Voter turnout for the 2001 election was 46.29%[2] For this election only, list seats were allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method instead of the D'Hondt method.
At the end of its four-year term, the ruling AWS government of Prime MinisterJerzy Buzek faced bleak prospects for the September parliamentary election. In the previous presidential election in 2000, the SLD's Aleksander Kwaśniewski achieved a landslide reelection over AWS candidate Marian Krzaklewski. Economically, Polish consumer confidence dropped to its lowest since the mid-1990s, with unemployment rising above 16%.[3] Politically, the Buzek government faced a series of crises undermining its credibility. In May 2000, the AWS' junior coalition partner, the Freedom Union, walked out of the government regarding the party's objections to the slow pace of reform, forcing Buzek to set up a relatively weak minority government in its place.[4] Later in July 2001, Buzek's government was again hit by three further ministerial resignations over corruption charges, while the government's reform program for pensions and health care grounded to a halt in the Sejm.[3]
In light of Buzek's besieged administration, opposition parties took advantage of AWS' organisational and economic weaknesses. From the centre left, a political coalition between the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the Labour Union (UP), headed by Leszek Miller, appeared as the ruling government's most formidable, united and vocal opposition. On the centre right, Solidarity's traditional spectrum of support increasingly became divided by the emergence of new political groups. Civic Platform (PO), composed of former AWS and UW members, repeated calls for a low flat-rate income tax and a culling of bureaucracy to attract investment.[3] Further down the right, the Law and Justice party (PiS), composed of AWS' more conservative and anti-communist adherents, campaigned on promises of tough anti-corruption and organised crime legislation.[3]
The campaign leading up to the September election was marred by voter apathy due to the summer holidays, and was also marginalized by the September 11 attacks in the United States.[5]
Powiats with party majority ■ – Democratic Left Alliance ■ – Polish People's Party ■ – Civic Platform ■ – Solidarity Electoral Action ■ – League of Polish Families ■ – German Minority
Results of the Sejm election, showing vote strength by electoral district. SLD won a plurality in all 41 constituencies.
The SLD triumphed in the final tally, receiving 41% percent of the vote, though shy of an outright parliamentary majority in the Sejm.[6] The party increased its representation by 52 seats, earning it 216 representatives, and returned to the Chancellery after a four-year period of sitting in opposition. Partly due to the fractious nature of its opponents, the SLD secured pluralities in all of Poland's voivodeships as well as in an overwhelming majority of the nation's powiats. On the centre right, Civic Platform entered parliament for the first time, coming in second place with nearly 13% of the vote.[6] The party stood relatively strong in Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Law and Justice (PiS), headed by Lech Kaczyński, a former Minister of Justice in the Buzek government, scored 44 seats and 9.5% of the vote, also securing his party's entrance into the Sejm for the first time. The Polish People's Party (PSL) won 42 seats, slightly reversing the party's devastating losses from 1997. The PSL would later enter into coalition with the SLD to achieve a parliamentary majority.
The election proved catastrophic for Solidarity Electoral Action and its former coalition partner, Freedom Union. Both parties failed to secure the 8% for coalitions and 5% for standalone parties threshold to enter the Sejm, with AWS and UW falling to 5.6% and 3.1%, respectively.[6] In the election's aftermath, Prime Minister Buzek tendered his resignation. Both the AWS and UW faced political extinction following the election's aftermath. The AWS dissolved itself by the end of 2001; the UW lingered until its own dissolution in 2005.
