All 460 seats in the Sejm 231 seats were needed for a majority in the Sejm All 100 seats in the Senate
Turnout
47.9%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Marian Krzaklewski
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Leszek Balcerowicz
Party
AWS
SLD
UW
Leader since
8 June 1996
Candidate for PM
April 1995
Leader's seat
Gliwice
Białystok
Katowice
Last election
Did not exist
171 seats, 20.4%
74 seats, 14.6%*
Seats won
201
164
60
Seat change
New
7
14
Popular vote
4,427,373
3,551,224
1,749,518
Percentage
33.8%
27.1%
13.4%
Swing
New
6.7%
1.2%*
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Waldemar Pawlak
Jan Olszewski
Henryk Kroll
Party
PSL
ROP
KWMN
Leader since
29 June 1991
18 November 1995
1991
Leader's seat
Płock
Warsaw
Opole
Last election
132 seats, 15.4%
Did not exist
4 seats, 0.7%
Seats won
27
6
2
Seat change
105
New
2
Popular vote
956,184
727,072
51,027
Percentage
7.3%
5.6%
0.4%
Swing
8.1%
New
0.3%
Seats won by Sejm District
Government before election
Cimoszewicz cabinet [pl]
SLD (SdRP)—PSL
Government after election
Buzek cabinet
AWS—UW
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 21 September 1997.[1] Voter turnout was 48% for the Sejm and Senate elections.
The liberal conservative party Solidarity Electoral Action won the most seats in both chambers of parliament and formed a coalition government 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.
^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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