2011 Polish parliamentary election

none Poland parliamentary 2007 Polish parliamentary election 2007 List_of_Sejm_members_(2007–2011) 2015 Polish parliamentary election 2015 List_of_Sejm_members_(2011-2015) Opinion polling for the 2011 Polish parliamentary election 9 October 2011 30,762,931 yes Sejm legislative All 460 seats in the Sejm 231 15,050,027 (48.92%) 4.9 pp Gościem dzisiejszego dnia jest Robert Korzeniowski (6166215272) (cropped).jpg 136 120 150 0 7 Donald Tusk Civic Platform 1 June 2003 41.5%, 209 seats 207 2 5,629,773 39.2% 2.3 pp Kaczynski 5-7-2010.jpg 158 120 150 0 17 Jarosław Kaczyński Law and Justice 18 January 2003 32.1%, 166 seats 157 9 4,295,016 29.9% 2.2 pp Janusz Palikot Sejm 06.JPG 175 120 150 3 25 Janusz Palikot Palikot's Movement 1 June 2011 Did not exist 40 New 1,439,490 10.0% New party Waldemar Pawlak (8036252623).jpg 375 120 150 20 90 Waldemar Pawlak Polish People's Party 29 January 2005 8.9%, 31 seats 28 3 1,201,628 8.4% 0.5 pp Grzegorz Napieralski 2012.png 120 120 150 5 0 Grzegorz Napieralski Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) 31 May 2008 13.2%, 53 seats 27 26 1,184,303 8.2% 5.0 pp Ryszard Galla posel (cropped).jpg 130 120 150 0 0 Ryszard Galla German Minority 20 January 2008 0.2%, 1 seat 1 0 28,014 0.2% 0.0 pp yes Senate All 100 seats in the Senate 51 15,048,260 (48.92%) 4.89 pp yes Civic Platform 60 63 35.60 Law and Justice 39 31 26.94 Polish People's Party 0 2 9.39 KWW Rafał Dutkiewicz #d46008 0 1 1.80 Independent (politician) 1 3 7.87 400px Sejm – results by constituency 400px Sejm – results by gmina Government First Tusk cabinet PO—PSL Second Tusk cabinet PO—PSL Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 9 October 2011. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The ruling Civic Platform (PO) won a plurality of seats and Tusk became the first Polish prime minister to be appointed for a second consecutive term since the fall of communism. Both the Civic Platform and its junior partner, the Polish People's Party (PSL), agreed to continue their governing coalition after the election. Electoral system The election was for all 460 seats of the Sejm and all 100 seats of the Senate. Candidates for Deputies are nominated either by the electoral committees of the various political parties and or by individual voter committees.Electoral law https://www.sejm.gov.pl/english/sejm/pos.htm Sejm of the Republic of Poland 12 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210227050632/http://www.sejm.gov.pl/english/sejm/pos.htm 27 February 2021 The process of election for the Sejm is through party-list proportional representation via the D'hondt method in multi-seat constituencies (41 in total),Álvarez-Rivera Manuel Elections to the Polish Sejm, Part I http://electionresources.org/pl/ Election Resources on the Internet 12 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210224021334/http://electionresources.org/pl/ 24 February 2021 with a 5% threshold for single parties and 8% threshold for coalitions (requirements waived for national minorities)."Republic Of Poland." Background Notes On Countries Of The World 2003 (2003): 1-13. Academic Search Premier. Web. 22 Dec. 2011. The election was the first one to take place under a new Election Code which altered the electoral system in the Senate election from a plurality block voting to the first-past-the-post voting, with one member to be returned in each of the 100 single member constituencies.5 January 2011 Kodeks wyborczy https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20110210112/O/D20110112.pdf 30 December 2024 sejm.gov.pl There were 25,993 precincts for 30,512,850 voters.Elections 2011 to the Sejm and Senate https://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/geo/en/000000.html#tabs-1 National Electoral Commission 12 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210607125919/https://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/geo/en/000000.html#tabs-1 7 June 2021 thumb|Senate constituencies. Election date The date of the election, October 9, was set by the President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, and