Polish legislative election, 1969

1 June 1969 (1969-06-01)

All 460 seats in the Sejm

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Władysław Gomułka	Czesław Wycech
Party	PZPR	United People's Party
Leader since	October 21, 1956	1962
Last election	255 seats, 55%	117 seats, 25.4%
Seats won	255	117
Seat change	0	0
Percentage	55.4%	25.4%
Swing	0	0

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Independent	Stanisław Kulczyński
Party	Independent	SD
Leader since	–	1956
Last election	49	39
Seats won	49	39
Seat change	0	0
Percentage	10.7%	8.5%
Swing	0	0

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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 1 June 1969.^[1] The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1965 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1969 and 1972 elections.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Front of National Unity	Polish United Workers' Party	20,473,114	99.2	255	0
	United People's Party			117	0
	Democratic Party			39	0
	Independents			49	0
Blank ballots		161,569	0.8	–	–
Invalid votes		7,766	–	–	–
Total		20,642,449	100	460	0
Registered voters/turnout		21,148,879	97.6	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

As the other parties and "independents" were in fact subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was, in fact, total.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ 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.

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