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Labour Union Unia Pracy
Leader	Waldemar Witkowski
Founded	7 June 1992
Merger of	Democratic-Social Movement Polish Social Democratic Union Labour Solidarity
Headquarters	Ul. Nowogrodzka 4, 00-513Warsaw
Youth wing	Labour Youth
Ideology	Social democracy Progressivism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-left[1]
National affiliation	The Left
European Parliament group	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Colours	Red
Sejm	0 / 460
Senate	1 / 100
European Parliament	0 / 53
Regional assemblies	0 / 552
Website
uniapracy.org.pl
Politics of Poland Political parties Elections

Labour Union (Polish:Unia Pracy,UP) is a minorsocial-democratic^[1][2][3]political party inPoland. It was a member of theParty of European Socialists (PES) until April 2022.^[4]

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Labour Union was formed in June 1992. The party contested the1993 parliamentary elections, obtaining 7.28% of the popular vote and had 41 representatives elected to the lower house (Sejm). In the followingparliamentary elections of 1997, UP received only 4.74% of votes, thereby falling short of the required 5% threshold for election to the Sejm. At the2001 parliamentary elections, UP entered into anelectoral alliance with the major Polish social-democratic partyDemocratic Left Alliance (SLD), and managed to get 16 of its members elected to parliament. Some of those members subsequently left UP to join the newly createdSocial Democracy of Poland (SDPL), a splinter group from the SLD. In May 2004, UP signed an alliance with SDPL, in which both parties agreed to jointly contest the following parliamentary elections under the SDPL banner, and to support the candidacy ofMarek Borowski in the2005 presidential election. At the2005 parliamentary elections, SDPL gained only 3.9% of the vote, which was insufficient for the alliance to achieve parliamentary representation.

In 2006, UP joined SLD, SDPL and the liberalDemocratic Party – demokraci.pl to form acentre-leftelectoral alliance namedLeft and Democrats (LiD) for the upcoming local elections. This electoral alliance was maintained for the2007 parliamentary elections, and LiD came in third place with 13.2% of the vote, which saw 53 of its candidates elected to the Sejm. Unfortunately for UP, the party was the only one of the four component parties of the LiD alliance not to have any of its candidates elected.

In the2011 parliamentary elections, its candidates joined the electoral lists of SLD. Again, none of them were elected.

They managed, however, to win one seat on the European Parliament elections in 2004; the party held it in the elections in 2009 and 2014.^[5]

In July 2015, the party joined theZjednoczona Lewica (United Left)electoral alliance for the2015 parliamentary elections. The alliance received 7.6% vote of the vote in the elections, below the 8% electoral threshold leaving it with no parliamentary representation. The alliance was dissolved in February 2016.

In the2019 parliamentary election, Labour Union candidates ran on theCivic Coalition’s electoral lists; again, none of their candidates managed to get elected.

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Government
1993	1,005,004	7.3 (#4)	41 / 460	New	SLD-PSL (1993) (confidence and supply)
					SLD-PSL (1994-1997)
1997	620,611	4.7 (#6)	0 / 460	41	Extra-parliamentary
2001	5,342,519	41.0 (#1)	16 / 460	New	SLD-UP-PSL (2001-2003)
					SLD-UP (2003-2004)
					SLD-UP-SDPL (2004-2005)
	As part of theSLD-UP coalition, that won 216 seats in total.
2005	459,380	3.9 (#7)	0 / 460	16	Extra-parliamentary
	In anelectoral alliance withSocial Democracy of Poland andGreens 2004, that won no seats.
2007	2,122,981	13.2 (#3)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary
	As part of theLeft and Democrats coalition, that won 53 seats in total.
2011	1,184,303	8.24 (#5)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary
	In anelectoral alliance withDemocratic Left Alliance, that won 27 seats in total.
2015	1,147,102	7.55 (#5)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary
	As part of theUnited Left coalition, that won no seats.
2019	5,060,355	27.4 (#2)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary
	As part ofCivic Coalition, that won 134 seats in total.
2023	1,859,018	8.6 (#4)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary
	As part ofThe Left, that won 26 seats in total.

Election	Seats	+/–
1993	2 / 100	New
1997	0 / 100	2
2001	5 / 100	5
	As part of theSLD-UP coalition.
2005	0 / 100	5
2007	0 / 100
2023	1 / 100	1
	As part ofSenate Pact 2023.

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/−	EP Group
2004	569,311	9.35 (#5)	1 / 54	New	PES
	As part of theSLD-UP coalition, that won 5 seats in total.
2009	908,765	12.34 (#3)	1 / 50	0	S&D
	As part of theSLD-UP coalition, that won 7 seats in total.
2014	667,319	9.97 (#3)	1 / 51	0	S&D
	As part of theSLD-UP coalition, that won 5 seats in total.
2019	168,745	1.24 (#6)	0 / 52	1	−
	As part of the Left Together coalition, that didn't win any seat.
2024	741,071	6.30 (#5)	0 / 53	0	−
	As part ofThe Left coalition, that won 3 seats in total.

Election year	% of vote	# of overall seats won	+/–
1998	12.0 (#3)	89 / 855	89
	As part of theSocial Alliance.
2002	24.6 (#1)	189 / 561	100
	AsDemocratic Left Alliance – Labour Union.
2006	14.2 (#4)	66 / 561	123
	As part of theLeft and Democrats.
2010	15.2 (#4)	85 / 561	19
	AsDemocratic Left Alliance – Labour Union.
2014	8.8 (#4)	28 / 555	57
	As part ofSLD Lewica Razem.
2018	6.6 (#4)	11 / 552	17
	As part ofSLD Lewica Razem.

• Waldemar Witkowski
• Marek Pol

• Adam Gierek (2004–2019)^[5]

• Ryszard Bugaj, left in 1998
• Zbigniew Bujak, until c.1997
• Tomasz Nałęcz, left in 2004 to newly createdSocial Democracy of Poland
• Aleksander Małachowski, died January 26, 2004
• Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, left in 2005, foundedUnion of the Left

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