2006 Polish local elections

Election in Poland 2006 Polish regional assembly election Poland parliamentary no 2002 Polish local elections 2002 2010 Polish local elections 2010 561 seats to regional assemblies 12 November 2006 (first round)26 November 2006 (second round) 30,241,176 13,884,295 (45.91%) 1.68pp Donald Tusk, 2007 (extended).jpg 120 120 150 3 0 Donald Tusk 1 June 2003 Civic Platform 13.2%, 84 seatsAggregate results of POPiS (12.1%, 79 seats) and Civic Platform running separately in the Masovian Voivodeship (1.1%, 5 seats). 186 102 3,306,667 27.4% 14.2pp Jarosław Kaczyński, 2004.jpg 135 120 150 0 4 Jarosław Kaczyński 18 January 2003 Law and Justice 14.4%, 89 seatsAggregate results of POPiS (12.1%, 79 seats) and Law and Justice running separately in the Masovian Voivodeship (2.3%, 10 seats). 170 81 3,038,002 25.1% 10.7pp Waldemar Pawlak with Jerzy Buzek, 2009.jpg 500 120 150 10 103 Waldemar Pawlak 29 January 2005 Polish People's Party 10.8%, 58 seats 83 25 1,582,831 13.1% 2.3pp Wojciech olejniczak.jpg 148 120 150 0 8 Wojciech Olejniczak 29 May 2005 Left and Democrats 24.6%, 189 seatsAs Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union. 66 123 1,582,831 14.4% 10.2pp Andrzej Lepper in March 2007.png 152 120 150 13 14 Andrzej Lepper 10 January 1992 Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland 15.9%, 101 seats 37 64 666,876 5.6% 10.3pp Roman Giertych 2005.png 150 120 150 4 16 Roman Giertych 11 March 2006 League of Polish Families 14.3%, 92 seats 11 81 568,935 4.7% 9.6pp File:2006 Polish voivodeship sejmik elections.svg Result of the voivodeship sejmik elections thumb|200px|Lech and Maria Kaczyński The 2006 Polish local elections were held in two parts. with its first round on 12 November and the second on 26 November 2006. In the election's first round, voters chose 39,944 gmina councillors, 6,284 powiat councillors and 561 deputies to provincial voivodeship sejmiks. Additionally, 2,460 city and town mayors, borough leaders and other officials were decided by direct or runoff elections in the second round. The elections were seen as a test to the government of Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, whose coalition between his own Law and Justice party and its junior coalition partners, the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland and the League of Polish Families, had undergone a severe crisis two months prior.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5369346.stm BBC News Polish ruling coalition collapses 2006-09-22 2011-02-13 Background Following the appointment of Jarosław Kaczyński as Prime Minister following the resignation of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the coalition between Kaczyński's own rightist Law and Justice, the agrarian Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland and the Christian right League of Polish Families parties experienced deep conflict. In September 2006, Self-Defense's leader Andrzej Lepper increasingly sparred with Kaczyński over the national budget, criticizing the prime minister's stance on rural infrastructure spending and sending extra troops to assist the War in Afghanistan. Kaczyński responded by asking for Lepper's dismissal from the government. In light of the political crisis, Kaczyński sought a new coalition partner in order to avoid early elections. One month later in October, Kaczyński and Lepper reconciled, returning Self-Defense to the coalition government and reappointing Lepper as both his deputy and as Minister for Agriculture.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6057382.stm BBC News Polish PM revives ruling alliance 2006-10-16 2011-02-13 However, the coalition crisis dented the government's popularity in opinion polls. In the midst of the crisis, Kaczyński aide Adam Lipinski was secretly filmed trying to coax Self-Defense Sejm MP Renata Beger to rejoin the coalition government with financial and legal assistance.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5385616.stm BBC News Secret film sparks Polish scandal 2006-09-27 2011-02-13 Beger later handed the film to television networks. The opposition Civic Platform party seized on the scandal, organizing street demonstrations in Warsaw to demand early elections.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5416508.stm BBC News Polish rivals hold street rallies 2006-07-10 2011-02-13 The government countered the protests by drawing its supporters for demonstrations of its own, claiming the film demonstrated normal political bargaining. Results In the aftermath of the local elections' first round on 12 November, Kaczyński's Law and Justice saw intermediate gains across voivodeship sejmiks and moderate results of powiat and gmina councillor seats. Law and Justice held provincial voivodeship sejmiks in Łódź, Podkarpacie, Małopolska, Lublin, and Podlaskie.http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80708,8702771,PO_odebrala_trzy_wojewodztwa_PiS__Jak_bylo_w_poprzednich.html Gazeta.pl PO odebrała trzy województwa PiS. Jak było w poprzednich wyborach? 