Poland 2001 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Democratic Left Alliance won 200 of 460 seats with 41.0% of the vote; 46.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.6 points on 1997.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Left Alliance | 200 | +36 | 41.0 | +13.9 | 5,342,519 |
| Civic Platform | 65 | 12.7 | 1,651,099 | ||
| Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland | 53 | 10.2 | 1,327,624 | ||
| Law and Justice | 44 | 9.5 | 1,236,787 | ||
| Polish People's Party | 42 | +15 | 9.0 | +1.7 | 1,168,659 |
| League of Polish Families | 38 | 7.9 | 1,025,148 | ||
| Solidarity Electoral Actionwith Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland | 0 | −201 | 5.6 | −28.2 | 729,207 |
| Democratic / Freedom / Union | 0 | −60 | 3.1 | −10.3 | 404,074 |
| German minority in Poland | 2 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 47,230 |
| Labour Union | 16 | +16 |
± is the change against the Poland 1997 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Democratic Left Alliance 5,342,519
- Civic Platform 1,651,099
- Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland 1,327,624
- Law and Justice 1,236,787
- Polish People's Party 1,168,659
- League of Polish Families 1,025,148
- Solidarity Electoral Action 729,207
- Democratic / Freedom / Union 404,074
- German minority in Poland 47,230
- Labour Union
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
46.3% of the 29,364,455 registered voters cast a ballot (13,591,681 ballots), down 1.6 points on 1997. 13,017,929 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1991 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Democratic Left Alliance41.0% of votes43.5% of seats
- Civic Platform12.7% of votes14.1% of seats
- Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland10.2% of votes11.5% of seats
- Law and Justice9.5% of votes9.6% of seats
- Polish People's Party9.0% of votes9.1% of seats
- League of Polish Families7.9% of votes8.3% of seats
- German minority in Poland0.4% of votes0.4% of seats
- Solidarity Electoral Action5.6% of votes0.0% of seats
- Democratic / Freedom / Union3.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.5 by votes and 4.0 by seats; Democratic Left Alliance led Civic Platform by 28.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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