Direct President Election 1990 (First Round)
Candidates %
Lech Walesa 40,0
Stanislaw Tymiński 23,1
Tadeusz Mazowiecki 18,1
Wlodimimierz Cimoszewicz 9,2
Roman Bartoszcze 7,2
Leszek Moczulski 2,5
Direct President Election 1990 (Second Round)
Candidates %
Lech Walesa 74,3
Stanislaw Tymiński 25,7
Direct President Election 1995 (First Round)
Candidates %
Aleksander Kwaśniewski 35,11
Lech Walesa 33,11
Jacek Kuroń 9,22
Jan Olszewski 6,86
Waldemar Pawlak 4,31
Tadeusz Zieliński 3,53
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz 2,76
Janusz Korwin-Mikke 2,40
Direct President Election 1995 (Second Round)
Candidates %
Aleksander Kwaśniewski 51,72
Lech Walesa 48,28
Direct President Election 2000
(First Round ­ second was not necessary,
because Aleksander Kwaśniewski gained more than 50 % of votes)
Candidates %
Aleksander Kwaśniewski 53,9
Andrzej Olechowski 17,3
Marian Krzaklewski 15,6
Jarosław Kalinowski 5,9
Andrzej Lepper 3
Janusz Korwin-Mikke 1,4
Lech Walesa 1
Parliamentary Elections in Poland 1989, 1991 and 1993 - Sejm (Lower House)
1989 (partly competitive) 1991 1993
Parties and Coalitions Percentage
of Seats
Seats Parties and Coalitions Percentage of
Vote
Seats Parties and
Coalitions
Percentage of
Vote
Seats
Polish United Workers Party
(PZPR)
37,6 173 Democratic Union
(UD)
12,3 62 Democratic Left
Alliance (SLD)
20,4 171
Solidarity 35 161 Democratic Left
Alliance (SLD)
12 60 Polish Peoplés
Party (PSL)
15,4 132
United Peasant Party (ZSL) 16,5 76 Polish Peoplés Party
(PSL)
9,2 50 Democratic Union
(UD)
10,6 74
Democratic Party (SD) 5,9 27 Confederation for an
Independent Poland
(KPN)
8,9 51 Union of Labour
(UP)
7,3 41
Three small satellite associations of
PZPR
5 23 Catholic Electoral
Action (WAK,
coalition several
catholic parties)
9 50 Confederation for
an Independent
Poland (KPN)
5,8 22
Centre
Citizens´Alliance
(POC)
8,7 44 Non-Party Bloc for
Support of the
Reforms (BBWR)
5,4 16
Liberal Democratic
Congress (KLD)
7,5 37 German Minority
(MN)
0,7 4
Peoplés Accord
(PSL-PL)
5,5 28 Fatherland Catholic
Election Committee
6,4 -
Solidarity (trade
union)
5,1 27 Solidarity (trade
union)
4,9 -
Beer Lover´s Party
(PPPP)
3 16 Centre Alliance
(PC)
4,4 -
Liberal Democratic
Congress (KLD)
4 -
Union of Real
Politic (UPR)
3,2 -
Note: for elections 1991 and 1993 only parties with more than 3 % of the votes.
Parliamentary Elections in Poland 1997- Sejm (Lower House)
1997
Parties and Coalitions Percentage of
Vote
Seats
Solidarity Electoral
Action (AWS)
33,9 201
Democratic Left
Alliance (SLD)
27,1 164
Freedom Union (UW) 13,3 60
Polish Peoplés Party
(PSL)
7,3 27
Movement for
Revitalisation of
Poland (ROP)
5,6 6
German Minority
(MN)
0,4 2
Union of Labour (UP) 4,7 -
Parliamentary Elections 2001 and 2005 - http://www.parties-and-elections.de/poland.html
President Elections 2005 - http://www.wprost.pl/wyboryprezydenckie2005/; http://www.wprost.pl/wyboryprezydenckie2005_2/
The Orientation Scheme of the Parties and the Two Most Significant Cleavages in the
Polish Party System of the 1990s (four the most important formations) .
Symbolic
Left
Symbolic
Right
Urban and Liberal-
Free Market
Orientation SLD
UW
AWS
Rural and
Protectionist ­
Regulation
Orientation
PSL
The Orientation Scheme of the Parties and the Two Most Significant Cleavages in the
Present Polish Party System
Symbolic
Left
Symbolic
Right
Urban and
Liberal-Free
Market
Orientation
SLD
UP
PO
PiS
Rural and
Protectionist
­Regulation
Orientation
PSL LPR
Self-Defence
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Leszek Balcerowicz
Józef Oleksy
Leszek Miller
Marek Borowski
Jerzy Buzek
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Lech Kaczyński
Andrzej Lepper
Kazimerz Marcinkiewicz
Roman Giertych