announced on 4 July. The latest possible date for the election to be held was 30 October 2011,President to choose election date http://www.thenews.pl/national/?id=150016 Polskie Radio TheNews.pl 24 February 2010 20 December 2010 four years after the previous election. Prior to the announcement of the election date, the most likely dates were thought to be 16 October or 23 October.http://www.wbj.pl/article-53504-parliamentary-elections-on-october-16-or-23.html?typ=ise Parliamentary elections on October 16 or 23 - Warsaw Business Journal - Online Portal - wbj.pl 2011-03-03 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110926231659/http://www.wbj.pl/article-53504-parliamentary-elections-on-october-16-or-23.html?typ=ise 2011-09-26 Although the governing coalition had a strong majority, it was suggested that the elections be brought forward to the spring,An interview with Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska https://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/12/polands_new_political_group The Economist 1 December 2010 20 December 2010 to avoid the campaign interrupting Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of the year. The idea was supported by the Democratic Left Alliance and Poland Comes First, but firmly opposed by Law and Justice.Spring elections before Poland's EU presidency? http://www.thenews.pl/press/?id=145192 Polskie Radio TheNews.pl 10 December 2010 20 December 2010 The Civic Platform favoured an election date of 23 October.PM and president discuss possible election date http://www.thenews.pl/press/?id=150388 Polskie Radio TheNews.pl 2 March 2011 20 December 2010 Since the State Electoral Commission decided that 30 October falls too close to the national holiday of All Saints' Day,State commission gives possible election dates http://www.thenews.pl/press/?id=150067 Polskie Radio TheNews.pl 24 February 2011 20 December 2010 and elections are always held on Sundays, 23 October was the latest possible date to hold the election. In the end, Komorowski decided on 9 October.4 August 2011 Wybory jednodniowe 9 października https://www.prezydent.pl/kancelaria/archiwum/archiwum-bronislawa-komorowskiego/aktualnosci/wydarzenia/wybory-jednodniowe-9-pazdziernika,14345 30 December 2024 Prezydent.pl The idea of holding the election over two days instead of the usual one, to increase turnout, was raised. An election over two days would have cost 130–140 million złoty, compared to 90 million for a one-day election. The single day election option prevailed. Parties Civic Platform (PO), the largest governing party under prime minister Donald Tusk, was seeking reelection. Opinion polls over the past four years had fairly consistently shown the PO to have the largest level of popular support among Poland's political parties. PO was seeking either to win majority government in its own right, or to continue its coalition with the smaller Polish People's Party (PSL). During the election campaign, prime minister Donald Tusk ruled out the possibility of a coalition with either Law and Justice or Palikot's Movement. Law and Justice Law and Justice (PiS), is Poland's second largest party as of 2007, and was the leading party of government from 2005 to 2007. PiS's greatest difficulty this election, was not only that it trailed PO in popular support, but that even if it were to outpoll the PO, it might have had difficulty in finding other parties willing to enter into a coalition with it. Jarosław Kaczyński had publicly denied the possibility of allying his party with the post-communist SLD and relations with the PSL (traditionally viewed by the media as an opportunist coalition partner, ready to form a coalition with everyone) were tense. This tension was exacerbated following PiS's spokesperson Adam Hofman's statement during the election campaign, in which he attacked PSL members in an abusive manner following the airing of the People's Party newest electoral TV ad. Democratic Left Alliance Poland's strongest left-wing party, the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) had struggled since 2005 to regain