1928 Polish parliamentary election

1928 Polish parliamentary election

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All 444 seats in the Sejm
Turnout78.5%[1]
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
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Leader Walery Sławek Zygmunt Marek Yitzhak Gruenbaum
Party BBWR PPS BMN
Leader since November 1927 2 February 1926
(as chairman of PPS caucus)
1922
Leader's seat 1 – Warsaw 44 - Nowy Sącz 1 - Warsaw
Last election Did not exist 41 66
Seats won 125 64 55
Seat change Increase 125 Increase 23 Decrease 11
Popular vote 2,399,438 1,482,097 1,439,568
Percentage 21.0% 13.0% 12.6%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Maksymilian Malinowski Stanisław Kozicki Wincenty Witos
Józef Chaciński
Party PSL "Wyzwolenie" BKN PBK
Leader since 1925 1923 1918 (Witos)
1927 (Chaciński)
Leader's seat 27 - Zamość Senate - Lublin area 84 - Tarnów (Witos)
24 l.p. (Chaciński)
Last election 49 98
(163 asChjena)
Did not exist
Seats won 40 38 34
Seat change Decrease 9 Decrease 60 Increase 34
Popular vote 834,710 925,570 770,891
Percentage 7.3% 8.1% 6.8%

Results parliamentary election by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Józef Piłsudski
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Kazimierz Bartel
BBWR

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 4 March 1928, with Senate elections held a week later on 11 March.[2] The Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government, a coalition of the Sanation faction - won the highest number of seats in the Sejm (125 out of 444) and 48 out of 111 in the Senate–in both cases, short of a majority. Unlike latter elections during the Sanation era, opposition parties were allowed to campaign with only a few hindrances, and gained a significant number of seats. The 1928 election is often considered the last fully free election in the Second Polish Republic.[3][4]

  1. ^ Polska 1918–2018. Warsaw. 2018. p. 29.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. ^ A. J. Groth, Polish Elections 1919-1928, Slavic Review, Vol. 24, No. 4. (Dec., 1965), pp. 653-665. JSTOR, Last accessed on 14 April 2007
  4. ^ Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan, Poland at the Crossroads: The 1993 General Election, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1. (1995), pp. 123-145. Last accessed on 14 April 2007