 October.[10] Since the State Electoral Commission decided that 30 October falls too close to the national holiday of All Saints' Day,[11] and elections are always held on Sundays, 23 October was the latest possible date to hold the election. In the end, Komorowski decided on 9 October.[citation needed]

The idea of holding the election over two days instead of the usual one, to increase turnout, was raised.[10] An election over two days would have cost 130–140 million złoty, compared to 90 million for a one-day election.[11] The single day election option prevailed.

Parties

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Civic Platform (PO), the largest governing party under prime minister Donald Tusk, was seeking reelection. Opinion polls over the past four years had fairly consistently shown the PO to have the largest level of popular support among Poland's political parties. PO was seeking either to win majority government in its own right, or to continue its coalition with the smaller Polish People's Party (PSL). During the election campaign, prime minister Donald Tusk ruled out the possibility of a coalition with either Law and Justice or Palikot's Movement.

Law and Justice Law and Justice (PiS), is Poland's second largest party as of 2007, and was the leading party of government from 2005–2007. PiS's greatest difficulty this election, was not only that it trailed PO in popular support, but that even if it were to outpoll the PO, it might have had difficulty in finding other parties willing to enter into a coalition with it. Jarosław Kaczyński had publicly denied the possibility of allying his party with the post-communist SLD and relations with the PSL (traditionally viewed by the media as an opportunist coalition partner, ready to form a coalition with everyone) were tense. This tension was exacerbated following PiS's spokesperson Adam Hofman's statement during the election campaign, in which he attacked PSL members in an abusive manner following the airing of the People's Party newest electoral TV ad.

Democratic Left Alliance Poland's strongest left-wing party, the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) had struggled since 2005 to regain its position as one of the countries two largest parties. The SLD indicated its potential interest in being a coalition partner with PO following the election.

Polish People's Party The Polish People's Party (PSL) is an agrarian-rooted party. It was the minority partner in a coalition government with PO.[12] Although some opinion polls showed popular support for PSL to be dangerously close to the 5% electoral threshold, in the past PSL generally performed a little better than opinion polls indicated. It is widely seen as a coalition partner for every party that happens to need such.

Palikot's Movement Palikot's Movement (Ruch Palikota), officially the Movement of Support (Ruch Poparcia, RP), is a breakaway faction of the PO that followed MP Janusz Palikot after he had been expelled from the party for his "scandalous" remarks on late President Lech Kaczyński. The RP is distinctive on Poland's political scene in that it is the first party in the country's history that puts strong emphasis on its program's anticlerical features (the usual practice being that parties either try to win the Church's unofficial support or at least do not try to appear anti-Church) along with appeals for putting an end to the anti-abortion policy and introducing civil unions for same-sex couples. In terms of economy, the RP blends leftist[dubiousdiscuss] and rightist ideas.

Poland Comes First A new party on the Polish political scene, Poland Comes First (PJN), emerged as a splinter group from PiS, following the 2010 Polish presidential election. PJN's future parliamentary representation was uncertain, given that most opinion polls showed support levels for PJN to be below the 5% electoral threshold. The party had suffered an almost constant internal crisis since its very foundation that led many of its MPs to leave it for the other parties in Parliament, including the most famous one, chairwoman Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska, who joined the PO. Commentators argue that the PJN failed to establish itself as a real alternative on the political scene, being widely perceived as nothing but a milder variant of the party it had once left.

Other parties The only other party contesting all 41 electoral districts for the Sejm in 2011, was the Polish Labour Party (PPP). The remaining parties include Congress of the New Right (KNP) (21 districts), Right of the Republic (PR) (20 districts), Our Homeland Poland (NDP) (9 districts) and German Minority group (MN) (1 district). With the exception of the German Minority group (which as an ethnic minority party is exempt from the 5% election threshold requirement), these parties were not expected to poll the required 5% to enter the Sejm. Some other minor parties, had decided not to contest the elections independently, opting instead to negotiate a place for their candidates on the electoral lists of the larger parties. This strategy had worked for some minor parties in past elections, and seen them get some of their candidates elected in this way.[13]

