Polish legislative election, 1928

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4 March 1928 (1928-03-04) (Sejm)
11 March 1928 (1928-03-11) (Senat)

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All 444 seats to the Sejm

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Walery Sławek	Zygmunt Marek	Yitzhak Gruenbaum
Party	BBWR	PPS	BMN
Leader since	November 1927	February 2, 1926 (as chairman of the PPS caucus)	1922
Leader's seat	1 – Warsaw	44 - Nowy Sącz	1 - Warsaw
Last election	Did not exist	41	66
Seats won	125	64	55
Seat change	125	23	11
Popular vote	2,399,438	1,482,097	1,439,568
Percentage	28.8%	13.0%	12.6%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Stanisław Kozicki	Maksymilian Malinowski	Wincenty Witos and Józef Chaciński
Party	ZL-N	PSL "Wyzwolenie"	Polish Catholic Bloc
Leader since	1923	1925	December 1, 1918 (Witos) and January 1927 (Chaciński)
Leader's seat	Senate - Lublin area	27 - Zamość	84 - Tarnów (Witos) no.24 - State list (Chaciński)
Last election	163 (as part of Chjena coalition)	49	Did not exist
Seats won	38	40	34
Seat change	-	9	34
Popular vote	925,570	834,710	770.891
Percentage	8,1%	7,3%	6.8%

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 4 March 1928, with Senate elections held a week later on 11 March. The Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government, a coalition of the Sanation faction - won the highest number of seats in the Sejm (125 out of 444) and 48 out of 111 in the Senate. Unlike latter elections during the Sanation era, opposition parties were allowed to campaign with only a few hindrances, and also gained a significant number of seats. The 1928 election is generally considered the last free election in Poland until 1989 or 1991, depending on the source.

The 1928 elections were the first elections after Józef Piłsudski's May Coup in 1926. Thirty-four parties took part in the 1928 elections. Piłsudski was supported by the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government (BBWR) led by Walery Sławek, which campaigned for a more authoritative government, declaring its total support for Piłsudski and proclaiming itself to be a patriotic, non-partisan and pro-government formation. Other factions in contemporary Polish politics and their primary parties included: the Left, consisting of the Polish Socialist Party of Ignacy Daszyński; the Communist Party, two Polish People's Party factions (the Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" of Jan Woźnicki and Stronnictwo Chłopskie of Jan Dąbski); the Right (endecja, represented by the Popular National Union of Stanisław Głąbiński); the Center, composed of the PSL faction, Christian Democracy of Wojciech Korfanty and the National Workers' Party of Adam Chadzyński; and finally, the Minorities, represented by the Bloc of National Minorities.

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