Polish parliamentary election, 2007

Polish parliamentary election, 2007

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All 460 seats to the Sejm 231 seats were needed for a majority in the Sejm All 100 seats to the Senate of Poland
Turnout	53.88%
First party Second party   Leader Donald Tusk Jarosław Kaczyński Party PO PiS Leader since 1 June 2003 18 January 2003 Leader's seat 19 – Warsaw I 19 – Warsaw I Last election 133 seats, 24.1% 155 seats, 27% Seats before 131 151 Seats won 209 166 Seat change 78 15 Popular vote 6,701,010 5,183,477 Percentage 41.5% 32.1% Swing 17.4% 5.1%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Aleksander Kwaśniewski Waldemar Pawlak Party LiD PSL Leader since 9 September 2007 29 January 2005 Leader's seat Did not stand 16 – Płock Last election 55 seats, 17.6%* 25 seats, 7% Seats before 55 27 Seats won 53 31 Seat change 2 4 Popular vote 2,122,981 1,437,638 Percentage 13.2% 8.9% Swing 4.4%* 1.9%
Powiats won by ■ – Civic Platform ■ – Law and Justice ■ – Polish People's Party ■ – Left and Democrats *As the sum of LiD's constituent parties, the Democratic Left Alliance, Labour United, Social Democracy of Poland, and the Democratic Party - demokraci.pl.
Prime Minister before election Jarosław Kaczyński PiS Prime Minister-Elect Donald Tusk PO

■ – Civic Platform ■ – Law and Justice
■ – Polish People's Party ■ – Left and Democrats

Jarosław Kaczyński
PiS

Donald Tusk
PO

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 21 October 2007, after the Sejm voted for its own dissolution on 7 September. The election took place two years before the maximum tenure of four years, with the previous elections having been in September 2005. The early elections were a result of serious allegations of massive corruption on the part of Andrzej Lepper, leader of the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland, whose party served as a junior coalition partner to the government of Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński. All 460 seats in the Sejm and all 100 seats in the Senate were up for election.

The election was won by the largest opposition group, Civic Platform (PO), which soundly defeated the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and its allies. Throughout the campaign, polls showed conflicting results as to which of the two parties had the greater support, yet by the closing week the polls had swung in favour of Civic Platform. Three other political groups won election into the Sejm, the centre-left Left and Democrats coalition, the agrarian Polish People's Party, and the tiny German Minority group. Both of Law and Justice's former minor coalition partners, the League of Polish Families and the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland suffered an enormous voter backlash, failing to cross the 5% electoral threshold in order to enter the Sejm. Consequently, both parties lost all of their seats.

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