Campaign

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Tusk campaigned on a platform that drew on the record of its economic success during the previous government. He also said that he would pursue a "steady rapprochement" with Russia, in spite of prior rows over missile defence, gas pipelines and the inquiry into the plane crash that killed Poland's former president in 2010. Conversely the Law and Justice Party had been distrustful of Russia and Germany.[12]

Monitors

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Various delegations from the electoral boards and of political party representatives from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, due to hold their own free elections in the coming months, monitored the election in Warsaw, Radom and Płock at the invitations of the Foreign Ministry, as Deputy Foreign Minister Krzysztof Stanowski said that "I hope the climax of our help comes when [the countries’ policymakers] begin discussing the constitution, reforms in economy and local government." Rania Mbarki, from a local election commission in Tunis, said that "it's obligatory to stand in the voting booth before putting pen to paper. Here, the ballot papers are marked on tables with families around. There is a discussion. In our country it's confidential, we can't say what we have chosen, you can't show what you have chosen, so this is different for us;" while Mounira Belghouthi, from a local election board in Kairouan, added that the advanced voting machines were more technologically advanced than in Tunisia and they sought to get an idea its usage.[11]

Opinion polls

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Opinion polls in the Polish parliamentary election, 2011 were first recorded on 16 May 2010 and culminated before election day on 9 October. The two largest parties, Civic Platform and the Law and Justice Party, reported significant declines in favourability; however, the former's breakaway Palikot Movement recorded a stellar rise, with little changes for the others.

Results

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Powiats won by:
– Civic Platform
– Law and Justice
– Polish People's Party
– Democratic Left Alliance
 
Sejm election result
 
Senate election result by constituency.

With all votes counted, voter turnout was 48.92%. In the Sejm, Poznań recorded the highest turnout of 60.2% and Elbląg recorded the lowest turnout with 41.24%. The valid votes were 95.48% of the ballots. In the Senate, voter turnout was 48.92% with one of Warszawa I's seats recording the highest turnout of 73.61% and Opole recording the lowest turnout with 38.1%. The valid votes were 96.57% of the ballots.[14]

The Civic Platform party won a plurality with 207 seats in the Sejm, followed by the Law and Justice Party with 157 seats. The breakaway Palikot Movement won 40 seats and the second biggest incumbent coalition party, the Polish People's Party, won 28 seats. The Democratic Left Alliance got 27 seats.[12] In the Senate, Civic Platform won an absolute majority with 63 seats, while Law & Justice came away with 31. The only other party to achieve Senate representation was the Polish People's Party, which won 2 seats. Four independents were also elected.[15]

Sejm

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Civic Platform5,629,77339.18207–2
Law and Justice4,295,01629.89157–9
Palikot's Movement1,439,49010.0240New
Polish People's Party1,201,6288.3628–3
Democratic Left Alliance1,184,3038.2427–26
Poland Comes First315,3932.190New
Congress of the New Right151,8371.060New
Polish Labour Party79,1470.5500
Right Wing of the Republic35,1690.240New
German Minority Electoral Committee28,0140.1910
Our Home Poland9,7330.0700
Total14,369,503100.004600
Valid votes14,369,50395.48
Invalid/blank votes680,5244.52
Total votes15,050,027100.00
Registered voters/turnout30,762,93148.92
Source: PKW

