1976 Polish parliamentary election

1976 Polish parliamentary election

21 March 1976
All 460 seats in the Sejm
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Edward Gierek Stanisław Gucwa Andrzej Benesz Party PZPR ZSL SD Last election 255 seats 117 seats 39 seats Seats won 261 113 37 Seat change 6 4 2

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 21 March 1976. The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1976 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1980 election, and were only marginally different from those of the preceding years, and from the 1985 election.

Results

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Front of National Unity		Polish United Workers' Party	23,502,983	99.43	261	+6
			United People's Party			113	–4
			Democratic Party			37	–2
			Independents			49	0
Blank ballots				134,350	0.57	–	–
Total				23,637,333	100.00	460	0
Valid votes				23,637,333	99.94
Invalid votes				14,923	0.06
Total votes				23,652,256	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				24,069,579	98.27
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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