2006 Polish local elections

2006 Polish regional assembly election

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561 seats to regional assemblies
Turnout	45.99%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Donald Tusk Jarosław Kaczyński Waldemar Pawlak Party PO PiS PSL Leader since 1 June 2003 18 January 2003 29 January 2005 Last election part of POPiS part of POPiS 58 seats, 10.81% Seats before 91 96 58 Seats won 186 170 83 Seat change 79 74 25 Percentage 27.18% 25.08% 13.24% Swing 15.07% 12.97% 2.43%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Wojciech Olejniczak Andrzej Lepper Roman Giertych Party LiD SRP LPR Leader since 29 May 2005 10 January 1992 11 March 2006 Last election 189 seats, 24.65% 101 seats, 15.98% 92 seats, 14.36% Seats before 189 101 92 Seats won 66 37 11 Seat change 123 64 81 Percentage 14.25% 5.64% 4.74% Swing 10.40% 10.34% 9.62%
Result of the voivodeship sejmik elections

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The 2006 Polish local elections were held in two parts. with its first round on 12 November and the second on 26 November 2006. In the election's first round, voters chose 39,944 gmina councillors, 6,284 powiat councillors and 561 deputies to provincial voivodeship sejmiks. Additionally, 2,460 city and town mayors, borough leaders and other officials were decided by direct or runoff elections in the second round. The elections were seen as a test to the government of Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, whose coalition between his own Law and Justice party and its junior coalition partners, the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland and the League of Polish Families, had undergone a severe crisis two months prior.^[1]