1997 Polish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 21 September 1997.[1] In the Sejm elections, 47.93% of citizens cast their votes, 96.12% of which were counted as valid. In the Senate elections, 46.92% of citizens cast their votes, 97.82% of which were valid.
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All 460 seats in the Sejm 231 seats were needed for a majority in the Sejm All 100 seats in the Senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The elections were won by the liberal conservative party Solidarity Electoral Action only to lead to a coalition forming with the Freedom Union, another liberal party. The elections were a major setback for the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish People's Party, which were forced out of government.
Opinion polls
Results

Results of the Sejm election, showing vote strength by electoral district.
Sejm
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Solidarity Electoral Action | 4,427,373 | 33.83 | 201 | New | |
Democratic Left Alliance | 3,551,224 | 27.13 | 164 | –7 | |
Freedom Union | 1,749,518 | 13.37 | 60 | –14 | |
Polish People's Party | 956,184 | 7.31 | 27 | –105 | |
Movement for Reconstruction of Poland | 727,072 | 5.56 | 6 | New | |
Labour Union | 620,611 | 4.74 | 0 | –41 | |
National Party of Retirees and Pensioners | 284,826 | 2.18 | 0 | New | |
Real Politics Union | 266,317 | 2.03 | 0 | 0 | |
National Alliance of Retirees and Pensioners | 212,826 | 1.63 | 0 | New | |
National Christian Bloc for Poland | 178,395 | 1.36 | 0 | New | |
German Minority Electoral Committee | 51,027 | 0.39 | 2 | –2 | |
Germans of Katowice Province | 16,724 | 0.13 | 0 | – | |
Słowiańska MN RP-Prawosławni | 13,632 | 0.10 | 0 | – | |
Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland | 10,073 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | |
Polska Wspólnota Narodowa | 8,590 | 0.07 | 0 | – | |
Germans of the Częstochowa Province | 6,206 | 0.05 | 0 | – | |
MN "Pojednanie i Przyszlość" | 3,663 | 0.03 | 0 | – | |
MN Województwa Olsztyńskiego | 1,729 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Niezależna i bezpartyjna | 924 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Sojusz Ludzi "Polska Praca Sprawiedliwość" | 703 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Stow. MN Województwa Elbląskiego | 614 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Total | 13,088,231 | 100.00 | 460 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 13,088,231 | 96.12 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 528,147 | 3.88 | |||
Total votes | 13,616,378 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 28,409,054 | 47.93 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
By constituency
Constituency | Turnout | AWS | SLD | UW | PSL | ROP | UP | MN | Others | Lead |
