2010 Polish presidential election
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The popular election of the President of Poland were held on 20 June 2010. As no candidate received majority votes in the first round, a second round will be held on 4 July 2010.[1]
Background
After President Lech Kaczyński's death in a plane crash on 10 April 2010, the Constitution required the Marshal of the Sejm to declare the date within two weeks, with the election to take place on a weekend within the following 60 days, i.e. 20 June at the latest. On 21 April, the Marshal, Bronisław Komorowski, announced the election date as 20 June 2010.[2] Candidates were required to register by 26 April 2010 (with 1,000 signatures of voters in support) and submit 100,000 signatures by 6 May 2010.[3]
Originally, Kaczyński was up for re-election in autumn (between 19 September and 3 October; the exact date would have been announced between 23 May and 23 June), before the end of his first five-year term of office.[4]
Two candidates for the election died in the crash. Incumbent Lech Kaczyński was nominated as the Law and Justice party candidate (he had yet to accept the nomination, but it was widely believed that he would do so), and Jerzy Szmajdziński was to have run for the Democratic Left Alliance.[5]
Senate by-elections to fill the three seats whose senators died in the crash – Krystyna Bochenek (PO), Janina Fetlińska (PiS) and Stanisław Zając (PiS, himself elected in a by-election on 22 June 2008 to replace Andrzej Mazurkiewicz) – will be held on the same date.[6]
Candidates
In total, 23 candidates (all of whom were men) registered with the Polish National Electoral Commission on, or just following, the April 26 deadline. 17 of the 23 candidacies were accepted by the commission, whilst the remaining 6 were rejected (had not gathered the required 1000 signatures).
Only ten candidates collected the required 100,000 signatures and are, therefore, eligible to run for president.[7]
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Marshal of the Sejm and Acting President Bronisław Komorowski (Civic Platform), 58
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Former Sejm Member Janusz Korwin-Mikke (Liberty and Rule of Law), 67 -
Former Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland), 56
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Founder and leader of Fighting Solidarity Kornel Morawiecki, 69
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Party Chairman and Sejm Member Grzegorz Napieralski (Democratic Left Alliance), 36 -
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrzej Olechowski (Independent), 62 -
Former Prime Minister and Current Deputy Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak (Polish People's Party), 50 -
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Rejected candidates
- Zdzisław Jankowski
- Gabriel Janowski - national-conservative, former Minister of Agriculture
- Dariusz Kosiur
- Bartłomiej Kurzeja - artist, self-described as "the National Sculptor"
- Krzysztof Mazurski - scientist, geographer
- Paweł Pietrzyk
- Roman Sklepowicz
- Paweł Soroka - political scientist
- Bogdan Szpryngiel - a former Libertas candidate to the European Parliament
- Ludwik Wasiak
- Józef Wójcik
- Waldemar Urbanowski
Withdrew
- Zdzisław Podkański - former member of the European Parliament (Polish People's Party), leader of the national-conservative party Piast.[8]
Results
Template:Polish presidential election, 2010
Opinion polls
First round
| Date | Institute | Candidate | Undecided | Source | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronisław Komorowski | Jarosław Kaczyński | Grzegorz Napieralski | Waldemar Pawlak | Andrzej Olechowski | Andrzej Lepper | Janusz Korwin-Mikke | Marek Jurek | Kornel Morawiecki | Bogusław Ziętek | ||||
| May 7, 2010 | TNS OBOP | 50% | 36% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | - | [9] |
| May 10, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 45% | 34% | 5% | 4% | 3% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% | - | [10] |
| May 12, 2010 | GfK Polonia | 41% | 28% | 4% | 0% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 16% | [11] |
| May 14, 2010 | TNS OBOP | 51% | 38% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | - | [12] |
| May 15, 2010 | GfK Polonia | 48% | 30% | 5% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 6% | [13] |
| May 15, 2010 | Homo Homini | 42,2% | 35,9% | 4,7% | 5,7 | 2,3% | 0,6% | 0,7% | 1,9% | 0% | 0% | 6% | [14] |
| May 17, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 49% | 29% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 7% | [15] |
| May 22, 2010 | GfK Polonia | 53% | 28% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 1% | 0% | 0% | - | [16] |
| May 29, 2010 | Homo Homini | 47,6% | 32,5% | 6,1% | 4,2% | 1,6% | 0,7% | 0,6% | 0,7% | 0,1% | 0,1% | 5,6% | [17] |
| May 31, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 46% | 30% | 9% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 5% | [18] |
| June 2, 2010 | PBS DGA | 48% | 33% | 8% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | - | [19] |
| June 4, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 42% | 31% | 6% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 15% | [20] |
| June 5, 2010 | Homo Homini | 46,5% | 32,4% | 6,1% | 4,4% | 2,2% | 0,6% | 0,4% | 0,4% | 0,1% | 0% | 6,4% | [21] |
| June 7, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 43% | 32% | 8% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 5% | [22] |
| June 9, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 45% | 31% | 7% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 5% | [23] |
| June 12, 2010 | GfK Polonia | 42% | 29% | 11% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 9% | [24] |
| June 16, 2010 | GfK Polonia | 48% | 34% | 9% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 1% | 1% | 1% | - | [25] |
| June 16, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 41% | 29% | 12% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% | - | [26] |
| June 17, 2010 | TNS OBOP | 42% | 35% | 13% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 0% | 0% | - | [27] |
| June 18, 2010 | MillwardBrown SMG/KRC | 44% | 29% | 13% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 5% | [28] |
Second Round
| Date | Institute | Candidate | Undecided | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronisław Komorowski | Jarosław Kaczyński | ||||
| May 7, 2010 | TNS OBOP | 61% | 39% | - | [9] |
| May 10, 2010 | SMG/KRC | 54% | 41% | 5% | [10] |
| May 12, 2010 | GfK Polonia | 53% | 34% | 13% | [11] |
| May 14, 2010 | TNS OBOP | 55% | 39% | 6% | [29] |
| May 17, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 58% | 33% | 9% | [30] |
| June 2, 2010 | PBS DGA | 64% | 36% | - | [31] |
| June 4, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 56% | 35% | 9% | [32] |
| June 9, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 54% | 36% | 7% | [23] |
| June 16, 2010 | SMG/KRC Millward Brown | 60% | 40% | - | [25] |
| June 18, 2010 | MillwardBrown SMG/KRC | 56% | 33% | 11% | [28] |
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- ^ Constitution of Poland, Article 128
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