Polish legislative election, 1972

19 March 1972

All 460 seats in the Sejm

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Edward Gierek	Stanisław Gucwa
Party	PZPR	United People's Party
Leader since	20 December 1970	1971
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 (politician)	Zygmunt Moskwa
Party	Independent	SD
Leader since	–	1969
Last election	49	39
Seats won	49	39
Seat change	0	0
Percentage	10.7%	8.5%
Swing	0	0

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 19 March 1972.^[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. The results of the next, 1976 election, would be only marginally different.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Front of National Unity	Polish United Workers' Party	21,746,242	99.5	255	0
	United People's Party			117	0
	Democratic Party			39	0
	Independents			49	0
Blank ballots		103,155	0.5	–	–
Invalid votes		5,084	–	–	–
Total		21,854,481	100	460	0
Registered voters/turnout		22,313,851	97.9	–	–
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
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

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