Party breakdown

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Party or allianceVotes%Seats
Civic PlatformCivic Platform5,123,48635.66191
Independents491,2593.4216
Social Democracy of Poland13,7160.100
Democratic Party – demokraci.pl1,3120.010
Total5,629,77339.18207
United RightLaw and Justice3,545,51724.67132
Independents679,7934.7323
National-Catholic Movement48,6470.341
Movement for Reconstruction of Poland10,9990.081
Piast Faction8,6780.060
Right Wing of the Republic[a]1,3820.010
Total4,295,01629.89157
Palikot's MovementPalikot's Movement1,011,5587.0434
Independents310,3252.164
Reason Party94,4220.661
Democratic Left Alliance[a]19,4510.141
Democratic Party – demokraci.pl1,6140.010
Polish People's Party[a]1,5340.010
Total1,438,90410.0140
Polish People's PartyPolish People's Party966,4266.7327
Independents235,1051.641
Total1,201,5318.3628
Democratic Left AllianceDemocratic Left Alliance947,0566.5927
Independents164,8301.150
Labour Union20,0590.140
Women's Party13,7510.100
Greens 200412,4450.090
Social Democracy of Poland11,2790.080
National Party of Retirees and Pensioners7,3260.050
Democratic Party – demokraci.pl5,0400.040
Movement for Economic Revival1,0350.010
Party of Regions5980.000
Polish Communist Party5180.000
Polish Socialist Party3600.000
Reason Party3120.000
Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland[a]1900.000
Total1,184,7998.2527
Poland Comes FirstPoland Comes First192,2831.340
Independents120,4760.840
Alliance of Democrats5300.000
Polish People's Party[a]5160.000
National People's Movement3820.000
Conservative People's Party2860.000
League of Polish Families2650.000
National Party of Retirees and Pensioners2600.000
Law and Justice[a]2390.000
Union of Polish Monarchist Groups1560.000
Total315,3932.190
New Right of
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Congress of the New Right78,3590.550
Independents69,1330.480
Real Politics Union3,3100.020
Party of Greens of the Republic of Poland9070.010
League of Polish Families1280.000
Total151,8371.060
Polish Labour Party -
August 80
Independents44,2170.310
Polish Labour Party - August 8031,8570.220
Self-Defence[a]3,0120.020
Total79,0860.550
Right Wing of the RepublicIndependents19,9640.140
Right Wing of the Republic10,8840.080
Real Politics Union3,2670.020
Piast Faction3700.000
League of Polish Families3600.000
Europe of the Free Homelands650.000
Organisation of the Polish Nation - Polish League590.000
Christian Democracy of the Third Polish Republic410.000
Polish Agreement310.000
Labour Party180.000
Total35,0590.240
German MinorityIndependents28,0140.191
Our Home Poland –
Andrzej Lepper's Self-Defence
Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland7,1020.050
Independents2,5520.020
League of Polish Families600.000
Patriotic Poland [pl]190.000
Total9,7330.070
Total14,369,145100.00460
Source: Pliki Do Pobrania Okręgi wyborcze National Electoral Commission[b]

Senate

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Civic Platform5,173,30035.6063+3
Law and Justice3,915,35526.9431–8
Polish People's Party1,363,7969.392+2
Democratic Left Alliance1,355,1519.3300
Citizens to the Senate504,7923.470New
Rafał Dutkiewicz Electoral Committee261,1351.801New
Autonomy for Upper Silesia147,7101.020New
Poland Comes First109,1820.750New
Right Wing of the Republic82,1150.570New
Polish Labour Party76,9130.530New
Congress of the New Right73,0280.500New
W. Lubawskiego Senate for Citizens39,6390.270New
Podhalanie38,2430.260New
German Minority Electoral Committee34,2470.2400
Civic Poland33,4220.230New
San Valley Self-Government25,2960.170New
Nowy Ekran23,3690.160New
Bezpartyjni.pl19,8250.140New
League for the Defence of Sovereignty19,4400.130New
Confederation, Dignity and Rule of Law18,2770.130New
Our Home Poland16,3140.1100
Alliance for Poland13,8090.100New
Democratic Party12,8000.0900
Independent to the Senate10,2420.070New
League of Polish Families8,1670.0600
Ojcowizna3,2270.020New
Patriotic Poland3,4820.020New
Slavic Union2,9770.0200
National Revival of Poland2,9340.0200
Independents1,143,2757.873+2
Total14,531,462100.001000
Valid votes14,531,46296.57
Invalid/blank votes516,7983.43
Total votes15,048,260100.00
Registered voters/turnout30,762,93148.92
Source: PKW, Plankton Polityczny

