Eight years of rule under the right-wing Law and Justice party could soon come to an end.

Sejm (lower house) votes as of 100% votes counted):

  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Right) - 35,38%
  • Koalicja Obywatelska (Centre) - 30,70%
  • Trzecia Droga (Centre-Right) - 14,40%
  • Nowa Lewica (Centre-Left) - 8,61%
  • Konfederacja (Far Right) - 7,16%

Up to date results: https://wybory.gov.pl/sejmsenat2023/pl/sejm/wynik/pl

Sejm (lower house) seats as of 100% votes counted:

  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Right) - 194
  • Koalicja Obywatelska (Centre) - 157
  • Trzecia Droga (Centre-Right) - 65
  • Nowa Lewica (Centre-Left) - 26
  • Konfederacja (Far Right) - 18

Democratic opposition gets 248/460 seats, safe majority but not enough to counter presidential veto.

D’Hondt calculator via: https://danieljanus.pl/wybory2023/

Senat (upper house) as of 100% votes counted:

  • Senate pact*: 66
  • PiS: 34

* First past the post system is used in the upper house elections. Senate pact is an informal coalition of all democratic opposition parties where they agree on a single candidate per voting district.

Via: https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/15373201/embed?auto=1

  • Ben MatthewsEnglish
    6•11 months ago

    The site wybory.gov.pl shows maps, if you click on a party name, which illustrate a clear NW / SE divide, as well as the urban / rural divide that’s common everywhere. Any explanations, why NW is so different from SE, and how to reduce such polarisation?

    • @[email protected]English
      7•11 months ago

      IIRC, the map of voting tendencies in Poland echoes the map of the partitions of Poland, with the parts that had been under Russian rule before WW1 leaning more towards authoritarian autocracy than the parts that had been under Prussian and Austrian rule. Presumably some form of cultural transmission of attitudes to power would be the root cause.

      • Ben MatthewsEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        Old divisions maybe relevant, but it’s not so simple. For example, greatest PiS % in SE corner is on the Austrian side of that division. Also, [grand]parents of many people in western poland moved there from the easternmost areas which became Ukraine and Belarus after the war. I’m told catholicism is relevant, and Austrian empire was catholic, but that included Czechia which became the least religious country. I think a plot of PiS vote vs altitude would show a good correlation…

        • @[email protected]English
          2•11 months ago

          A correlation between altitude and political illiberality has been noted elsewhere, and it has been speculated that it’s due to more diverse areas tending to be more liberal, and ports and market cities tending to be more diverse, so that is probably part of it.