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1 – Warsaw I | 60.86 | 31.88 | 25.90 | 21.73 | 0.94 | 9.16 | 4.98 | - | 5.41 | 5.98 |
2 – Warsaw II | 49.14 | 40.15 | 19.00 | 15.30 | 5.76 | 8.30 | 4.48 | - | 7.01 | 21.15 |
3 – Biała Podlaska | 46.72 | 35.39 | 19.84 | 5.86 | 18.17 | 6.88 | 4.08 | - | 9.78 | 15.55 |
4 – Białystok | 52.12 | 44.29 | 24.89 | 7.16 | 3.48 | 5.64 | 4.42 | - | 10.12 | 19.40 |
5 – Bielsko-Biała | 56.15 | 43.01 | 21.06 | 15.59 | 4.83 | 4.80 | 3.82 | - | 6.89 | 21.95 |
6 – Bydgoszcz | 48.16 | 27.62 | 36.99 | 11.50 | 6.42 | 4.46 | 4.36 | - | 8.65 | 9.37 |
7 – Chełm | 39.26 | 23.89 | 28.66 | 7.91 | 12.83 | 8.96 | 4.58 | - | 13.17 | 4.77 |
8 – Ciechanów | 38.40 | 28.73 | 29.69 | 6.86 | 14.49 | 6.55 | 5.67 | - | 8.01 | 0.96 |
9 – Częstochowa | 45.01 | 30.60 | 31.36 | 9.84 | 6.48 | 4.82 | 5.37 | - | 11.53 | 0.76 |
10 – Elbląg | 40.97 | 26.26 | 33.92 | 12.70 | 6.42 | 5.97 | 6.15 | - | 8.58 | 7.66 |
11 – Gdańsk | 55.01 | 50.10 | 20.20 | 13.45 | 2.08 | 4.85 | 3.00 | - | 6.32 | 29.90 |
12 – Gorzów Wielkopolski | 42.88 | 25.68 | 35.23 | 14.14 | 8.65 | 3.07 | 6.89 | - | 6.34 | 9.55 |
13 – Jelenia Góra | 44.86 | 27.58 | 35.70 | 12.39 | 3.47 | 3.87 | 9.31 | - | 7.68 | 8.12 |
14 – Kalisz | 48.76 | 26.12 | 32.56 | 11.62 | 12.26 | 4.48 | 6.44 | - | 6.52 | 6.44 |
15 – Sosnowiec | 48.80 | 22.51 | 44.67 | 12.23 | 2.96 | 3.62 | 6.58 | - | 7.43 | 22.16 |
16 – Katowice | 44.53 | 31.99 | 26.92 | 22.52 | 3.11 | 3.26 | 4.39 | - | 7.81 | 5.07 |
17 – Gliwice | 45.63 | 34.77 | 23.10 | 17.30 | 2.65 | 5.04 | 4.41 | - | 11.73 | 10.67 |
18 – Kielce | 41.79 | 24.61 | 31.81 | 10.41 | 14.72 | 5.31 | 5.95 | - | 7.19 | 7.20 |
19 – Konin | 48.76 | 27.66 | 30.56 | 9.63 | 12.51 | 5.03 | 6.14 | - | 8.47 | 2.90 |
20 – Koszalin | 41.70 | 22.22 | 36.11 | 14.22 | 4.35 | 4.33 | 4.92 | - | 13.85 | 13.89 |
21 – Kraków | 53.48 | 40.76 | 17.64 | 20.60 | 4.23 | 4.84 | 3.13 | - | 8.80 | 20.16 |
22 – Krosno | 52.79 | 47.20 | 15.58 | 7.60 | 7.03 | 10.02 | 3.69 | - | 8.88 | 31.62 |
23 – Legnica | 44.35 | 32.49 | 34.88 | 10.75 | 4.80 | 3.93 | 5.47 | - | 7.68 | 2.39 |
24 – Leszno | 47.98 | 25.77 | 33.89 | 12.67 | 11.47 | 2.84 | 5.19 | - | 8.17 | 8.12 |
25 – Lublin | 47.06 | 35.41 | 23.19 | 9.14 | 11.64 | 8.82 | 5,31 | - | 6.49 | 12.22 |
26 – Łomża | 46.41 | 47.13 | 13.96 | 5.47 | 11.43 | 11.02 | 4.26 | - | 6.73 | 33.17 |
27 – Łódź | 50.11 | 28.84 | 37.07 | 14.83 | 1.80 | 6.44 | 4.28 | - | 6.74 | 8.23 |
28 – Nowy Sącz | 56.57 | 56.03 | 10.51 | 9.91 | 7.17 | 3.48 | 2.23 | - | 10.67 | 45.52 |
29 – Olsztyn | 42.49 | 25.86 | 33.40 | 15.16 | 5.68 | 5.61 | 5.74 | - | 8.55 | 7.54 |
30 – Opole | 42.19 | 25.50 | 22.26 | 13.83 | 4.92 | 4.80 | 4.97 | 16.96 | 6.76 | 3.24 |
31 – Ostrołęka | 42.23 | 35.45 | 18.04 | 8.23 | 15.97 | 9.23 | 4.05 | - | 9.03 | 17.41 |
32 – Piła | 49.81 | 22.80 | 40.08 | 12.59 | 7.43 | 4.59 | 3.72 | - | 8.79 | 17.28 |
33 – Piotrków Trybunalski | 42.59 | 28.99 | 26.84 | 9.21 | 14.11 | 7.73 | 4.57 | - | 8.55 | 2.15 |