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^ abcd"The end of Solidarity". The Economist. 16 August 2001. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
^"Poland sets up minority government". BBC News. 6 June 2000. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
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^ abc"Left victorious in Poland". BBC News. 24 September 2001. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
^ ab"The left is back—in the centre". The Economist. 27 September 2001. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
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Parliamentary elections was held in Poland on 23 September 2001 to elect deputies to both houses of the National Assembly 1 The election concluded with an overwhelming victory for the centre left Democratic Left Alliance Labor Union the electoral coalition between the Democratic Left Alliance SLD and the Labour Union UP which captured 41 of the vote in the crucial lower house Sejm The 2001 election is recognized as marking the emergence of both Civic Platform PO and Law and Justice PiS as players in Polish politics while also witnessing the outright collapse of the Solidarity Electoral Action AWS and its former coalition partner the Freedom Union UW 2001 Polish parliamentary election 1997 23 September 2001 2005 All 460 seats in the Sejm 231 seats were needed for a majority in the Sejm All 100 seats in the SenateTurnout46 29 First party Second party Third party Leader Leszek Miller Maciej Plazynski Andrzej LepperParty SLD UP PO SRPLeader s seat 9 Lodz 25 Gdansk 40 KoszalinLast election 164 seats 34 1 Did not exist 0 seats 0 1 Seats won 216 65 53Seat change 52 65 53Popular vote 5 342 519 1 651 099 1 327 624Percentage 41 0 12 7 10 2 Swing 6 9 12 7 10 1 Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party Leader Lech Kaczynski Jaroslaw Kalinowski Marek KotlinowskiParty PiS PSL LPRLeader s seat 25 Gdansk 18 Siedlce 13 Krakow IILast election Did not exist 27 seats 7 3 Did not existSeats won 44 42 38Seat change 44 15 38Popular vote 1 236 787 1 168 659 1 025 148Percentage 9 5 9 0 7 9 Swing 9 5 1 7 7 9 Seats won by Sejm DistrictPrime Minister before electionJerzy BuzekAWS New Prime Minister Leszek MillerSLDVoter turnout for the 2001 election was 46 29 2 For this election only list seats were allocated using the Sainte Lague method instead of the D Hondt method Contents 1 Background 2 Opinion polls 3 Results 3 1 Sejm 3 2 By constituency 3 3 Seat distribution in each constituency 3 4 Senate 4 ReferencesBackground EditAt the end of its four year term the ruling AWS government of Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek faced bleak prospects for the September parliamentary election In the previous presidential election in 2000 the SLD s Aleksander Kwasniewski achieved a landslide reelection over AWS candidate Marian Krzaklewski Economically Polish consumer confidence dropped to its lowest since the mid 1990s with unemployment rising above 16 3 Politically the Buzek government faced a series of crises undermining its credibility In May 2000 the AWS junior coalition partner the Freedom Union walked out of the government regarding the party s objections to the slow pace of reform forcing Buzek to set up a relatively weak minority government in its place 4 Later in July 2001 Buzek s government was again hit by three