2010-11-22 2011-02-13 In major municipalities, the party significantly lost its majority of councillor seats in Warsaw to Civic Platform, as well as suffered setbacks in Łódź, Poznań and Kraków.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6141776.stm BBC News Polish PM faces local poll blow 2006-10-16 2011-02-13 The party's candidate for the Warsaw mayoralty, former Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, finished next to the strong showing of Civic Platform candidate Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz. However, in the second round of polls held two weeks later on 26 November, Gronkiewicz-Waltz defeated Marcinkiewicz. The defeat in Warsaw served as a blow to Kaczyński, whose brother Lech previously served as Warsaw's mayor until his election to the presidency in 2005. The government's major opposition party, Civic Platform, emerged as the winner during the election, increasing its share of representation across seats in voivodeship, county and municipal administrations. In the election results, Civic Platform gained majorities in 10 voivodeships (Warmia-Masuria, Pomerania, West Pomerania, Lubuskie, Lower Silesia, Opole, Silesia, Wielkopolska, Kujawy-Pomerania, and Masovia). The elections demonstrated a clear defeat for the Left and Democrats, the upstart coalition between the Democratic Left Alliance, Social Democracy of Poland, the Labour Union and the Democratic Party. Still suffering from the fallout of the Rywin affair and Orlengate, the Democratic Left Alliance and its leftist coalition partners lost all majorities in previously held voivodeship sejmiks and a vote decline in local races. However, the party elected candidates Jacek Majchrowski as Mayor of Krakow and Tadeusz Ferenc as Mayor of Rzeszów, though Majchrowski later suspended his party membership to become an independent. The Polish People's Party fared well during the elections. Managing to increase its share of nearly 14 percent of all powiat councillor seats and 10 percent for all gmina seats, the party was the most elected partisan organization to receive seats in municipal councils.http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80269,3738595.html Gazeta.pl Najwięcej radnych w skali kraju ma PSL 2006-11-15 2011-02-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20110522034136/http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80269,3738595.html 2011-05-22 dead Law and Justice's coalition partner, the League of Polish Families, suffered during the local elections. The government's coalition party mustered two percent of the vote in the voivodeship sejmiks, a little more than one percent in county councils, and nearly half a percentage point in gmina councils.http://www.euronews.net/2006/11/13/polish-government-survives-local-elections/ Euronews Polish government survives local elections 2010-11-13 2011-02-13 2011-07-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20110723122803/http://www.euronews.net/2006/11/13/polish-government-survives-local-elections/ dead Independent politicians or local political activists enjoyed strong results in municipal councils and in city mayoralties. Minor political parties that participated in the election and fielded candidates in more than one voivodeship include:https://wybory2006.pkw.gov.pl/kbw/geoKrajd41d.html? Geografia wyborcza 25 November 2006 pl gov.pl National Electoral Commission (Poland) People's Party “Patrimony” (pl Stronnictwo Ludowe „Ojcowizna” RP); Christian Local Movement (pl Chrześcijański Ruch Samorządowy); Polish Confederation – Dignity and Work; National Party of Retirees and Pensioners; National Revival of Poland; Polish Labour Party - August 80; Polish Socialist Party; Patriotic Self-Defence; Alliance of Democrats; Union of the Left; Real Politics Union; Self-Defence of the Polish Nation; Greens 2004; People's National Movement; Slavic Union. Turnout 12 November 26 November voting districts 33,362 11,385 electors 29,877,983 14,643,543 ballots 13,742,032 5,812,667 turnout 45.99% 39.69% Voivodship councils Electoral committee % of seats Seats #fca241 silver Civic Platform (PO) 33.16% 186 #263778 silver Law and Justice (PiS) 30.30% 170 #1bb100 silver Polish People's Party (PSL) 14.80% 83 #ff4500 silver Left and Democrats (LiD) 11.76% 66 #fad700 silver Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SRP) 6.60% 37 #2da0d2 silver League of Polish Families (LPR) 1.96% 11 #325cb4 silver German Minority (MN) 1.25% 7 #E5E4E2 silver Regional committees 0.18% 1 Total 100.00% 561 Civic Platform 3306667 186 Law and Justice 3038002 170 Left and Democrats 1736608 66 Polish People's Party 1582831 83 Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland 670745 37 League of Polish Families 568935 11 National Party of Retirees and Pensioners 358708 0 Real Politics Union 147153 0 Polish Labour Party 135538 0 Patriotic Self-Defence 77722 0 Silesian Autonomy Movement 63070 0 German Minority Electoral Committee 49131 7 Self-Governance Agreement W. Lubawski pl Porozumienie Samorządowe Self-Governance Agreement W. Lubawski 42119 1 #FFCD00 National Revival of Poland 41171 0 Christian Self-Governance