2015 Polish parliamentary election

2015 Polish parliamentary election

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Opinion polls
Registered	30,629,150
Sejm
All 460 seats in the Sejm 231 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	15,595,335 (50.92%) 2.0pp
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Beata Szydło Ewa Kopacz Paweł Kukiz Party PiS PO Kukiz'15 Leader since 22 June 2015[a] 8 November 2014 27 July 2015 Last election 29.89%, 157 seats 39.18%, 207 seats Did not exist Seats won 235 138 42 Seat change 78 69 New Popular vote 5,711,687 3,661,474 1,339,094 Percentage 37.58% 24.09% 8.81% Swing 7.69 pp 15.09 pp New party   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Ryszard Petru Barbara Nowacka Janusz Piechociński Party .N ZL PSL Leader since 31 May 2015 21 July 2015 17 November 2012 Last election Did not exist 18.81%, 67 seats[b] 8.36%, 28 seats Seats won 28 0 16 Seat change New 67 22 Popular vote 1,155,370 1,147,102 779,875 Percentage 7.60% 7.55% 5.13% Swing New party 10.71% 3.23%
Senate
All 100 seats in the Senate 51 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	50.92% 2.0pp
Party Vote % Seats +/– PiS 39.99 61 +30 PO 28.85 34 −29 Independent 10.95 4 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Sejm – results by constituency Sejm – results by gmina Government before Government after Kopacz cabinet PO—PSL Szydło cabinet PiS (ZP)

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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 25 October 2015. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The election was won by the largest opposition party, the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS), with 38% of the vote against the governing Civic Platform (PO), which achieved 24%. Official results, announced on 27 October, gave Law and Justice 235 of the 460 seats, a majority of four.^[2] PiS vice chairwoman Beata Szydło succeeded PO leader Ewa Kopacz as Prime Minister of Poland, heading a one-party cabinet.

It was the first election for a national parliament in Europe since the 1993 Norwegian elections in which the two largest parties were led by a female candidate, and the second election in history (also since the 1993 Norwegian election) where more than three parties fielded female leadership candidates. It was also the first election in Poland since the restoration of full democracy that a party won an absolute majority in the Sejm.

Following PiS's victory in the May 2015 presidential elections, PiS would have control over both the presidency and parliament for the next eight years.

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