2005 Polish presidential election

none Poland presidential 2000 Polish presidential election 2000 2010 Polish presidential election 2010 9 October 2005 (first round)23 October 2005 (second round) 49.72% (first round) 11.36pp50.98% (second round) Donald Tusk, 2007 (extended).jpg 120 120 150 3 0 Donald Tusk Civic Platform PO 8,257,468 54.04% Lech Kaczyński.jpg 125 120 150 0 0 Lech Kaczyński Law and Justice Law and Justice (2001-2005) 7,022,319 45.96% 300px First round results by powiat 300px Second round results by powiat 2 President Aleksander Kwaśniewski Independent politician Lech Kaczyński Law and Justice Presidential elections were held in Poland on 9 October and 23 October 2005. The outgoing President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, had served the two five-year terms allowed under the constitution and was unable to stand for a third term. Lech Kaczyński defeated Donald Tusk to become President of Poland. The election took place just a month after Kaczyński's Law and Justice party also defeated Tusk's Civic Platform in the parliamentary elections. Background Two center-right candidates, Donald Tusk, chairman of the Civic Platform (PO) and Deputy Marshal of the Sejm, and Lech Kaczyński, honorary chairman of Law and Justice (PiS) and mayor of Warsaw, led the poll in the first round, as was widely expected. As neither received 50 percent of the vote, a second-round was held on 23 October. In this round, Kaczyński defeated Tusk, polling 54.04 percent of the vote. Although both leading candidates came from the center-right, and their two parties had planned to form a coalition government following the legislative elections on 25 September, there were important differences between Tusk and Kaczyński. Tusk wanted to enforce separation of church and state, favored rapid European integration and supported a free-market economy. Kaczyński was very socially conservative, a soft Eurosceptic, and supported state interventionism. Such differences led to the failure of PiS-PO coalition talks in late October. Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, the candidate of the Alliance of the Democratic Left, which was the governing party before the legislative election withdrew from the race on September 14. At the time he withdrew he was third in the polls, still having the most chances to get to the second round (besides Kaczyński and Tusk). Other candidates, who withdrew from the elections, but initially have signed to, were Zbigniew Religa and Maciej Giertych. Daniel Tomasz Podrzycki, who had also signed, died in an accident before the elections. Ten people had registered themselves in election procedure, but failed to gather 100,000 support signatures: Arnold Buzdygan, Stanisław Ceberek, Gabriel Janowski, Jan Antoni Kiełb, Waldemar Janusz Kossakowski, Marian Romuald Rembelski, Zbigniew Roliński, Sławomir Salomon, Maria Szyszkowska, Bolesław Tejkowski. The figure of Józef Tusk, grandfather of incumbent Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, was in the center of the "Wehrmacht affair" over his brief period of service after being drafted into the German army during the late stages of World War II, which was the biggest controversy of the election.pl Barbara Szczepuła, Józef Tusk i inni, Dziennik Bałtycki, 2006-08-04http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7056054.stm Europe | Profile: Donald Tusk BBC News 2007-10-22 2010-03-14pl Raport o dziadku z Wehrmachtu, Wprost, 2006-08-17 Candidates Physician Jan Pyszko (Polish League), 75 Withdrawn Dead Journalist Daniel Podrzycki (Polish Labour Party), 42 Opinion polls Graphical summary thumb|1000px|centre| Graphical summary of the first round opinion polls:10em Law and Justice solid 5px Lech Kaczyński Civic Platform solid 5px Donald Tusk Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland solid 5px Andrzej Lepper Social Democracy of Poland solid 5px Marek Borowski Polish People's Party