1993 Polish parliamentary election

1993 Polish parliamentary election

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Turnout52.10% (Increase 8.90pp)
Sejm

All 460 seats in the Sejm
231 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
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Leader Aleksander Kwaśniewski Waldemar Pawlak Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Party SLD PSL UD
Leader since 30 January 1990 29 June 1991 May 1991
Leader's seat Warsaw Płock Poznań
Last election 60 seats, 12% 48 seats, 8.7% 62 seats, 12.3%
Seats won 171 132 74
Seat change Increase 111 Increase 84 Increase 12
Popular vote 2,815,169 2,124,367 1,460,957
Percentage 20.4% 15.4% 10.6%
Swing Increase 8.4% Increase 6.7% Decrease 1.7%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Ryszard Bugaj Leszek Moczulski Andrzej Gąsienica-Makowski
Party UP KPN BBWR
Leader since 1992 1 September 1979 1993
Leader's seat Warsaw Kraków Nowy Sącz
Last election Did not exist 46 seats, 7.5% Did not exist
Seats won 41 22 16
Seat change New Decrease 24 New
Popular vote 1,005,004 795,487 746,653
Percentage 7.3% 5.8% 5.4%
Swing New Decrease 1.7% New
Senate

All 100 seats in the Senate
51 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
SLD Aleksander Kwaśniewski 18.31 37 +33
PSL Waldemar Pawlak 11.88 36 +29
UD Tadeusz Mazowiecki 10.69 4 −17
KO "S" Marian Krzaklewski 9.84 9 −2
BBWR Andrzej Gąsienica-Makowski 8.05 2 New
UP Ryszard Bugaj 4.11 2 New
KLD Donald Tusk 3.99 1 −5
ZP Kazimierz Barczyk [pl] 2.23 1 New
PSL-PL Gabriel Janowski 1.05 1 −4
MN Henryk Kroll 0.46 1 0
KIKSRK [pl][a] Barbara Łękawa [pl] 0.37 1 New
NSZZ RI "S" Roman Wierzbicki [pl] 0.12 1
Independents 4.01 4 +4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Government before Government after
Suchocka cabinet
UDZChNKLDPSL-PLSLChPChDPPG
Second Pawlak Cabinet
SLD (SdRP)—PSL

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 19 September 1993. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The elections were won by the left-wing parties of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish People's Party, who formed a coalition government. The coalition was just four seats short of a supermajority.
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