1922 Polish parliamentary election

1922 Polish parliamentary election

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All 444 seats in the Sejm
Turnout67.9%[1]
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
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Leader Yitzhak Gruenbaum Wincenty Witos
Party ChZJN BMN PSL "Piast"
Leader since November 1920 1922 1 December 1918
Last election 140 46
Seats won 163 66 70
Seat change Increase 23 New Increase 24
Popular vote 2,551,582 1,398,250 1,153,397
Percentage 29.1% 16.0% 13.2%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Stanisław Thugutt Ignacy Daszyński Jan Stanisław Jankowski
Party PSL "Wyzwolenie" PPS NPR
Leader since 1921 1921 1920
Last election 59 35 32
Seats won 49 41 18
Seat change Decrease 10 Increase 6 Decrease 14
Popular vote 963,385 906,537 473,676
Percentage 11.0% 10.3% 5.4%

Winning party by electoral districts

Prime Minister before election

Julian Nowak
Party of the National Right

Elected Prime Minister

Władysław Sikorski
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 5 November 1922, with Senate elections held a week later on 12 November.[2] The elections were governed by the March Constitution of Poland, and saw the Christian Union of National Unity coalition emerge as the largest bloc in the Sejm with 163 of the 444 seats.

The resulting coalitions were unstable, and the situation - difficult from the start, with assassination of Polish president Gabriel Narutowicz in December shortly after the elections - culminated in 1926 with the May Coup.

  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