2015 Polish parliamentary election

2015 Polish parliamentary election

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All 460 seats in the Sejm
231 seats needed for a majority
Turnout50.92%
  First party Second party Third party
 
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Ewa Kopacz - Konwencja PO (cropped).jpg
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Leader Beata Szydło Ewa Kopacz Paweł Kukiz
Party PiS PO Kukiz'15
Last election 29.89%, 157 seats 39.18%, 207 seats New party
Seats won 235 138 42
Seat change Increase 78 Decrease 69 New
Popular vote 5,711,687 3,661,474 1,339,094
Percentage 37.58% 24.09% 8.81%
Swing Increase 7.69pp Decrease 15.09pp New party

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Ryszard Petru Janusz Piechociński Ryszard Galla
Party .N PSL MN
Last election New party 8.36%, 28 seats 0.19%, 1 seat
Seats won 28 16 1
Seat change New Decrease 12 Steady
Popular vote 1,155,370 779,875 27,530
Percentage 7.60% 5.13% 0.18%
Swing New party Decrease 3.23pp Decrease 0.01pp

Seats won by Sejm District

Government before election

Kopacz cabinet
POPSL

Elected Government

Szydło cabinet
PiS (ZP)

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 25 October 2015. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The election was won by the largest opposition party, the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS), with 38% of the vote against the governing Civic Platform (PO), which achieved 24%. Official results, announced on 27 October, gave Law and Justice 235 of the 460 seats, a majority of four.[1] PiS vice chairwoman Beata Szydło succeeded PO leader Ewa Kopacz as Prime Minister of Poland, heading a one-party cabinet.

It was the first election for a national parliament in Europe since the 1993 Norwegian elections in which the two largest parties were led by a female candidate, and the second election in history (also since the 1993 Norwegian election) where more than three parties fielded female leadership candidates. It was also the first election in Poland since the restoration of full democracy that a party won an absolute majority in the Sejm.

Following PiS's victory in the May 2015 presidential elections, PiS would have control over both the presidency and parliament for the next eight years.

  1. ^ "Poland's Eurosceptics win outright majority in parliament". Reuters. Retrieved 27 October 2015.