solid 5px J. Kalinowski Real Politics Union solid 5px J. Korwin-Mikke Democratic Party – demokraci.pl solid 5px Henryka Bochniarz #7C93D9 solid 5px Zbigniew Religa Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) solid 5px W. Cimoszewicz League of Polish Families solid 5px Maciej Giertych First round PollsterDate of polling KaczyńskiPiS TuskPO LepperSRP BorowskiSDPL KalinowskiPSL Korwin-MikkeUPR BochniarzPD ReligaCentrum CimoszewiczSLD GiertychLPROthersElection results 9 October 2005 33.10 36.33 15.11 10.33 1.80 1.43 1.26 - - - 0.70CBOS 1–3 October 2005 35 40 11 8 3 2 0 - - - 1PGB 30 September 2005 31 35 17 11 2 1 1 - - 2 0CBOS 14–18 September 2005 26 44 15 7 3 2 1 - - 1 1Rzeczpospolita 17 September 2005 29 51 7 7 2 - - 2 2PBS 15 September 2005 22 49 9 8 3 2 2 - - 3 2Polityka 13 September 2005 22 43 10 - 17 8Ipsos 9 August 2005 24 24 12 5 3 2 0 7 19 2 2OBOP 8 August 2005 21 23 9 5 2 7 26 3 4PBS 8 August 2005 20 19 14 3 9 23 4 8CBOS 5–8 August 2005 21 22 13 5 2 1 1 9 21 3 2PGB 13 July 2005 22 11 15 6 3 1 9 23 6 4OBOP 11 July 2005 19 12 11 2.4 1.9 12 35 2.4 4.3Gazeta Wyborcza 6 July 2005 18 12 10 5 3 14 29 3 6CBOS 1–4 July 2005 20 9 12 5 3 13 31 3 4CBOS 3–6 June 2005 25 11 12 14 3 23 4 8 PBS 13 May 2005 27 14 9 16 15 19CBOS 6–9 May 2005 22 13 14 10 15 14 2 10OBOPQuestion asked: "Who would be the best president?" 5–9 May 2005 13 8 8 6 10 9 1 16Jan Maria Rokita (4), Józef Zych (3), Jan Olszewski (2), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (2), Waldemar Pawlak (1), Adam Gierek (1), Maciej Płażyński (0), Władysław Frasyniuk (0), Others (3). PGB 2 May 2005 23 13 13 10 9 10 22 Pentor 25 April 2005 21 9 13 9 22 15 2 9 PBS 22 April 2005 26 11 11 12 16 14 4 6 PGB 20 April 2005 24 13 13 14 7 8 9 12 CBOS 1-2, 9–10 April 2005 21 9 13 9 22 15 2 9 CBOS 4–7 March 2005 4 2 6 4 8 4 2 70 Results Voter turnout in the first round was low with only 49.7% of all eligible voters casting their votes. thumb|255px|Results of the first round Lech Kaczyński Law and Justice 4947927 8257468 #00a1b0 Donald Tusk Civic Platform 5429666 7022319 Andrzej Lepper Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland 2259094 Marek Borowski Social Democracy of Poland 1544642 Jarosław Kalinowski Polish People's Party 269316 Janusz Korwin-Mikke Real Politics Union 214116 Henryka Bochniarz Democratic Party 188598 Liwiusz Ilasz pl Independent 31691 #ffbe00 Stanisław Tymiński All-Polish Citizens Coalition pl Polska Unia Gospodarcza 23545 #DF8936 Leszek Bubel pl Polish National Party 18828 #890000 Jan Pyszko pl Organisation of the Polish Nation – Polish League 10371 Adam Słomka pl Polish Confederation – Dignity and Work 8895 99661 155233 30260027 30279209 PKW,Wybory 2005 http://prezydent2005.pkw.gov.pl/PZT/PL/WYN/W/index.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070211071631/http://prezydent2005.pkw.gov.pl/PZT/PL/WYN/W/index.htm 2007-02-11 2026-09-10 PKWWybory 2005 http://www.wybory2005.pkw.gov.pl/PZT1/PL/WYN/W/index.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20071229034056/http://www.wybory2005.pkw.gov.pl/PZT1/PL/WYN/W/index.htm 2007-12-29 2026-09-10 Vote share #ddd 600px 500px Second round L. Kaczyński #00a1b0 54.04 Tusk Civic Platform 45.96 First round Tusk Civic Platform 36.33 L. Kaczyński #00a1b0 33.10 Lepper Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland 15.11 Borowski Social Democracy of Poland 10.33 Pawlak Polish People's Party 1.80 Korwin-Mikke Real Politics Union 1.43 Bochniarz Democratic Party – demokraci.pl 1.26 Others #777777 0.63 Notes References External links Angus Reid Consultants - Election Tracker "Presidential Calculator" https://web.archive.org/web/20051016160124/http://www.pbssopot.com.pl/x.php?x=184/Kalkulator-prezydencki.html 2005-10-16 , Rzeczpospolita Official results Reference files on the Poland's presidential candidates. Poland President Category:Presidential elections in Poland Category:History of Poland (1989–present) Category:Lech Kaczyński Presidential