further ministerial resignations over corruption charges while the government s reform program for pensions and health care grounded to a halt in the Sejm 3 In light of Buzek s besieged administration opposition parties took advantage of AWS organisational and economic weaknesses From the centre left a political coalition between the Democratic Left Alliance SLD and the Labour Union UP headed by Leszek Miller appeared as the ruling government s most formidable united and vocal opposition On the centre right Solidarity s traditional spectrum of support increasingly became divided by the emergence of new political groups Civic Platform PO composed of former AWS and UW members repeated calls for a low flat rate income tax and a culling of bureaucracy to attract investment 3 Further down the right the Law and Justice party PiS composed of AWS more conservative and anti communist adherents campaigned on promises of tough anti corruption and organised crime legislation 3 The campaign leading up to the September election was marred by voter apathy due to the summer holidays and was also marginalized by the September 11 attacks in the United States 5 Opinion polls EditMain article Opinion polling for the Polish parliamentary election 2001Results Edit Powiats with party majority Democratic Left Alliance Polish People s Party Civic Platform Solidarity Electoral Action League of Polish Families German Minority Results of the Sejm election showing vote strength by electoral district SLD won a plurality in all 41 constituencies The SLD triumphed in the final tally receiving 41 percent of the vote though shy of an outright parliamentary majority in the Sejm 6 The party increased its representation by 52 seats earning it 216 representatives and returned to the Chancellery after a four year period of sitting in opposition Partly due to the fractious nature of its opponents the SLD secured pluralities in all of Poland s voivodeships as well as in an overwhelming majority of the nation s powiats On the centre right Civic Platform entered parliament for the first time coming in second place with nearly 13 of the vote 6 The party stood relatively strong in Pomeranian Voivodeship Surprisingly ultra nationalist parties performed well in the election s final results The left wing nationalist Self Defence of the Republic of Poland SRP increased its vote 100 fold from the 1997 election securing 53 seats and 10 of the vote coming in third place Headed by populist Andrzej Lepper the party campaigned against Warsaw excess and Poland s ongoing negotiations to enter the European Union 7 On the far right the League of Polish Families which campaigned on a staunchly Catholic and anti EU platform also entered the Sejm for the first time gaining 38 seats and 8 of the vote 7 Law and Justice PiS headed by Lech Kaczynski a former Minister of Justice in the Buzek government scored 44 seats and 9 5 of the vote also securing his party s entrance into the Sejm for the first time The Polish People s Party PSL won 42 seats slightly reversing the party s devastating losses from 1997 The PSL would later enter into coalition with the SLD to achieve a parliamentary majority The election proved catastrophic for Solidarity Electoral Action and its former coalition partner Freedom Union Both parties failed to secure the 8 for coalitions and 5 for standalone parties threshold to enter