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1989 Polish parliamentary election
← 1985
4 June 1989 (1989-06-04) (first round) 18 June 1989 (1989-06-18) (second round)
1991 →
All 460 seats in the Sejm231 needed for a majority161 up for free electionAll 100 seats in the Senate
Turnout
62.7% (first round) 25% (second round)
Majority party
Minority party
Third party
Leader
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Lech Wałęsa
Roman Malinowski
Party
PZPR
KO "S"
ZSL
Leader since
18 October 1981
18 December 1988 (of political party)
1981
Last election
255 seats
Outlawed
117 seats
Seats won
173 (Sejm)0 (Senate)
161 (Sejm)99 (Senate)
76 (Sejm)0 (Senate)
Seat change
72
New
41
Popular vote
22,734,348
16,369,237
8,865,102
Percentage
37.6%
35.0%
16.5%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Tadeusz Witold Młyńczak
Zenon Komender
Kazimierz Morawski
Party
SD
PAX
UChS
Leader since
1976
1982
1989
Last election
39 seats
9
—
Seats won
27 (Sejm)0 (Senate)
10 (Sejm)0 (Senate)
8 (Sejm)0 (Senate)
Seat change
12
1
New
Popular vote
3,961,124
1,216,681
907,901
Percentage
5.8%
2.1%
1.7%
Results by constituency, shaded according to the winner's vote share in the competitive seats in each district. Solidarity won all of the 161 competitive races.
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland in 1989 to elect members of the Sejm and the recreated Senate. The first round took place on 4 June with a second round on 18 June. They were the first elections in the country since the Communist Polish United Workers Party abandoned its monopoly of power in April 1989.
Not all parliamentary seats were contested, but the resounding victory of the Solidarity opposition in the freely contested races paved the way to the end of communist rule in Poland. Solidarity won all of the freely contested seats in the Sejm, and all but one seat in the entirely freely contested Senate. In the aftermath of the elections, Poland became the first country of the Eastern Bloc in which democratically elected representatives gained real power.[1] Although the elections were not entirely democratic, they led to the formation of a government led by Tadeusz Mazowiecki and a peaceful transition to democracy in Poland and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe.[2][3][4]
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