Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 30 May 1965.[1] They were the fourth elections to the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland, and fifth in Communist Poland. They took place on 30 May. The lists admitted were controlled by the Front of National Unity (FJN), in turn controlled by the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR).
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The distribution of seats was decided before the elections by the FJN, with voters having no possibility to change it. The results of the 1965 election would be exactly duplicated by the 1969 and 1972 elections.
Results
editOf the 49 independents, five were affiliated with Znak, five with the PAX Association and three with the Christian Social Association.[2] As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total.[3][4]
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| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |||
| Front of National Unity | Polish United Workers' Party | 18,742,152 | 98.81 | 255 | –1 | ||
| United People's Party | 117 | 0 | |||||
| Democratic Party | 39 | 0 | |||||
| Independents | 49 | +1 | |||||
| Blank ballots | 226,324 | 1.19 | – | – | |||
| Total | 18,968,476 | 100.00 | 460 | 0 | |||
| Valid votes | 18,968,476 | 99.93 | |||||
| Invalid votes | 13,840 | 0.07 | |||||
| Total votes | 18,982,316 | 100.00 | |||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 19,645,803 | 96.62 | |||||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||||
References
edit- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ "Archive of data on MPs. 1965-1969 - IV". Sejm.
- ^ Andrzej Paczkowski; Jane Cave (2003). The spring will be ours: Poland and the Poles from occupation to freedom. Penn State Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-271-02308-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ Norman Davies (May 2005). God's Playground: 1795 to the present. Columbia University Press. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-231-12819-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
Further reading
edit- Jerzy Drygalski, Jacek Kwasniewski, No-Choice Elections, Soviet Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 295–315, JSTOR
- George Sakwa, Martin Crouch, Sejm Elections in Communist Poland: An Overview and a Reappraisal, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Oct., 1978), pp. 403–424, JSTOR
- Informacja o dziatalnoici Sejmu PRL. (IV kadencja 1965-1969) (Warsaw: Sejm Chancellory Publications, 1969),
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