By constituency

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# Voivodeship Commission # Party Elected member
1 Lower Silesian Legnica I Civic Coalition Jan Michalski
2 II Civic Coalition Józef Pinior
3 III Law and Justice Dorota Czudowska
4 Wałbrzych I Civic Coalition Wiesław Kilian
5 II Civic Coalition Stanisław Jurcewicz
6 Wrocław I Civic Coalition Jarosław Duda
7 II Civic Coalition Alicja Chybicka
8 III Rafał Dutkiewicz Electoral Committee Jarosław Obremski
9 Kuyavian-Pomeranian Bydgoszcz I Civic Coalition Andrzej Kobiak
10 II Civic Coalition Jan Rulewski
11 Toruń I Civic Coalition Jan Wyrowiński
12 II Civic Coalition Michał Wojtczak
13 III Civic Coalition Andrzej Person
14 Lublin Lublin I Law and Justice Stanisław Gogacz
15 II Law and Justice Grzegorz Czelej
16 III Law and Justice Henryk Cioch
17 Chełm I Law and Justice Grzegorz Bierecki
18 II Polish People's Party Józef Zając
19 III Law and Justice Jerzy Chróścikowski
20 Lubusz Zielona Góra I Civic Coalition Stanisław Iwan
21 II Civic Coalition Helena Hatka
22 III Civic Coalition Robert Dowhan
23 Łódź Łódź I Civic Coalition Maciej Grubski
24 II Civic Coalition Ryszard Bonisławski
25 Sieradz I Law and Justice Przemysław Błaszczyk
26 II Civic Coalition Andrzej Owczarek
27 III Law and Justice Michał Seweryński
28 Piotrków Trybunalski I Law and Justice Wiesław Dobkowski
29 II Law and Justice Grzegorz Wojciechowski
30 Lesser Poland Kraków I Law and Justice Andrzej Pająk
31 II Law and Justice Bogdan Pęk
32 III Civic Coalition Janusz Sepioł
33 IV Civic Coalition Bogdan Klich
34 Tarnów I Law and Justice Maciej Klima
35 II Law and Justice Kazimierz Wiatr
36 Nowy Sącz I Civic Coalition Stanisław Hodorowicz
37 II Law and Justice Stanisław Kogut
38 Masovian Płock I Law and Justice Marek Martynowski
39 II Law and Justice Jan Jackowski
40 Warszawa I Civic Coalition Anna Aksamit
41 II Civic Coalition Łukasz Abgarowicz
42 III Independent Marek Borowski
43 IV Civic Coalition Marek Rocki
44 V Civic Coalition Barbara Borys-Damięcka
45 VI Civic Coalition Aleksander Pociej
46 Siedlce I Law and Justice Robert Mamątow
47 II Law and Justice Henryk Górski
48 III Law and Justice Waldemar Kraska
49 Radom I Law and Justice Stanisław Karczewski
50 II Law and Justice Wojciech Skurkiewicz
51 Opole Opole I Civic Coalition Ryszard Knosala
52 II Civic Coalition Piotr Wach
53 III Civic Coalition Aleksander Świeykowski
54 Subcarpathian Rzeszów I Law and Justice Janina Sagatowska
55 II Law and Justice Władysław Ortyl
56 III Law and Justice Kazimierz Jaworski
57 Krosno I Law and Justice Alicja Zając
58 II Law and Justice Andrzej Matusiewicz
59 Podlaskie Białystok I Law and Justice Bohdan Paszkowski
60 II Civic Coalition Tadeusz Arłukowicz
61 III Independent Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
62 Pomeranian Słupsk I Civic Coalition Kazimierz Kleina
63 II Civic Coalition Roman Zaborowski
64 III Civic Coalition Edmund Wittbrodt
65 Gdańsk I Civic Coalition Bogdan Borusewicz
66 II Civic Coalition Andrzej Grzyb
67 III Civic Coalition Leszek Czarnobaj
68 Silesian Częstochowa I Civic Coalition Jarosław Lasecki
69 II Civic Coalition Andrzej Szewiński
70 Katowice I Civic Coalition Maria Pańczyk-Pozdziej
71 II Civic Coalition Andrzej Misiołek
72 Bielsko-Biała I Civic Coalition Adam Zdziebło
73 II Civic Coalition Antoni Motyczka
74 Katowice III Civic Coalition Leszek Piechota
75 IV Civic Coalition Elżbieta Bieńkowska
76 V Civic Coalition Zbigniew Meres
77 VI Civic Coalition Bogusław Śmigielski
78 Bielsko-Biała III Civic Coalition Rafał Muchacki
79 IV Civic Coalition Tadeusz Kopeć
80 Katowice VII Independent Kazimierz Kutz
81 Świętokrzyskie Kielce I Law and Justice Mieczysław Gil
82 II Law and Justice Beata Gosiewska
83 III Law and Justice Krzysztof Słoń
84 Warmian-Masurian Elbląg I Civic Coalition Witold Gintowt-Dziewałtowski
85 II Civic Coalition Stanisław Gorczyca
86 Olsztyn I Civic Coalition Ryszard Górecki
87 II Civic Coalition Marek Konopka
88 Greater Poland Piła I Civic Coalition Mieczysław Augustyn
89 II Civic Coalition Jan Libicki
90 Poznań I Civic Coalition Marek Ziółkowski
91 II Civic Coalition Jadwiga Rotnicka
92 Konin I Civic Coalition Piotr Gruszczyński
93 II Civic Coalition Ireneusz Niewiarowski
94 Kalisz I Civic Coalition Marian Poślednik
95 II Polish People's Party Andżelika Możdżanowska
96 III Civic Coalition Witold Sitarz
97 West Pomeranian Szczecin I Civic Coalition Norbert Obrycki
98 II Civic Coalition Sławomir Preiss
99 Koszalin I Civic Coalition Grażyna Sztark
100 II Civic Coalition Piotr Zientarski

