Polish legislative election, 1976

Polish legislative election, 1976

21 March 1976

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 255 seats, 55% 117 seats, 25.4% Seats won 261 113 Seat change +6 -4 Percentage 56.7% 24.6% Swing 0 0   Third party Fourth party   Leader Independent Andrzej Benesz Party Independent SD Leader since – 1973 Last election 49 39 Seats won 49 37 Seat change 0 -2 Percentage 10.7% 8% Swing 0 0

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 21 March 1976.^[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, and from the 1985 election.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Front of National Unity	Polish United Workers' Party	23,502,983	99.4	261	+6
	United People's Party			113	–4
	Democratic Party			37	–2
	Independents			49	0
Blank ballots		134,350	0.6	–	–
Invalid votes		14,923	–	–	–
Total		23,652,256	100	460	0
Registered voters/turnout		24,069,579	98.3	–	–
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. 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.
3. 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.