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Polish legislative election, 1980

Polish legislative election, 1980
Poland
← 1976 23 March 1980 (1980-03-23) 1985 →

All 460 seats in the Sejm
  Majority party Minority party
  Edward Gierek - portrait from 1976.jpg
Leader Edward Gierek Stanisław Gucwa
Party PZPR United People's Party
Leader since December 20, 1970 1971
Last election 261 seats, 56.7% 117 seats, 25.4%
Seats won 261 113
Seat change 0 0
Percentage 56.7% 24.6%
Swing 0 0

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Independent Tadeusz Witold Młyńczak
Party Independent SD
Leader since 1976
Last election 49 37
Seats won 49 37
Seat change 0 0
Percentage 10.7% 8%
Swing 0 0

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 23 March 1980. The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1976 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1980 election, and were only marginally different from those of the preceding years. The election of 1985 once again produced only marginally different results.

As the other parties and "independents" were in fact subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was, in fact, total.



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