Poland 2011 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Civic Platform won 207 of 460 seats with 39.2% of the vote; 48.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 4.9 points on 2007.

Poland
Held Sunday 9 October 2011

Result

231 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Civic Platform	207	−2	39.2	−2.3	5,629,773
Law and Justice	157	−9	29.9	−2.2	4,295,016
Palikot's Movement	40		10.0		1,439,490
Polish People's Party	28	−3	8.4	−0.6	1,201,628
Democratic Left Alliance	27	−10	8.2		1,184,303
Poland Comes First	0		2.2		315,393
Real Politics Union / Congress of the New Right	0		1.1		151,837
German minority in Poland	1	0	0.2	0.0	28,014

± is the change against the Poland 2007 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party

Civic Platform 5,629,773
Law and Justice 4,295,016
Palikot's Movement 1,439,490
Polish People's Party 1,201,628
Democratic Left Alliance 1,184,303
Poland Comes First 315,393
Real Politics Union / Congress of the New Right 151,837
German minority in Poland 28,014

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.

Share of the vote

Civic Platform39.2%
Law and Justice29.9%
Palikot's Movement10.0%
Polish People's Party8.4%
Democratic Left Alliance8.2%
Poland Comes First2.2%
Real Politics Union / Congress of the New Right1.1%
German minority in Poland0.2%

Turnout

48.9% of the 30,762,931 registered voters cast a ballot (15,050,027 ballots), down 4.9 points on 2007. 14,369,503 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Civic Platform39.2% of votes45.0% of seats
Law and Justice29.9% of votes34.1% of seats
Palikot's Movement10.0% of votes8.7% of seats
Polish People's Party8.4% of votes6.1% of seats
Democratic Left Alliance8.2% of votes5.9% of seats
German minority in Poland0.2% of votes0.2% of seats
Poland Comes First2.2% of votes0.0% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.7 by votes and 3.0 by seats; Civic Platform led Law and Justice by 9.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.

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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