The self-government elections in Poland 2010 took place on November 21st and the second round on December 5th and in Piechowice on December 19th 2010. The representatives for the 16 Sejmiks , 379 Powiats and 2521 Gminas were elected. The elections consolidated the division of the political landscape in Poland into the four parties Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform) , Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice) , Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (Federation of the Democratic Left) and Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (Polish Peasant Party) . At the same time, non-party candidates were successful at the powiat and community level .
The two largest Polish parties struggled to withdraw during the election campaign. Janusz Palikot resigned from the citizens' platform and founded the Ruch Poparcia party . In terms of justice and justice, prominent members of the party, including MEPs, left. They founded the Polska Jest Najważniejsza party (Poland is the most important) . The problems of law and justice in particular pushed the party's election campaign into the background in the media. Independent electoral groups called for a decoupling of the parties in the local government elections. They accused the party candidates of being too dependent on party headquarters and the associated inability to solve local problems. Paradoxically, the citizens' platform also joined this demand. 75 percent of party-affiliated candidates ran for the Sejmiks; at the Powiat level it was only 56 percent, and at the Gminas level 45 percent.
Election results
Distribution of seats in the Sejmik
The turnout in the first round was 47.32 percent, which was the highest turnout in the history of the Polish municipal elections. She was in the Świętokrzyskie with 53.59 percent at its highest, with 40.99 per cent in the province of Opole lowest. In the second round of voting, the turnout was 35.31 percent. A high percentage of the votes were invalid, for the municipal council elections it was 1.6 percent, for the municipal councils 5 percent, the powiats 8 percent and the Sejmik elections even 12 percent. This corresponded to two million votes cast.
Overall, the citizens' platform improved its position. You could get the most mandates in 13 sejmiks, in the 2006 elections, there were only 10. She could until then in the provinces Lodz , Lesser Poland and Podlasie replace leading law and justice.
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Marcin Waszak and Jarosław Zbieranek, The Polish municipal elections 2010. Conditions, course and results. In: Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen, Poland-Analyzes 82 , January 18, 2011, ISSN 1863-9712 Online: PDF file
