1976 Polish legislative election

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.

1976 Polish legislative election
21 March 1976
All 460 seats in the Sejm
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Edward Gierek Stanisław Gucwa Andrzej Benesz
Party PZPR ZSL SD
Leader since 20 December 1970 1971 1973
Last election 255 seats 117 seats 39 seats
Seats won 261 113 37
Seat change 6 4 2

Results
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Front of National UnityPolish United Workers' Party23,502,98399.4261+6
United People's Party113–4
Democratic Party37–2
Independents490
Blank ballots134,3500.6––
Invalid votes14,923–––
Total23,652,2561004600
Registered voters/turnout24,069,57998.3––
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.
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