Polish legislative election, 1980

23 March 1980 (1980-03-23)

All 460 seats in the Sejm

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Edward Gierek	Stanisław Gucwa
Party	PZPR	United People's Party
Leader since	December 20, 1970	1971
Last election	261 seats, 56.7%	117 seats, 25.4%
Seats won	261	113
Seat change	0	0
Percentage	56.7%	24.6%
Swing	0	0

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Independent	Tadeusz Witold Młyńczak
Party	Independent	SD
Leader since	–	1976
Last election	49	37
Seats won	49	37
Seat change	0	0
Percentage	10.7%	8%
Swing	0	0

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 23 March 1980.^[1] 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. The election of 1985 once again produced only marginally different results.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Front of National Unity	Polish United Workers' Party	24,683,056	99.5	261	0
	United People's Party			113	0
	Democratic Party			37	0
	Independents			49	0
Blank ballots		119,556	0.5	–	–
Invalid votes		13,692	–	–	–
Total		24,816,304	100	460	0
Registered voters/turnout		25,098,816	98.9	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

As the other parties and "independents" were in fact subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was, in fact, total.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Andrzej Paczkowski; Jane Cave (2003). The spring will be ours: Poland and the Poles from occupation to freedom. Penn State Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-271-02308-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
↑ Norman Davies (May 2005). God's Playground: 1795 to the present. Columbia University Press. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-231-12819-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.

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