its position as one of the countries two largest parties. The SLD indicated its potential interest in being a coalition partner with PO following the election. Polish People's Party The Polish People's Party (PSL) is an agrarian-rooted party. It was the minority partner in a coalition government with PO. Although some opinion polls showed popular support for PSL to be dangerously close to the 5% electoral threshold, in the past PSL generally performed a little better than opinion polls indicated. It is widely seen as a coalition partner for every party that happens to need such. Palikot's Movement Palikot's Movement (Ruch Palikota), officially the Movement of Support (Ruch Poparcia, RP), is a breakaway faction of the PO that followed MP Janusz Palikot after he had been expelled from the party for his "scandalous" remarks on late President Lech Kaczyński. The RP is distinctive on Poland's political scene in that it is the first party in the country's history that puts strong emphasis on its program's anticlerical features (the usual practice being that parties either try to win the Church's unofficial support or at least do not try to appear anti-Church) along with appeals for putting an end to the anti-abortion policy and introducing civil unions for same-sex couples. In terms of economy, the RP blends leftistOctober 2011 and rightist ideas. Poland Comes First A new party on the Polish political scene, Poland Comes First (PJN), emerged as a splinter group from PiS, following the 2010 Polish presidential election. PJN's future parliamentary representation was uncertain, given that most opinion polls showed support levels for PJN to be below the 5% electoral threshold. The party had suffered an almost constant internal crisis since its very foundation that led many of its MPs to leave it for the other parties in Parliament, including the most famous one, chairwoman Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska, who joined the PO. Commentators argue that the PJN failed to establish itself as a real alternative on the political scene, being widely perceived as nothing but a milder variant of the party it had once left. Other parties The only other party contesting all 41 electoral districts for the Sejm in 2011, was the Polish Labour Party (PPP). The remaining parties include Congress of the New Right (KNP) (21 districts), Right of the Republic (PR) (20 districts), Our Homeland Poland (NDP) (9 districts) and German Minority group (MN) (1 district). With the exception of the German Minority group (which as an ethnic minority party is exempt from the 5% election threshold requirement), these parties were not expected to poll the required 5% to enter the Sejm. Some other minor parties, had decided not to contest the elections independently, opting instead to negotiate a place for their candidates on the electoral lists of the larger parties. This strategy had worked for some minor parties in past elections, and seen them get some of their candidates elected in this way.IFES Election Guide Elections: Poland Sejm October 2011 https://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/498/ 2022-08-11 www.electionguide.org Campaign Tusk campaigned on a platform that drew on the record of its economic success during the previous government. He also said that he would pursue a "steady rapprochement" with Russia, in spite of prior rows over missile defence, gas pipelines and the inquiry into the plane crash that killed Poland's former president in 2010. Conversely the Law and Justice Party had been distrustful of Russia and Germany. Monitors Various delegations from the electoral boards and of political party representatives from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, due to hold their own free elections in the coming months, monitored the election in Warsaw, Radom and Płock at the invitations of the Foreign Ministry, as Deputy Foreign Minister Krzysztof Stanowski said that "I hope the climax of our help comes when [the countries’ policymakers] begin discussing the constitution, reforms in economy and local government." Rania Mbarki, from a local