1965 Polish parliamentary election

none Polish People's Republic parliamentary 1961 Polish parliamentary election 1961 1969 Polish parliamentary election 1969 All 460 seats in the Sejm yes 1965 06 30 Wladyslaw Gomulka.jpg Władysław Gomułka Polish United Workers' Party Front of National Unity 460 Premier New Premier Józef Cyrankiewicz Polish United Workers' Party Józef Cyrankiewicz Polish United Workers' Party120px|thumb|right|Czesław Wycech, leader of puppet United People's Party Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 30 May 1965.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 978-3-8329-5609-7 They were the fourth elections to the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland, and fifth in Communist Poland. They took place on 30 May. The lists admitted were controlled by the Front of National Unity (FJN), in turn controlled by the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). The distribution of seats was decided before the elections by the FJN, with voters having no possibility to change it. The results of the 1965 election would be exactly duplicated by the 1969 and 1972 elections. Results Of the 49 independents, five were affiliated with Znak, five with the PAX Association and three with the Christian Social Association pl Chrześcijańskie Stowarzyszenie Społeczne.Archive of data on MPs. 1965-1969 - IV. Sejm https://orka.sejm.gov.pl/ArchAll2.nsf As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total.Andrzej Paczkowski Jane Cave The spring will be ours: Poland and the Poles from occupation to freedom https://books.google.com/books?id=WoKQWem2yl4C&pg=PA229 3 June 2011 2003 Penn State Press 978-0-271-02308-3 229Norman Davies God's Playground: 1795 to the present https://archive.org/details/godsplaygroundhi00norm_0 registration 3 June 2011 May 2005 Columbia University Press 978-0-231-12819-3 459 File:Poland Sejm 1965.svg Front of National Unity 4 Polish United Workers' Party 18742152 4 255 –1 United People's Party 117 0 Democratic Party 39 0 Independents 49 +1 Blank ballots 226324 y 13840 0 19645803 Nohlen & Stöver References Further reading Jerzy Drygalski, Jacek Kwasniewski, No-Choice Elections, Soviet Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 295–315, JSTOR George Sakwa, Martin Crouch, Sejm Elections in Communist Poland: An Overview and a Reappraisal, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Oct., 1978), pp. 403–424, JSTOR Informacja o dziatalnoici Sejmu PRL. (IV kadencja 1965-1969) (Warsaw: Sejm Chancellory Publications, 1969), Poland Category:Parliamentary elections in Poland Category:Elections in the Polish People's Republic Poland Parliamentary