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Polish parliamentary election, 2015

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All 460 seats to the Sejm
231 seats are needed for a majority in the Sejm
All 100 seats to the Senate of Poland
  First party Second party Third party
  File:Beata Szydło September 2015.png
Leader Ewa Kopacz Beata Szydło Barbara Nowacka
Party PO PiS United Left (Poland)
Leader since 8 November 2014 20 June 2015[1] 21 July 2015
Last election 39.2%, 207 seats 29.9%, 157 seats Did not exist
Seats before 197[2] 134[2] 50

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Janusz Piechociński Janusz Korwin-Mikke Ryszard Galla
Party PSL KORWiN German Minority
Leader since 17 November 2012 22 January 2015 25 September 2005
Last election 8.4%, 28 seats Did not exist 0,19%, 1 seat
Seats before 38[2] 3 1

Prime Minister before election

Ewa Kopacz
PO

Elected Prime Minister

TBD

Parliamentary elections to both the Sejm and Senate will be held in Poland on 25 October 2015.

Background

The previous elections in 2011 resulted in a Civic PlatformPolish People's Party government. All seats of both Houses are up for re-election.

Politics of Poland

The President of Poland has the power to dissolve the Sejm by his own will. Unlike other countries the President can refuse to dissolve the parliament at the request of the Prime Minister or the Sejm and all the parties represented in Parliament. If the Prime Minister resigns, the President must nominate a new Prime Minister after listening to all the parties represented in Parliament and then the nominee must be confirmed by the Assembly of the Republic.

Date

The date of the election, October 25, was set by the previously President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski. The latest possible date for the election to be held was in November 2015, four years after the previous election. Prior to the announcement of the election date, the most likely dates were thought to be in October or November.

Electoral system

The process of election for the Sejm is through open party-list proportional representation via the D'hondt method in multi-seat constituencies, with a 5% threshold for single parties and 8% threshold for coalitions (requirements waived for national minorities). The senate is elected using first-past-the-post voting in single-member districts.[3]

To be included on a ballot, a senate candidate must present 2000 signatures of support from their constituents.[4] For Sejm elections, the threshold is 5000 signatures per constituency, though that requirement is waived for parties who have already registered lists in at least half of all constituencies[5] (21 out of 41 as of this election).

Overall, the Sejm includes 460 MPs. Should a party with 231 or more deputies representing the Parliament, it has an absolute majority and could thus without a coalition partner to govern autonomously. The constitution can be amended with a supermajority of two-thirds, or 307 deputies.

Parties standing in the election

Nationwide committees

Party Leader Ideologies Political spectrum Political groups of the European Parliament
bgcolor="Template:Civic Platform/meta/color" | Civic Platform (PO) Ewa Kopacz Christian democracy, Liberal conservatism, Pro-Europeanism Centre-right European People's Party Group (EPP)
bgcolor="Template:Law and Justice/meta/color" | Law and Justice (PiS)
Solidary Poland (SP)
Poland Together - United Right (PRZP)
Right Wing of the Republic (PRz)
Beata Szydło Conservatism, Economism, Soft Euroscepticism Centre-right to Right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Left Alliance/meta/color" | United Left[6][7][8][9] (ZL)
Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)
Your Movement (TR)
Polish Socialist Party (PPS)
Labour Union (UP)
The Greens (Zieloni)
Polish Labour Party (Sierpień 80) (PPP)
Barbara Nowacka Feminism, Democratic socialism, Social Democracy, Progressivism, Green politics Left wing to Centre-left Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)
bgcolor="Template:Polish People's Party/meta/color" | Polish People's Party (PSL) Janusz Piechociński Agrarianism Centre to Centre-right European People's Party Group (EPP)
Coalition for the Renewal of the Republic - Freedom and Hope (KORWiN) Janusz Korwin-Mikke Right libertarianism, Hard-Euroscepticism Right-wing Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD)
Parties not in the Sejm are below
Kukiz'15 (K'15)[10]
Kat & Roman Kostrzewski (Kat)
Sceptic (Sceptic)
Dies Irae (Irae)
Sirrah (Sirrah)
Paweł Kukiz Populism, Anticommunism Big band
.Modern (.N) Ryszard Petru Neoliberalism, Liberal feminism, Pro-Europeanism Centre
Together (Razem) collective leadership Social Democracy[11] Left-wing

Regional committees

Party Leader Ideology Political spectrum Political groups of the European Parliament
German Minority Electoral Committee (MN) Ryszard Galla German minority in Poland, Regionalism Centre
Parties not in the Sejm are below
Congress of the New Right (KNP) Michał Marusik Right libertarianism, Anti-immigration, Hard-Euroscepticism Right-wing to Far-right Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF)
Single-member district - Nonpartisan (JOW Bezpartyjni) Robert Raczyński Single-member district, Centrism Centre
Committee of Zbigniew Stonoga (KWW ZS) Zbigniew Stonoga Anti-communism, Populism Right-wing to Far right
Social Movement of the Republic of Poland (RS RP) Sławomir Izdebski Agrarian socialism, Left-wing populism, Left-wing nationalism Left-wing
United for Silesia (ZdŚ) Jerzy Gorzelik Silesian nationalism, Regionalism Centre
Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (SRP) Lech Kuropatwiński Agrarianism, Left-wing nationalism Left-wing
God Bless You (SB) Grzegorz Braun Monarchism, Traditionalism, Ordoliberalism Right-wing to Far right
Citizens to Parliament (OdP) Jan Zbigniew Potocki Democracy Big tent

Opinion polls

In the run up to the election, various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention. The poll results are listed in the table below.

polls
Notes
  1. ^ a b Law and Justice, United Poland, and Poland Together have concluded an electoral alliance, and as such are considered a single entity by most pollsters.
  2. ^ Your Movement did not present lists in all regions in the local elections.
  3. ^ a b In this poll, the people surveyed were asked how they would vote in the hypothetical event of Jarosław Gowin launching his own party.
  4. ^ In this poll, the people surveyed were asked how they would vote in the hypothetical event of Zbigniew Ziobro launching his own party.

References

  1. ^ http://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/beata-szydlo-kandydatem-pis-na-premiera,553202.html
  2. ^ a b c "Sejm parliamentary groups". Sejm. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Polish Sejm, Part I". electionresources.org. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
  4. ^ http://www.senat.gov.pl/gfx/senat/userfiles/_public/k8eng/noty/howare.pdf
  5. ^ http://www.sejm.gov.pl/english/sejm/pos.htm
  6. ^ http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/223624,Polands-United-Left-puts-forward-candidate-for-PM
  7. ^ http://fakty.interia.pl/raporty/raport-wybory-parlamentarne-2015/aktualnosci/news-do-zjednoczonej-lewicy-dolaczyl-nowy-koalicjant,nId,1885559
  8. ^ http://wbj.pl/united-left-presents-its-new-leader-and-pm-candidate/
  9. ^ http://zjednoczona-lewica.pl/
  10. ^ http://wpolityce.pl/kultura/250365-kulturalny-flesz-dnia-kukiz-vs-piersi-wildstein-vs-peszek-shirley-temple
  11. ^ "Partia Razem. Nowa partia dla prekariuszy". Gazeta Wyborcza. Retrieved 2015-09-26.