election commission in Tunis, said that "it's obligatory to stand in the voting booth before putting pen to paper. Here, the ballot papers are marked on tables with families around. There is a discussion. In our country it's confidential, we can't say what we have chosen, you can't show what you have chosen, so this is different for us;" while Mounira Belghouthi, from a local election board in Kairouan, added that the advanced voting machines were more technologically advanced than in Tunisia and they sought to get an idea its usage. Opinion polls Opinion polling for the Polish parliamentary election, 2011 thumb|1000px|centre| Graphical summary of opinion polls:10em Civic Platform solid 5px Civic Platform Law and Justice solid 5px Law and Justice Palikot's Movement solid 5px Palikot's Movement Polish People's Party solid 5px Polish People's Party Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) solid 5px Democratic Left Alliance Poland Comes First solid 5px Poland Comes First Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland solid 5px Self-Defence League of Polish Families solid 5px League of Polish Families Results thumb|Powiats won by: ■ – Civic Platform ■ – Law and Justice ■ – Polish People's Party ■ – Democratic Left Alliance thumb|Sejm election result thumb|Senate election result by constituency. With all votes counted, voter turnout was 48.92%. In the Sejm, Poznań recorded the highest turnout of 60.2% and Elbląg recorded the lowest turnout with 41.24%. The valid votes were 95.48% of the ballots. In the Senate, voter turnout was 48.92% with one of Warszawa I's seats recording the highest turnout of 73.61% and Opole recording the lowest turnout with 38.1%. The valid votes were 96.57% of the ballots.Elections 2011 to the Sejm and Senate https://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/wyn/en/000000.html#tabs-1 National Electoral Commission 12 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210607022139/https://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/wyn/en/000000.html#tabs-1 7 June 2021 The Civic Platform party won a plurality with 207 seats in the Sejm, followed by the Law and Justice Party with 157 seats. The breakaway Palikot Movement won 40 seats and the second biggest incumbent coalition party, the Polish People's Party, won 28 seats. The Democratic Left Alliance got 27 seats.Poland re-elects PM Donald Tusk https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15230750 BBC News 10 October 2011 In the Senate, Civic Platform won an absolute majority with 63 seats, while Law & Justice came away with 31. The only other party to achieve Senate representation was the Polish People's Party, which won 2 seats. Four independents were also elected.http://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/wsw/en/000000.html#tabs-2 Elections 2011 - Senate Results National Electoral Commission 2011-10-12 Sejm File:Polish Sejm Election 2011.svg Civic Platform 5629773 207 –2 Law and Justice 4295016 157 –9 Palikot's Movement 1439490 40 New Polish People's Party 1201628 28 –3 Democratic Left Alliance 1184303 27 –26 Poland Comes First 315393 0 New Congress of the New Right 151837 0 New Polish Labour Party 79147 0 0 #FF0000 Right Wing of the Republic 35169 0 New German Minority Electoral Committee 28014 1 0 Our Home Poland 9733 0 0 0 680524 30762931 PKW Party breakdown Civic Platform 5 Civic Platform 5123486 191 Independents 491259 16 Social Democracy of Poland 13716 0 Democratic Party – demokraci.pl 1312 0 5629773 207 Law and Justice 7 Law and Justice 3545517 132 Independents 679793 23 National-Catholic Movement 48647 1 Movement for Reconstruction of Poland 10999 1 Piast Faction 8678 0 Right Wing of the Republicmembers Individual members running on lists different from their own parties 1382 0 4295016 157 Palikot's Movement 7 Palikot's Movement 1011558 34 Independents 310325 4 Reason Party 94422 1 Democratic Left Alliancemembers 19451 1 Democratic Party – demokraci.pl 1614 0 Polish People's Partymembers 1534 0 1438904 40 Polish People's Party 3 Polish People's Party 966426 27 Independents 235105 1 1201531 28 Democratic