All 460 seats in the Sejm 231 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered
29,532,595
Turnout
21,966,891 (74.4%) 12.7pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Mateusz Morawiecki[a]
Donald Tusk
Szymon Hołownia Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
Party
PiS
PO
PL2050 / PSL
Alliance
United Right
Civic Coalition
Third Way
Last election
235 seats, 43.6%
134 seats, 27.4%
30 seats, 8.6%
Seats won
194
157
65
Seat change
41
23
35
Popular vote
7,640,854
6,629,402
3,110,670
Percentage
35.4%
30.7%
14.4%
Swing
8.2pp
3.3pp
5.8pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Leader
Włodzimierz Czarzasty Robert Biedroń
Sławomir Mentzen Krzysztof Bosak
Party
NL
NN / RN
Alliance
The Left
Confederation
Last election
49 seats, 12.6%
11 seats, 6.8%
Seats won
26
18
Seat change
23
7
Popular vote
1,859,018
1,547,364
Percentage
8.6%
7.2%
Swing
4.0pp
0.4pp
Government before election
Second Morawiecki cabinet
PiS (ZP)
Government after election
Third Tusk cabinet[b]
KO—PL2050—PSL—NL
The 2023 Polish parliamentary election took place on Sunday, 15 October 2023, per the Polish Constitution. Seats in both the lower house, the Sejm, and the Senate were contested. At the polls, a referendum - containing four questions concerning economic and immigration policy of the government - was also voted on.
In the previous 2019 Polish parliamentary election, the ruling right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) had held onto its majority in the Sejm with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki forming a second government. The PiS sought to win a third term which would be unprecedented in Polish history. The opposition, including the Civic Platform Party and others, secured a Senate majority. In the lead-up to the 2023 elections, opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, led the Civic Coalition political alliance in opposition to the PiS.
The United Right alliance placed first for the third straight election and won a plurality of seats but fell short of a Sejm majority. The opposition, consisting of the Civic Coalition, Third Way, and The Left, achieved a combined total vote of 54%, managing to form a majority coalition government.[1][2] In the Senate, the opposition electoral alliance Senate Pact 2023 won a plurality of the vote and a majority of seats. Voter turnout was 74.4%, the highest in contested elections and the highest since the fall of the communist Polish People's Republic, beating previous records set in 1989 and 2019.
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