Polish presidential election, 1995

Polish presidential election, 1995 (Round 2)

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Nominee Aleksander Kwaśniewski Lech Wałęsa Party Democratic Left Alliance Solidarity Electoral Action Popular vote 9,704,439 9,058,176 Percentage 51.7% 48.3%

President before election Lech Wałęsa Solidarity Electoral Action President Aleksander Kwaśniewski Democratic Left Alliance

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1995 Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday November 5 (first round), and Sunday November 19 (second round). Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Lech Wałęsa passed to the second round. Kwaśniewski won the election, collecting 51.7 percent of votes in the run-off, against 48.3 percent for Lech Wałęsa, the former Solidarity leader.

Background

Kwaśniewski's campaign slogans were "Let's choose the future" (Wybierzmy przyszłość) and "A Poland for all" (Wspólna Polska). Political opponents disputed his victory, and produced evidence to show that he had lied about his education in registration documents and public presentations. There was also some mystery over his graduation from university. A law court confirmed that Kwaśniewski had lied about his record, but did not penalise him for it, judging the information irrelevant to the election result.

Candidates

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  Activist Leszek Bubel

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  Activist Tadeusz Koźluk

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  Minister of Labour and Social Policy Jacek Kuroń

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  Former Chair of Social Democracy Aleksander Kwaśniewski

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  Activist Andrzej Lepper

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  Chairman of Unia Polityki Realnej Janusz Korwin-Mikke

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  Former Prime Minister Jan Olszewski

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  Former Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak

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  Comedian Jan Pietrzak

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  Activist Kazimierz Piotrowicz

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  Chairwoman of the National Bank of Poland Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

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  Former Chairman of the Solidarity movement Lech Wałęsa

Results

Kwaśniewski won with 51.7 percent of votes in the run-off. 64.7% of citizens cast their votes during the first round, 98.2% of those were valid. 68.2% of citizens cast their vote during the second round, 98.0% of those were valid.

First round

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Aleksander Kwaśniewski	SLD	6,275,670	35.11
Lech Wałęsa	-	5,917,328	33.11
Jacek Kuroń	UW	1,646,946	9.22
Jan Olszewski	RdR	1,225,453	6.86
Waldemar Pawlak	PSL	770,419	4.31
Tadeusz Zieliński	UP	631,432	3.53
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz	-	492,628	2.76
Janusz Korwin-Mikke	UPR	428,969	2.40
Andrzej Lepper	Samoobrona	235,797	1.32
Jan Pietrzak	-	201,033	1.12
Tadeusz Koźluk	-	27,259	0.15
Kazimierz Piotrowicz	-	12,591	0.07
Leszek Bubel	-	6,825	0.04
Total	-	-	100.00

Second round

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Aleksander Kwaśniewski	SLD	9,704,439	51.72
Lech Wałęsa	-	9,058,176	48.28
Total	-	-	100.00

References

• Obwieszczenie PKW z dn. 7 XI 1995 r., Dziennik Ustaw Nr 126, poz. 604;
• Obwieszczenie PKW z dn. 7 XI 1995 r., Dz.U. Nr 131, poz. 636