Left Alliance 15 Democratic Left Alliance 947056 27 Independents 164830 0 Labour Union 20059 0 Women's Party 13751 0 Greens 2004 12445 0 Social Democracy of Poland 11279 0 National Party of Retirees and Pensioners 7326 0 Democratic Party – demokraci.pl 5040 0 Movement for Economic Revival 1035 0 Party of Regions 598 0 #03a3ef Polish Communist Party 518 0 Polish Socialist Party 360 0 Reason Party 312 0 Self-Defence of the Republic of Polandmembers 190 0 1184799 27 Poland Comes First 11 Poland Comes First 192283 0 Independents 120476 0 Alliance of Democrats 530 0 Polish People's Partymembers 516 0 National People's Movement 382 0 #102648 Conservative People's Party 286 0 League of Polish Families 265 0 National Party of Retirees and Pensioners 260 0 Law and Justicemembers 239 0 Union of Polish Monarchist Groups 156 0 #800020 315393 0 New Right ofJanusz Korwin-Mikke 6 Congress of the New Right 78359 0 Independents 69133 0 Real Politics Union 3310 0 Party of Greens of the Republic of Poland 907 0 #027502 League of Polish Families 128 0 151837 0 Polish Labour Party -August 80 4 Independents 44217 0 Polish Labour Party - August 80 31857 0 Self-Defencemembers 3012 0 79086 0 Right Wing of the Republic 11 Independents 19964 0 Right Wing of the Republic 10884 0 Real Politics Union 3267 0 Piast Faction 370 0 League of Polish Families 360 0 Europe of the Free Homelands 65 0 #B80000 Organisation of the Polish Nation - Polish League 59 0 Organisation of the Polish Nation – Polish League Christian Democracy of the Third Polish Republic 41 0 Polish Agreement 31 0 Labour Party 18 0 35059 0 German Minority Independents 28014 1 Our Home Poland –Andrzej Lepper's Self-Defence 5 Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland 7102 0 Independents 2552 0 League of Polish Families 60 0 Patriotic Poland pl Polska Patriotyczna 19 0 #FF3300 9733 0 Pliki Do Pobrania Okręgi wyborcze National Electoral CommissionIn result breakdown by candidate provided by the National Electoral Commission, the sum of party votes are different from final released vote totals for coalitions for Palikot's Movement (by 586), Polish People's Party (by 96), Democratic Left Alliance (by 496), Polish Labour Party - August 80 (by 61) and Right Wing of the Republic (by 110). In the table, figures provided for each party are taken from the candidate breakdown while coalition sums are taken from the final result. Senate 350px Civic Platform 5173300 63 +3 Law and Justice 3915355 31 –8 Polish People's Party 1363796 2 +2 Democratic Left Alliance 1355151 0 0 Citizens to the Senate 504792 0 New #F9DA05 Rafał Dutkiewicz Electoral Committee 261135 1 New #d46008 Autonomy for Upper Silesia 147710 0 New Poland Comes First 109182 0 New Right Wing of the Republic 82115 0 New Polish Labour Party 76913 0 New #FF0000 Congress of the New Right 73028 0 New W. Lubawskiego Senate for Citizens 39639 0 New Podhalanie 38243 0 New German Minority Electoral Committee 34247 0 0 Civic Poland 33422 0 New San Valley Self-Government 25296 0 New Nowy Ekran 23369 0 New Bezpartyjni.pl 19825 0 New League for the Defence of Sovereignty 19440 0 New white Confederation, Dignity and Rule of Law 18277 0 New Our Home Poland 16314 0 0 Alliance for Poland 13809 0 New Democratic Party 12800 0 0 Independent to the Senate 10242 0 New League of Polish Families 8167 0 0 Ojcowizna 3227 0 New Patriotic Poland 3482 0 New white Slavic Union 2977 0 0 National Revival of Poland 2934 0 0 #016E4F Independents 1143275 3 +2 0 516798 30762931 PKW, Plankton Polityczny By constituency # Voivodeship Commission # Party Elected member 1 Lower Silesian Legnica I Civic Coalition Jan Michalski 2 II Civic Coalition Józef Pinior 3 III Law and Justice Dorota Czudowska 4 Wałbrzych I Civic Coalition Wiesław Kilian 5 II Civic Coalition Stanisław Jurcewicz 6 Wrocław I Civic Coalition Jarosław Duda 7 II Civic Coalition Alicja Chybicka 8 III Rafał Dutkiewicz Electoral Committee Jarosław Obremski 9 Kuyavian-Pomeranian Bydgoszcz I Civic Coalition Andrzej Kobiak 10 II Civic Coalition Jan Rulewski 11 Toruń I Civic CoalitionJan Wyrowiński 12 II Civic CoalitionMichał Wojtczak 13 III