the Sejm with AWS and UW falling to 5 6 and 3 1 respectively 6 In the election s aftermath Prime Minister Buzek tendered his resignation Both the AWS and UW faced political extinction following the election s aftermath The AWS dissolved itself by the end of 2001 the UW lingered until its own dissolution in 2005 Sejm Edit PartyVotes Seats Democratic Left Alliance Labour Union5 342 51941 04216 52Civic Platform1 651 09912 6865NewSelf Defence of the Republic of Poland1 327 62410 2053 53Law and Justice1 236 7879 5044NewPolish People s Party1 168 6598 9842 15League of Polish Families1 025 1487 8738NewSolidarity Electoral Action729 2075 600 201Freedom Union404 0743 100 60Social Alternative Movement54 2660 420NewGerman Minority Electoral Committee47 2300 3620Polish Socialist Party13 4590 100NewGerman Minority Upper Silesia8 0240 0600Polish Economic Union7 1890 060NewPolska Wspolnota Narodowa2 6440 020NewTotal13 017 929100 004600Valid votes13 017 92996 01Invalid blank votes541 4833 99Total votes13 559 412100 00Registered voters turnout29 364 45546 18Source Nohlen amp StoverBy constituency Edit Constituency Turnout SLD PO SRP PiS PSL LPR AWSP UW MN Others Lead1 Legnica 43 50 53 69 10 50 9 42 7 03 5 81 5 89 4 07 3 19 0 40 43 192 Walbrzych 43 89 52 68 11 74 10 91 4 67 5 48 6 48 4 24 3 27 0 55 40 943 Wroclaw 46 92 39 15 17 83 9 51 10 26 4 74 7 86 5 21 5 00 0 45 21 324 Bydgoszcz 46 53 50 37 8 97 9 57 7 38 7 85 8 16 4 97 2 27 0 46 40 805 Torun 42 68 47 36 9 59 12 05 6 98 8 86 7 61 4 23 2 64 0 67 35 316 Lublin 48 09 34 27 8 48 13 31 9 42 17 27 9 91 4 50 2 18 0 66 17 007 Chelm 46 65 34 58 5 91 15 86 5 23 21 38 11 30 3 85 1 49 0 40 13 208 Zielona Gora 42 58 51 54 9 81 9 60 5 66 7 49 5 44 5 99 3 36 1 10 41 739 Lodz 48 54 52 19 12 10 6 69 9 88 2 35 7 34 5 70 3 22 0 52 40 0910 Piotrkow Trybunalski 44 73 39 70 8 33 15 90 6 32 14 91 7 49 4 80 1 63 0 93 23 8011 Sieradz 46 17 41 05 7 84 17 76 5 77 13 87 7 51 3 85 1 59 0 75 23 2912 Chrzanow 48 27 35 24 14 09 8 38 9 87 9 30 11 54 8 16 2 84 0 57 21 1513 Krakow 50 50 33 67 18 15 6 89 16 03 5 11 9 66 4 39 5 84 0 25 15 5214 Nowy Sacz 47 95 23 32 19 13 7 98 11 68 10 86 11 44 12 80 2 04 0 75 4 1915 Tarnow 46 59 25 56 13 77 10 05 9 77 17 40 13 02 7 87 2 22 0 33 8 1616 Plock 42 11 41 21 7 70 13 04 7 48 17 04 5 67 5 27 1 98 0 61 24 1717 Radom 43 66 34 38 10 64 13 54 8 00 18 10 7 71 5 47 1 59 0 58 16 2818 Siedlce 45 65 30 06 7 60 14 19 8 42 22 95 9 67 4 94 1 60 0 56 7 1119 Warsaw I 56 11 36 77 18 87 3 05 21 57 1 62 7 12 4 02 6 58 0 40 15 2020 Warsaw II 45 15 30 76 16 05 8 26 18 12 8 95 9 38 4 90 3 15 0 45 12 6421 Opole 39 83 38 84 11 97 11 01 5 33 5 08 6 62 3 66 3 09 13 62 0 78 25 2222 Krosno 47 28 31 62 7 02 12 27 8 79 15 90 11 89 10 29 1 75 0 48 15 7223 Rzeszow 49 14 31 19 8 86 10 14 8 41 13 78 15 78 9 90 1 36 0 58 15 4124 Bialystok 44 79 37 91 8 42 12 04 11 51 10 96 11 79 4 89 1 87 0 61 25 8725 Gdansk 47 56 34 58 25 82 6 38 15 95 3 39 5 90 4 91 2 83 0 23 8 7626 Gdynia 47 32 36 46 24 92 9 21 9 30 4 96 7 87 4 27 2 69 0 32 11 5427 Bielsko Biala 51 06 38 30 13 80 7 91 9 87 5 65 9 83 10 21 3 79 0 65 24 5028 Czestochowa 46 84 47 03 11 70 10 61 7 89 7 14 5 48 6 99 2 37 0 79 35 3329 Gliwice 39 26 44 39 13 62 6 09 9 81 3 01 5 48 8 44 5 33 3 84 30 7730 Rybnik 42 88 40 16 18 04 7 10 9 61 4 15 5 97 7 55 4 23 2 09 1 08 22 1231 Katowice 44 90 44 60 16 43 5 55 12 44 2 01 13 34 4 60 1 03 28 1732 Sosnowiec 48 53 62 40 8 45 6 84 6 66 3 