Polish legislative election, 1980

Polish legislative election, 1980

23 March 1980

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

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.