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Polish parliamentary election, 1991
All 460 seats in the Sejm and all 100 seats in the Senate
27 October 1991 (1991-10-27)
		First party	Second party	Third party
Leader		Tadeusz Mazowiecki	Aleksander Kwaśniewski	Wiesław Chrzanowski
Party		Democratic Union	Democratic Left Alliance	Catholic Election Action
Leader since		May 1991	30 January 1990	1989
Leader's seat		Poznan	Warsaw	Lublin
Last election		N/A	173 seats, 37.6%	N/A
Seats won		62 seats	60	49
Seat change		+62	-113	+49
Popular vote		1,382,051	1,344,820	980,304
Percentage		12.3%	12%	8.7%
Swing		+12.3%	+8.7%
		Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party
Leader		Jarosław Kaczyński	Waldemar Pawlak	Leszek Moczulski
Party		Centre Alliance	Polish People's Party	Confederation for an Independent Poland
Leader since		12 May 1990	29 June 1991	1 September 1979
Leader's seat		Warsaw	Plock	Krakow
Last election		N/A	76 seats, 16.5%	N/A
Seats won		44	48	46
Seat change		+44	-28	+46
Popular vote		977,344	972,952	841,738
Percentage		8.7%	8.7%	7.5%
Swing		+8.7%	%	+7.5%
Incumbent Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki Liberal Democratic Congress New Primer Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki Liberal Democratic Congress

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The Polish parliamentary election in 1991 to the Sejm and the Senate of Poland was held on October 27. In the Sejm elections, 27,517,280 citizens were eligible to vote, 11,887,949 (43.2%) of them cast their votes, 11,218,602 (94.4%) of those were counted as valid. In the Senate elections, 43.2% of citizens cast their votes, 96.5% were valid. It was the first entirely free election held in Poland since 1922. No political party obtained a decisive majority and a coalition government had to be formed. 460 members of parliament (poseł) were elected; 391 from 6980 candidates from 37 regional lists of candidates and 69 from country-wide lists of candidates.

Elections were supervised by the National Electoral Commission (Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza). 37 regional (okręgowe) commissions were formed, and 22,341 district (obwodowe), staffed by 197,389 citizens.

A remarkable 111 parties competed and 29 parties (listed below) won Parliamentary seats. The success of the frivilous Polish Beer-Lovers' Party with 16 seats gained news coverage worldwide.

Senate election

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• Obwieszczenie Państwowej Komisji Wyborczej z dn. 31 X 1991 r., Monitor Polski. Nr 41, poz. 288
• Obwieszczenie PKW z dn. 30 X 1991 r., M.P. Nr 41, poz. 287

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