Parliamentary elections in Poland in 1989

The parliamentary elections in Poland in 1989 took place on June 4th and 18th, 1989. In the elections, the members of the Polish parliament were newly elected in two chambers (in the Sejm and in the re-established Senate ), for the first time in the People's Republic of Poland after the Second World War in partially free elections.

Electoral system

According to the key agreed during the round table negotiations, the seats in the Sejm were 65 percent for the Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (PVAP) and its bloc parties, 35 percent (161 of 460 seats) for free elections (for so-called "independent" candidates ) while the Senate election was unrestricted.

Election result

Election results of the "Solidarność Citizens' Committee"

All of the 161 freely chosen seats in the Sejm were won by candidates from the Solidarność Citizens' Committee , the political organization of the Solidarność trade union , which also won 99 of the 100 possible seats in the Senate. Of the total of 261 candidates of the “Solidarność Citizens' Committee” (only one candidate per freely assigned mandate), only one Senate candidate was not elected.

Web links

Commons : Parliamentary Elections in Poland 1989  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Antoni Dudek: Wybory czerwcowe. Encyklopedia Solidarności

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Bingen : Pioneer of the upheaval in the Eastern Bloc From Solidarność to Martial Law (1980–1981) , Federal Agency for Civic Education , February 10, 2009.