Civic CoalitionAndrzej Person 14 Lublin Lublin I Law and JusticeStanisław Gogacz 15 II Law and JusticeGrzegorz Czelej 16 III Law and JusticeHenryk Cioch 17 Chełm I Law and JusticeGrzegorz Bierecki 18 II Polish People's PartyJózef Zając 19 III Law and JusticeJerzy Chróścikowski 20 Lubusz Zielona Góra I Civic CoalitionStanisław Iwan 21 II Civic CoalitionHelena Hatka 22 III Civic CoalitionRobert Dowhan 23 Łódź Łódź I Civic CoalitionMaciej Grubski 24 II Civic CoalitionRyszard Bonisławski 25 Sieradz I Law and JusticePrzemysław Błaszczyk 26 II Civic CoalitionAndrzej Owczarek 27 III Law and JusticeMichał Seweryński 28 Piotrków Trybunalski I Law and JusticeWiesław Dobkowski 29 II Law and JusticeGrzegorz Wojciechowski 30 Lesser Poland Kraków I Law and JusticeAndrzej Pająk 31 II Law and JusticeBogdan Pęk 32 III Civic CoalitionJanusz Sepioł 33 IV Civic CoalitionBogdan Klich 34 Tarnów I Law and JusticeMaciej Klima 35 II Law and JusticeKazimierz Wiatr 36 Nowy Sącz I Civic CoalitionStanisław Hodorowicz 37 II Law and JusticeStanisław Kogut 38 Masovian Płock I Law and JusticeMarek Martynowski 39 II Law and JusticeJan Jackowski 40 Warszawa I Civic CoalitionAnna Aksamit 41 II Civic CoalitionŁukasz Abgarowicz 42 III IndependentMarek Borowski 43 IV Civic CoalitionMarek Rocki 44 V Civic CoalitionBarbara Borys-Damięcka 45 VI Civic CoalitionAleksander Pociej 46 Siedlce I Law and JusticeRobert Mamątow 47 II Law and JusticeHenryk Górski 48 III Law and JusticeWaldemar Kraska 49 Radom I Law and JusticeStanisław Karczewski 50 II Law and JusticeWojciech Skurkiewicz 51 Opole Opole I Civic CoalitionRyszard Knosala 52 II Civic CoalitionPiotr Wach 53 III Civic CoalitionAleksander Świeykowski 54 Subcarpathian Rzeszów I Law and JusticeJanina Sagatowska 55 II Law and JusticeWładysław Ortyl 56 III Law and JusticeKazimierz Jaworski 57 Krosno I Law and JusticeAlicja Zając 58 II Law and JusticeAndrzej Matusiewicz 59 Podlaskie Białystok I Law and JusticeBohdan Paszkowski 60 II Civic CoalitionTadeusz Arłukowicz 61 III IndependentWłodzimierz Cimoszewicz 62 Pomeranian Słupsk I Civic CoalitionKazimierz Kleina 63 II Civic CoalitionRoman Zaborowski 64 III Civic CoalitionEdmund Wittbrodt 65 Gdańsk I Civic CoalitionBogdan Borusewicz 66 II Civic CoalitionAndrzej Grzyb 67 III Civic CoalitionLeszek Czarnobaj 68 Silesian Częstochowa I Civic CoalitionJarosław Lasecki 69 II Civic CoalitionAndrzej Szewiński 70 Katowice I Civic CoalitionMaria Pańczyk-Pozdziej 71 II Civic CoalitionAndrzej Misiołek 72 Bielsko-Biała I Civic CoalitionAdam Zdziebło 73 II Civic CoalitionAntoni Motyczka 74 Katowice III Civic CoalitionLeszek Piechota 75 IV Civic CoalitionElżbieta Bieńkowska 76 V Civic CoalitionZbigniew Meres 77 VI Civic CoalitionBogusław Śmigielski 78 Bielsko-Biała III Civic CoalitionRafał Muchacki 79 IV Civic CoalitionTadeusz Kopeć 80 Katowice VII IndependentKazimierz Kutz 81 Świętokrzyskie Kielce I Law and JusticeMieczysław Gil 82 II Law and JusticeBeata Gosiewska 83 III Law and JusticeKrzysztof Słoń 84 Warmian-Masurian Elbląg I Civic CoalitionWitold Gintowt-Dziewałtowski 85 II Civic CoalitionStanisław Gorczyca 86 Olsztyn I Civic CoalitionRyszard Górecki 87 II Civic CoalitionMarek Konopka 88 Greater Poland Piła I Civic CoalitionMieczysław Augustyn 89 II Civic CoalitionJan Libicki 90 Poznań I Civic CoalitionMarek Ziółkowski 91 II Civic CoalitionJadwiga Rotnicka 92 Konin I Civic CoalitionPiotr Gruszczyński 93 II Civic CoalitionIreneusz Niewiarowski 94 Kalisz I Civic CoalitionMarian Poślednik 95 II Polish People's PartyAndżelika Możdżanowska 96 III Civic CoalitionWitold Sitarz 97 West Pomeranian Szczecin I Civic CoalitionNorbert Obrycki 98 II Civic CoalitionSławomir Preiss 99 Koszalin I Civic CoalitionGrażyna Sztark 100 II Civic CoalitionPiotr Zientarski Reactions Civic Platform's Donald Tusk said of the victory that: "It is the highest honour for me and for Civic Platform that we will be working for the next four years for all of you, regardless of who you voted for today. In the next four years we will work twice as hard." The Law and Justice Party's Jaroslaw Kaczynski conceded defeat.Polish PM wins second term http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/10/20111010115010585623.html Al Jazeera 12 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20111012182019/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/10/20111010115010585623.html 12 October 2011 dead Polish financial markets reacted positively to the outcome, while the zloty rose.