1976 Polish parliamentary election

1976 Polish parliamentary election

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21 March 1976

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All 460 seats in the Sejm

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Edward Gierek	Stanisław Gucwa	Tadeusz Witold Młyńczak
Party	PZPR	ZSL	SD
Last election	255 seats	117 seats	39 seats
Seats won	261	113	37
Seat change	6	4	2

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 21 March 1976.^[1]

Results


Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Front of National Unity		Polish United Workers' Party	23,502,983	99.43	261	+6
			United People's Party			113	–4
			Democratic Party			37	–2
			Independents			49	0
Blank ballots				134,350	0.57	–	–
Total				23,637,333	100.00	460	0

Valid votes				23,637,333	99.94
Invalid votes				14,923	0.06
Total votes				23,652,256	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				24,069,579	98.27
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was 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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