Reactions

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Civic Platform's Donald Tusk said of the victory that: "It is the highest honour for me and for Civic Platform that we will be working for the next four years for all of you, regardless of who you voted for today. In the next four years we will work twice as hard."[12] The Law and Justice Party's Jaroslaw Kaczynski conceded defeat.[16] Polish financial markets reacted positively to the outcome, while the zloty rose.[17]

Analysis

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The Civic Platform was considered to be the big winner of the election, being the only Polish political party to have achieved reelection over the past 20 years of democratic elections. Further to that, PO saw only a very small voter swing against it (-2.3%) and a loss of only two seats from its 2007 outcome which was a record result. The other big winner, was the newly established Palikot Movement, which managed to poll double figures (10%) to come in at third place, ahead of PSL and SLD, both of which were longstanding established parties. Opinion polls, of only a month or so prior to the election, had Palikot's Movement at around 2% of the vote, well below the election threshold. The Polish People's Party (8.4%) managed to hang on to its support base (despite some opinion polls suggesting that they would struggle to achieve the threshold), allowing it to continue its coalition with PO, and maintain its level of representation in the new government.

On the other hand, Law and Justice was one of the big losers in the election. PiS was seeking to defeat PO, but failed to even lift its own vote (falling from over 32% in 2007 to less than 30% in 2011). The other big loser was the Democratic Left Alliance, which for the first time in its history failed to achieve a result above 10% (2001 -40%, 2005 - 11%, 2007 - 13%). It was the first time in which SLD fell to fifth place in party results, and the first time in which it polled below the Polish People's Party. Poland Comes First, failed to capture the middle ground between the two major parties, as it was hoping to do, and lost all of its parliamentary seats, achieving only a very modest 2.2% of the vote.

Bloomberg said of the victory for Civic Platform that, as Poland was the only EU country to avoid a recession in 2009, it could continue with its economic initiatives such as consolidating the budget with an expected shortfall and also to avoid austerity measures that many other EU countries have been forced to endure. It also added that the success of the breakaway Palikot movement, coupled with the People Party's reluctance to support some policies, could provide a counterweight to keeping Civic Platform from getting complacent.[18]

Government formation

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Following Civic Platform's victory, Tusk said that his party's coalition alliance with the smaller Polish People's Party would continue.[16] Tusk also declared that his ministry would remain unchanged for the remainder of the year, citing the fact that this was the preferable course of action given Poland's presidency of the EU, which continues to the end of the year.[19]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Individual members running on lists different from their own parties
  2. ^ In result breakdown by candidate provided by the National Electoral Commission, the sum of party votes are different from final released vote totals for coalitions for Palikot's Movement (by 586), Polish People's Party (by 96), Democratic Left Alliance (by 496), Polish Labour Party - August 80 (by 61) and Right Wing of the Republic (by 110). In the table, figures provided for each party are taken from the candidate breakdown while coalition sums are taken from the final result.

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