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/10/poland-re-elects-donald-tusk London The Guardian Helen Pidd Poland re-elects PM Donald Tusk 10 October 2011 Analysis The Civic Platform was considered to be the big winner of the election, being the only Polish political party to have achieved reelection over the past 20 years of democratic elections. Further to that, PO saw only a very small voter swing against it (-2.3%) and a loss of only two seats from its 2007 outcome which was a record result. The other big winner, was the newly established Palikot Movement, which managed to poll double figures (10%) to come in at third place, ahead of PSL and SLD, both of which were longstanding established parties. Opinion polls, of only a month or so prior to the election, had Palikot's Movement at around 2% of the vote, well below the election threshold. The Polish People's Party (8.4%) managed to hang on to its support base (despite some opinion polls suggesting that they would struggle to achieve the threshold), allowing it to continue its coalition with PO, and maintain its level of representation in the new government. On the other hand, Law and Justice was one of the big losers in the election. PiS was seeking to defeat PO, but failed to even lift its own vote (falling from over 32% in 2007 to less than 30% in 2011). The other big loser was the Democratic Left Alliance, which for the first time in its history failed to achieve a result above 10% (2001 -40%, 2005 - 11%, 2007 - 13%). It was the first time in which SLD fell to fifth place in party results, and the first time in which it polled below the Polish People's Party. Poland Comes First, failed to capture the middle ground between the two major parties, as it was hoping to do, and lost all of its parliamentary seats, achieving only a very modest 2.2% of the vote. Bloomberg said of the victory for Civic Platform that, as Poland was the only EU country to avoid a recession in 2009, it could continue with its economic initiatives such as consolidating the budget with an expected shortfall and also to avoid austerity measures that many other EU countries have been forced to endure. It also added that the success of the breakaway Palikot movement, coupled with the People Party's reluctance to support some policies, could provide a counterweight to keeping Civic Platform from getting complacent.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-10/poland-s-new-parliamentary-party-may-help-spur-tusk-s-overhaul.html Bloomberg Dorota Bartyzel Monika Rozlal Poland's New Parliamentary Party May Help Spur Tusk's Economic Overhaul 11 October 2011 Government formation Following Civic Platform's victory, Tusk said that his party's coalition alliance with the smaller Polish People's Party would continue. Tusk also declared that his ministry would remain unchanged for the remainder of the year, citing the fact that this was the preferable course of action given Poland's presidency of the EU, which continues to the end of the year.Election 2011 – Tusk: 'No change in government till New Year' http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/56670,Election-2011-–-Tusk-No-change-in-government-till-New-Year Polskie Radio 12 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002131/http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/56670,Election-2011-%E2%80%93-Tusk-No-change-in-government-till-New-Year 4 March 2016 12 October 2011 dead Notes References External links NSD: European Election Database - Poland https://web.archive.org/web/20190224123956/http://www.nsd.uib.no/european_election_database/country/poland/ 2019-02-24 publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1990–2011 Poland Category:Parliamentary elections in Poland Parliamentary Parliamentary