Polish legislative election, 1952 was the first election to the Sejm (parliament) of People's Republic of Poland (and second in the communist Poland). They took place on 26 October. The official rules for the elections were outlined in the new Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland and lesser acts. An election is a decision making process where people choose people to hold official offices. ... The Sejm building in Warsaw. ... A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom. ... Capital Warsaw Language(s) Polish Government Socialist republic President  - 1947-1952 BolesÅ‚aw Bierut  - 1983-1989 Wojciech Jaruzelski Prime minister  - 1944-1947 E. Osóbka-Morawski  - 1947-1952 and 1954-1970 Józef Cyrankiewicz  - 1952-1954 BolesÅ‚aw Bierut  - 1970-1980 Piotr Jaroszewicz  - 1980 Edward Babiuch  - 1980-1981 Józef... The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet Communist dominance over the Peoples Republic of Poland in the decades following World War II. These years, while featuring many improvements in the standards of living in Poland, were marred by political instability, social unrest, and... The Constitution of the Peoples Republic of Poland (also known as July Constitution or Constitution of 1952) was passed on 22 July 1952. ...

The elections, as all the others in under the communist regimes in Poland, were not free and falsified, again a common occurrence of that time. Along with the Polish legislative election, 1947 they are considered the least free of the elections in Poland, an occurrence common during the era of Stalinization when communist government tried to tighten its control of the society as much as possible. Opposition was persecuted, up to arrests and torture; and not allowed to run in the elections. Candidates were vetted by communist party organization, Front Jedności Narodowej, and number of candidates permitted to run in the elections were equal to the number of seats in the parliament.^[1] The Polish legislative election, 1947 was held on January 19, 1947 in the Peoples Republic of Poland. ... Joseph Stalin Stalinism is the political and economic system named after Joseph Stalin, who implemented it in the Soviet Union. ...

The official results for frequency were 99,8%%. Communist party's candidates were successful.

The Sejm elected in 1951 was supposed to be replaced in elections of 1956, but due to political shifts in Poland, the new elections took place in early 1957 in a more liberal atmosphere (although still not free).^[1] The Polish legislative election, 1957 was the second election to the Sejm (parliament) of the Peoples Republic of Poland (and the third in the communist Poland). ...

See also

• Polish legislative election, 1947 - first elections under communist regime in Poland
• Polish legislative election, 1989 - last elections under communust regime in Poland

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External links

• (Polish) List of members of Polish Sejm from 1952 to 1956 on Polish Wikipedia

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,

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