Polish legislative election, 1965

Polish legislative election, 1965

1961 ← 30 June 1965 (1965-06-30) → 1969

All 460 seats in the Sejm   First party   Leader Władysław Gomułka Party FJN - PZPR Leader since 21 October 1956 Leader's seat Warsaw-Prague Last election 412, 89.5% Seats won 411 (PZPR - 255, ZSL - 117, SD - 39), 89.3% Seat change -1

Premier before election Józef Cyrankiewicz PZPR New Premier Józef Cyrankiewicz PZPR

The Polish legislative election of 1965 was the fourth election to the Sejm, the parliament of the People's Republic of Poland, and fifth in Communist Poland. They took place on 30 May. The lists admitted were controlled by the Front of National Unity (FJN), in turn controlled by the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR).

Czesław Wycech, leader of puppet United People's Party

The distribution of seats was decided before the elections by the FJN, and electors had no possibility to change it.

The results of the 1965 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1969 and 1972 elections.

Results

The results were as follows:

 Summary of the Sejm election results

Party		Ideology	Seats	%
	Polish United Workers' Party	Communism	255	55.4%
	United People's Party	Agrarianism	117	25.4%
	Independents	–	49	10.7%
	Democratic Party	Centrism	39	8.5%
Total			460

As the other parties and "independents" were in fact subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was, in fact, total.

The turnout of the election was 96.6%.

Further reading

• Jerzy Drygalski, Jacek Kwasniewski, No-Choice Elections, Soviet Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 295-315, JSTOR
• George Sakwa, Martin Crouch, Sejm Elections in Communist Poland: An Overview and a Reappraisal, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Oct., 1978), pp. 403-424, JSTOR
• Informacja o dziatalnoici Sejmu PRL. (IV kadencja 1965-1969) (Warsaw: Sejm Chancellory Publications, 1969),

External links

• (Polish) List of members of Polish Sejm from 1965 to 1969 on Polish Wikipedia