Movement pl Chrześcijański Ruch Samorządowy Christian Self-Governance Movement 40306 0 #295989 Self-Governance Community of the Mazovian Voivodeship 36873 0 Defence of the Polish Nation 21577 0 Polish Confederation – Dignity and Work 19153 0 Good Self-Government 17853 0 Our Warsaw and Mazovia 16895 0 Self-Governing Agreement of the Right 16773 0 Our Podlasie 15321 0 Firemens' Electoral Committee 12610 0 Youth Together 10131 0 Belarusian Electoral Committee 7914 0 Independent Committee of Marian Jurczyk 7422 0 Faithful to Poland 7152 0 Driving Instructors' Association 5602 0 Self-Government Platform Association 5503 0 Now Częstochowa 5408 0 Self-Governing Opole 4546 0 Development and Work through the Future of Self-Governance Association 3042 0 Voivodeship Self-Governance Movement 2981 0 National Association of Social Activism 2317 0 Sławomir Gąsiorowski - lawyer Electors' Electoral Committee 2037 0 Ziemia Lubańska Doby Napoleońskiej 1821 0 Janusz Nowakowski Electors' Electoral Committee 1629 0 Jerzy Manduk "TIME" Electors' Electoral Committee 1472 0 Warmia-Mazury Economic Party 1332 0 Confederation of Independent Poland 1227 0 Your Good Choice 1082 0 LEFT - Young Socialists - Greens 990 0 Sowiński's List 851 0 Teresa Nawrocka "2b" Electors' Electoral Committee 598 0 "We Will Handle It" 553 0 Workers'-Peasants' Agreement 500 0 1792424 30241176 National Electoral CommissionSamorząd 2006 https://danewyborcze.kbw.gov.pl/index023b.html?title=Samorz%C4%85d_2006 County councils Electoral committee % of seats Seats #E5E4E2 silver Local committees 42.12% 2,647 #263778 silver Law and Justice (PiS) 19.76% 1,242 #1bb100 silver Polish People's Party (PSL) 13.80% 867 #fca241 silver Civic Platform (PO) 12.40% 779 #ff4500 silver Left and Democrats (LiD) 7.45% 468 #fad700 silver Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SRP) 3.37% 212 #2da0d2 silver League of Polish Families (LPR) 1.07% 67 #0051b4 silver National Party of Retirees and Pensioners 0.03% 2 Total 100.00% 6,284 Municipal councils Electoral committee % of seats Seats #E5E4E2 silver Local committees 71.92% 28,726 #1bb100 silver Polish People's Party (PSL) 9.74% 3,890 #263778 silver Law and Justice (PiS) 7.71% 3,079 #fca241 silver Civic Platform (PO) 4.47% 1,784 #ff4500 silver Left and Democrats (LiD) 3.40% 1,357 #fad700 silver Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SRP) 2.17% 867 #2da0d2 silver League of Polish Families (LPR) 0.59% 236 #0051b4 silver National Party of Retirees and Pensioners 0.01% 5 Total 100.00% 39,944 Mayors Electoral committee % of mayors Mayors #E5E4E2 silver Local committees 81.87% 2,014 #1bb100 silver Polish People's Party (PSL) 10.28% 253 #263778 silver Law and Justice (PiS) 3.13% 77 #fca241 silver Civic Platform (PO) 1.87% 46 #ff4500 silver Left and Democrats (LiD) 1.71% 42 #fad700 silver Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SRP) 1.02% 25 #2da0d2 silver League of Polish Families (LPR) 0.12% 3 Total 100.00% 2,460 Post election controversies Following the election, controversy erupted regarding a 2005 law, obliging the mayors of municipalities to publicly disclose their own, as well as their spouse's, financial circumstances. The law required the successful candidate's disclosure statement to be provided within 30 days after their inauguration, whereas the statement regarding the candidate's spouse was to be submitted within 30 days after the actual election. Due to the law, several elected officials resigned, while others refused. The highest profile figure affected newly elected Warsaw mayor of Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, refused to offer her resignation. Waltz submitted her and her husband's statements on 2 January 2007, exactly 30 days after her inauguration. On 20 January the newspaper Dziennik reported that Waltz's documents proceeded past the deadline by two days. Based on this, Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński maintained that Gronkiewicz-Waltz's mandate had expired on 28 December 2006, calling for new municipal elections within her jurisdiction. Gronkiewicz-Waltz and Civic Platform argued that the prime minister does not carry authority to make a decision in this matter, and that the case instead be examined by a court. Legal experts maintained that by submitting their statements on the same day, Gronkiewicz-Waltz observed the spirit, if not the letter of the law. Also, having two different deadlines for the statements could be considered as an unconstitutional legal trap. In the meantime, the opposition Civic Platform party announced that it would renominate Gronkiewicz-Waltz should the elections be repeated. On 13 March 2007 the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland ruled against the government, striking down the law. However, those officials who previously resigned were not allowed to return to their posts.July 2025 References 2 Notes External links National Electoral Commission - official results 2006 Polish local election - wp.pl 2006 Category:2006 elections in Poland Category:History of Poland (1989–present) Category:November 2006 in Poland