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Polish parliamentary election, 2001
All 460 seats in the Sejm and all 100 seats in the Senate
21 September 2001 (2001-09-21)
		First party	Second party	Third party
Leader		Leszek Miller	Maciej Płażyński	Andrzej Lepper
Party		Democratic Left Alliance	Civic Platform	Self-Defence
Leader since		December 1997	24 January 2001	10 January 1992
Leader's seat		Lodz	Danzig	Koslin
Last election		164 seats, 35.7%	N/A	N/A
Seats won		216	65	53
Seat change		+52	+65	+53
Popular vote		5,342,519	1,651,099	1,327,624
Percentage		41%	12.7%	10.2%
Swing		+9.2%	+12.7%	+10.1%
		Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party
Leader		Lech Kaczyński	Jarosław Kalinowski	Roman Giertych
Party		Law and Justice	Polish People's Party	League of Polish Families
Leader since		22 March 2001	11 October 1997	21 April 2001
Leader's seat		Danzig	Siedlce	Warsaw II
Last election		N/A	27 seats, 5.9%	N/A
Seats won		44	42	38
Seat change		+44	+15	+38
Popular vote		1,236,787	1,168,659	1,025,148
Percentage		9.5%	9%	7.9%
Swing		+9.5%	+1.7%	+7.9
Incumbent Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek Solidarity Electoral Action New Primer Minister Leszek Miller Democratic Left Alliance

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Polish parliamentary election in 2001 to Sejm and Senate of Poland were held on the 23rd September. In Sejm elections, 46.29% of citizens cast their votes, 96.01% of those were counted as valid. In Senate elections, 46.28% of citizens cast their votes, 96.46% were valid. The elections were won by the centre-left party of Democratic Left Alliance.

Sejm election

German Minority - 2 MPs
Total: 460 MPs

Senat election

Total: 100 senators.

[edit] References

• Obwieszczenie Państwowej Komisji Wyborczej z dn. 26 IX 1997 r., Monitor Polski. Nr 109, poz. 1186
• Obwieszczenie PKW z dn. 26 IX 2001 r., Dz.U. Nr 109, poz. 1187
• The Polish Voice, 2001, Nr 12 (http://www2.warsawvoice.pl/tpv_old/12/PV01.html)

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