86 3 97 4 23 2 71 0 86 53 9533 Kielce 44 17 45 08 7 16 12 81 6 73 15 07 6 24 3 68 1 80 1 41 30 0134 Elblag 42 03 47 89 10 35 12 71 6 36 9 06 6 69 2 72 3 86 0 35 35 1835 Olsztyn 40 16 47 22 11 64 9 63 7 87 6 94 8 57 3 97 3 48 0 67 35 5836 Kalisz 49 99 47 31 10 16 12 77 4 06 12 00 7 49 3 75 1 93 0 54 34 5437 Konin 47 82 48 07 8 88 13 76 4 78 11 33 5 66 5 15 1 80 0 56 34 3138 Pila 49 12 48 34 10 47 11 74 4 62 10 55 6 64 4 55 2 68 0 43 36 6039 Poznan 52 27 41 99 20 29 5 08 12 81 2 98 7 22 4 26 4 97 0 49 21 7040 Koszalin 43 75 47 16 10 15 22 77 3 73 4 11 4 45 4 06 3 01 0 56 24 3941 Szczecin 43 40 50 58 12 56 10 24 8 28 3 75 5 77 4 24 4 26 0 32 38 02Poland 46 29 41 04 12 68 10 20 9 50 8 98 7 87 5 60 3 10 0 36 0 66 28 36Seat distribution in each constituency Edit Constituency SLD PO SRP PiS PSL LPR MN Sum1 Legnica 7 1 1 1 1 1 122 Walbrzych 6 1 1 1 93 Wroclaw 6 3 1 2 1 1 144 Bydgoszcz 7 1 1 1 1 1 125 Torun 7 1 2 1 1 1 136 Lublin 5 1 2 2 3 2 157 Chelm 5 1 2 3 1 128 Zielona Gora 7 1 1 1 1 1 129 Lodz 6 2 1 1 1 1110 Piotrkow Trybunalski 4 1 2 1 1 911 Sieradz 5 1 2 1 2 1 1212 Chrzanow 3 1 1 1 1 713 Krakow 5 3 1 2 1 2 1414 Nowy Sacz 3 2 1 1 1 1 915 Tarnow 2 1 1 1 2 1 816 Plock 5 1 1 1 2 1017 Radom 3 1 1 1 2 1 918 Siedlce 4 1 2 1 3 1 1219 Warsaw I 8 4 5 2 1920 Warsaw II 3 2 1 2 1 1 1021 Opole 5 2 2 1 1 2 1322 Krosno 4 1 2 1 2 1 1123 Rzeszow 5 2 2 1 2 3 1524 Bialystok 6 1 2 2 2 2 1525 Gdansk 5 3 1 2 1 1226 Gdynia 6 4 1 1 1 1 1427 Bielsko Biala 4 2 1 1 1 928 Czestochowa 4 1 1 1 729 Gliwice 6 2 1 1 1030 Rybnik 5 2 1 1 931 Katowice 7 3 1 2 1332 Sosnowiec 7 1 1 933 Kielce 8 1 2 1 3 1 1634 Elblag 5 1 1 1 835 Olsztyn 5 1 1 1 1 936 Kalisz 6 1 2 2 1 1237 Konin 5 1 2 1 938 Pila 5 1 1 1 1 939 Poznan 5 2 2 1 1040 Koszalin 5 1 2 841 Szczecin 7 2 2 1 1 13Total 216 65 53 44 42 38 2 460Senate Edit PartyVotes Seats Democratic Left Alliance Labour Union10 476 67738 7475 47Senate 20016 582 22424 3415 Polish People s Party3 631 23413 434 1Self Defence of the Republic of Poland1 158 8874 292 League of Polish Families1 097 0584 062NewReal Politics Union469 8151 7400Local lists3 624 69713 402 3Total27 040 592100 001000Valid votes13 072 32396 46Invalid blank votes479 1793 54Total votes13 551 502100 00Registered voters turnout29 364 45546 15Source Nohlen amp StoverReferences Edit Dieter Nohlen amp Philip Stover 2010 Elections in Europe A data handbook p1491 ISBN 978 3 8329 5609 7 Wybory do Sejmu ogolne dane statystyczne Wybory do Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 23 wrzesnia 2001 Panstwowa Komisja Wyborcza Retrieved 30 May 2012 a b c d The end of Solidarity The Economist 16 August 2001 Retrieved 30 May 2012 Poland sets up minority government BBC News 6 June 2000 Retrieved 30 May 2012 Szczerbiak Aleks 1 September 2002 Poland s Unexpected Political Earthquake The September 2001 Parliamentary Election Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 18 3 41 76 doi 10 1080 714003608 a b c Left victorious in Poland BBC News 24 September 2001 Retrieved 30 May 2012 a b The left is back in the centre The Economist 27 September 2001 Retrieved 30 May 2012 Obwieszczenie Panstwowej Komisji Wyborczej z dn 26 IX 1997 r Monitor Polski Nr 109 poz 1186 Obwieszczenie PKW z dn 26 IX 2001 r Dz U Nr 109 poz 1187 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2001 Polish parliamentary election amp oldid 1091735676, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
