1965 Polish parliamentary election

1965 Polish parliamentary election

30 June 1965 (1965-06-30)
All 460 seats in the Sejm
First party   Leader Władysław Gomułka Party FJN - PZPR Seats won 460 Seat change
Premier before election Józef Cyrankiewicz PZPR New Premier Józef Cyrankiewicz PZPR

Czesław Wycech, leader of puppet United People's Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 30 May 1965. They were the fourth elections 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).

The distribution of seats was decided before the elections by the FJN, with voters having no possibility to change it. The results of the 1965 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1969 and 1972 elections.

Results

Of the 49 independents, five were affiliated with Znak, five with the PAX Association and three with the Christian Social Association. As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total.

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Front of National Unity		Polish United Workers' Party	18,742,152	98.81	255	–1
			United People's Party			117	0
			Democratic Party			39	0
			Independents			49	+1
Blank ballots				226,324	1.19	–	–
Total				18,968,476	100.00	460	0
Valid votes				18,968,476	99.93
Invalid votes				13,840	0.07
Total votes				18,982,316	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				19,645,803	96.62
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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),