34 – Płock | 41.29 | 23.15 | 30.79 | 8.38 | 21.26 | 4.82 | 3.73 | - | 7.87 | 7.64 |
35 – Poznań | 53.26 | 26.95 | 31.35 | 18.31 | 4.71 | 3.23 | 6.80 | - | 8.65 | 4.4 |
36 – Przemyśl | 52.15 | 43.78 | 15.44 | 7.85 | 13.64 | 5.13 | 2.70 | - | 11.46 | 28.34 |
37 – Radom | 43.56 | 32.50 | 22.05 | 10.09 | 14.35 | 8.41 | 4.18 | - | 8.42 | 10.45 |
38 – Rzeszów | 59.81 | 57.81 | 13.58 | 6.10 | 9.14 | 5.48 | 2.56 | - | 5.33 | 44.23 |
39 – Siedlce | 40.40 | 34.73 | 20.80 | 6.02 | 20.59 | 6.69 | 3.65 | - | 7.52 | 13.93 |
40 – Sieradz | 42.35 | 24.96 | 29.36 | 8.81 | 16.74 | 5.79 | 6.84 | - | 7.50 | 4.4 |
41 – Skierniewice | 41.78 | 25.49 | 24.51 | 9.65 | 19.58 | 6.60 | 3.80 | - | 10.37 | 0.98 |
42 – Słupsk | 42.46 | 25.97 | 35.05 | 12.83 | 7.22 | 3.94 | 5.69 | - | 9.30 | 9.08 |
43 – Suwałki | 40.80 | 33.34 | 27.04 | 10.57 | 8.99 | 5.38 | 6.05 | - | 8.63 | 6.30 |
44 – Szczecin | 45.16 | 28.24 | 34.87 | 17.28 | 3.09 | 3.55 | 5.07 | - | 7.90 | 6.63 |
45 – Tarnobrzeg | 46.44 | 39.29 | 23.73 | 7.11 | 11.60 | 8.00 | 2.80 | - | 7.47 | 15.56 |
46 – Tarnów | 53.68 | 51.48 | 12.20 | 9.19 | 11.91 | 4.88 | 3.47 | - | 6.87 | 39.28 |
47 – Toruń | 43.91 | 28.41 | 32.71 | 14.09 | 7.16 | 4.49 | 5.28 | - | 7.86 | 4.3 |
48 – Wałbrzych | 45.31 | 27.69 | 38.36 | 11.65 | 3.86 | 3.98 | 6.68 | - | 7.78 | 10.67 |
49 – Włocławek | 40.41 | 25.16 | 38.35 | 7.42 | 10.83 | 5.87 | 6.19 | - | 6.18 | 13.19 |
50 – Wrocław | 60.86 | 33.02 | 25.96 | 20.65 | 4.04 | 5.08 | 4.57 | - | 6.68 | 7.06 |
51 – Zamość | 46.05 | 33.43 | 18.95 | 5.26 | 24.58 | 8.45 | 3.35 | - | 5.98 | 8.85 |
52 – Zielona Góra | 44.90 | 28.59 | 37.37 | 11.70 | 6.87 | 3.20 | 5.73 | - | 6.54 | 8.78 |
Poland | 47.93 | 33.83 | 27.13 | 13.37 | 7.31 | 5.56 | 4.74 | 0.39 | 7.67 | 6.70 |
Senate
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Solidarity Electoral Action | 6,550,176 | 25.25 | 51 | New | |
Democratic Left Alliance | 6,091,721 | 23.48 | 28 | –9 | |
Freedom Union | 2,943,527 | 11.35 | 8 | +4 | |
Polish People's Party | 1,819,176 | 7.01 | 3 | –33 | |
Movement for Reconstruction of Poland | 2,553,252 | 9.84 | 5 | New | |
Labour Union | 520,130 | 2.00 | 0 | 0 | |
National Party of Retirees and Pensioners | 1,112,129 | 4.29 | 0 | New | |
Real Politics Union | 550,254 | 2.12 | 0 | 0 | |
Local lists | 3,804,084 | 14.66 | 5 | –5 | |
Total | 25,944,449 | 100.00 | 100 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 13,317,952 | 98.02 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 269,149 | 1.98 | |||
Total votes | 13,587,101 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 28,409,054 | 47.83 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
References
- Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Obwieszczenie Państwowej Komisji Wyborczej z dn. 25 IX 1997 r., Monitor Polski. Nr 64, poz. 620
- Obwieszczenie PKW z dn. 25 IX 1997 r., M.P. Nr 64, poz. 621
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