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Encyclopedia > Polish legislative election, 1961

Polish legislative election, 1961 was the third election to the Sejm (parliament) of People's Republic of Poland (and fourth in the communist Poland). They took place on 15 April. 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...


They followed the liberalized rules prepared for the Polish legislative election, 1957, but compared to the situation five years ago the Polish society was much more apathetic and disappointed with the government. The elections, as all the others in under the communist regimes in Poland, were not free and the results of the 1961 elections are considered to be falsified, again a common occurrence of that time.[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). ...


The official results were: frequency, 95%. Communist party's list prepared by Front Jedności Narodowej received 98% votes. 460 members were elected, 255 from PZPR, 117 from ZSL, 39 from SD, 49 'independent' and 5 to 'Catholic independent'.[1] The Polish United Workers Party (PUWP; in Polish, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), was the governing political party in communist-ruled Poland from its creation (through a fusion of the communist Polish Workers Party and the left wing of the Polish Socialist Party) in December 1948 until the regimes... The Democratic Party () is a liberal party in Poland, founded in May 9, 2005 as an enlargement of the Freedom Union (Unia Wolności). ...

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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

References

  1. ^ a b (Polish) Wojciech Roszkowski, NATOLIŃCZYCY I PUŁAWIANIE. Last accessed on 5 April 2007.

See also

The Polish legislative election, 1947 was held on January 19, 1947 in the Peoples Republic of Poland. ... Contract Sejm (Polish: ) is a term commonly applied to the Polish Parliament elected in the Polish parliamentary elections of 1989. ...

External links

  • (Polish) List of members of Polish Sejm from 1961 to 1965 on Polish Wikipedia
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