Polish legislative election, 1922
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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 5 November 1922, with Senate elections held a week later on 12 November.[1] The elections were governed by the March Constitution of Poland, and saw the Christian Union of National Unity coalition emerge as the largest bloc in the Sejm with 163 of the 444 seats.
The resulting coalitions were unstable, and the situation - difficult from the start, with assassination of Polish president Gabriel Narutowicz in December shortly after the elections - culminated in 1926 with the May Coup.
Results
Sejm
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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Christian Union of National Unity | 2,551,582 | 29.1 | 163 | +23 |
Bloc of National Minorities | 1,398,250 | 16.0 | 66 | +64 |
Polish People's Party "Piast" | 1,153,397 | 13.2 | 70 | +24 |
Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" | 963,385 | 11.0 | 49 | –10 |
Polish Socialist Party | 906,537 | 10.3 | 41 | +6 |
National Workers' Party | 473,676 | 5.4 | 18 | –14 |
Jewish Group | 405,961 | 4.6 | 18 | +7 |
Polish Centre | 259,956 | 3.0 | 6 | – |
Ukrainian Group | 136,044 | 1.6 | 5 | – |
Communist Party | 121,448 | 1.4 | 2 | – |
Radical Peasant Party | 115,515 | 1.3 | 4 | New |
Polish People's Party "Left" | 59,104 | 0.7 | 2 | –10 |
People's Council | 46,317 | 0.5 | 0 | – |
Unia Narodowo-Państwowa | 38,160 | 0.4 | 0 | – |
Centrum Mieszczańskie | 29,653 | 0.3 | 0 | – |
Invalids and Demobilised Soldiers | 11,871 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
Others | 91,842 | 1.0 | 0 | – |
Invalid/blank votes | 58,977 | – | – | – |
Total | 8,821,675 | 100 | 444 | +50 |
Registered voters/turnout | 12,989,718 | 67.9 | – | – |
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
Senate
Party | Votes | % | Seats |
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Christian Union of National Unity | 2,173,756 | 39.1 | 48 |
Bloc of National Minorities | 977,075 | 17.6 | 23 |
Polish People's Party "Piast" | 729,622 | 13.1 | 17 |
Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" | 529,675 | 9.5 | 8 |
Polish Socialist Party | 468,147 | 8.4 | 7 |
National Workers' Party | 291,779 | 5.2 | 3 |
Jewish Group | 179,626 | 3.2 | 4 |
Radical Peasant Party | 56,339 | 1.0 | 0 |
Państwowe Zjednoczenie na Kresach | 55,953 | 1.0 | 1 |
Polish Centre | 55,805 | 1.0 | 0 |
Communist Party | 51,094 | 0.9 | 0 |
Polish People's Party "Left" | 25,362 | 0.5 | 0 |
Związek Rad Ludowych | 10,096 | 0.2 | 0 |
Centrum Mieszczańskie | 3,111 | 0.1 | 0 |
Unia Narodowo-Państwowa | 2,338 | 0.0 | 0 |
Others | 6,713 | 0.1 | 0 |
Invalid/blank votes | 36,838 | – | – |
Total | 5,653,329 | 100 | 111 |
Registered voters/turnout | 9,085,690 | 61.6 | – |
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
References
- ↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
Further reading
- A. J. Groth, Polish Elections 1919-1928, Slavic Review, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Dec., 1965), pp. 653–665 JSTOR