Polish legislative election, 1969

Polish legislative election, 1969

1 June 1969

All 460 seats in the Sejm   Majority party Minority party   Leader Władysław Gomułka Czesław Wycech Party PZPR United People's Party Leader since October 21, 1956 1962 Last election 255 seats, 55% 117 seats, 25.4% Seats won 255 117 Seat change 0 0 Percentage 55.4% 25.4% Swing 0 0   Third party Fourth party   Leader Independent Stanisław Kulczyński Party Independent SD Leader since – 1956 Last election 49 39 Seats won 49 39 Seat change 0 0 Percentage 10.7% 8.5% Swing 0 0

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 1 June 1969.^[1] The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1965 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1969 and 1972 elections.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Front of National Unity	Polish United Workers' Party	20,473,114	99.2	255	0
	United People's Party			117	0
	Democratic Party			39	0
	Independents			49	0
Blank ballots		161,569	0.8	–	–
Invalid votes		7,766	–	–	–
Total		20,642,449	100	460	0
Registered voters/turnout		21,148,879	97.6	–	–
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

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. 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.
3. 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.