2010 Polish regional assembly election

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561 seats toregional assemblies
Registered	30,608,506
Turnout	14,494,179 (47.35%) 1.44pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Donald Tusk Jarosław Kaczyński Waldemar Pawlak Party PO PiS PSL Leader since 1 June 2003 18 January 2003 29 January 2005 Last election 27.1%, 186 seats 25.0%, 170 seats 13.2%, 83 seats Seats won 222 141 93 Seat change 36 29 10 Popular vote 3,930,210 2,931,867 2,073,234 Percentage 30.9% 23.1% 16.3% Swing 3.8pp 1.9pp 3.1pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Grzegorz Napieralski Rafał Dutkiewicz Ryszard Galla Party SLD ODŚ MN Leader since 31 May 2008 26 January 2008 25 September 2005 Last election 14.2%, 66 seats Did not exist 0.4%, 7 seats Seats won 85 9 6 Seat change 19 Did not exist 1 Popular vote 1,933,913 208,867 53,670 Percentage 15.2% 1.6% 0.4% Swing 1.0pp Did not exist 0.0pp
Result of thevoivodeship sejmik elections

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The2010 Polish local elections were held in two parts, with its first round on 21 November and the second on 5 December. The first round included elections of deputies to provincialvoivodeship sejmiks, as well forgmina andpowiat councilors. The second round of elections were marked formayors,borough leaders, and other positions decided by runoff elections. The local elections were seen as a test to the rulingCivic Platform andPolish People's Party coalitiongovernment under Prime MinisterDonald Tusk.^[1]

As the first polls since theJuly presidential elections, which sawCivic Platform candidate Bronisław Komorowski defeatLaw and Justice MP and formerPrime MinisterJarosław Kaczyński, the 2010 local elections were characterized as a test to the administration ofDonald Tusk. In the weeks prior to the elections, polls conducted by theCBOS Institute showed the ruling Civic Platform party with a comfortable lead over its rivals.^[2] The oppositionLaw and Justice electoral campaign faced multiple challenges prior to the elections. Polls published in the days leading up to the first round indicated low support for the party.^[3] In a related addition, a severe internal party crisis regarding Kaczyński's leadership and the party's ideological direction, simmering among several of the party's more moderate MPs in theSejm for several months prior, exploded into the open days before the election. The rebel MPs, led by expelled party memberJoanna Kluzik-Rostkowska, formed thePoland Comes First parliamentary group on 16 November.^[4] The party split further undermined confidence to the government's opposition.

Due to mandates in Polish law, all electioneering, poll surveys, and campaigning ceased on 20 November, in the period known as the "election silence."^[5]

Following the tabulated results of the election's first round, Civic Platform emerged with a victory, increasing its profile across provincial, county, and municipal councils. Invoivodeship sejmiks, Civic Platform won control of 12voivodeships, and tied for first place in another.^[6] The party's national junior coalition partner, thePolish People's Party, won outright inŚwiętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Law and Justice received a majority in two voivodeships. Following the results, Prime Minister Tusk and Deputy Prime MinisterWaldemar Pawlak agreed to extend their coalition into local administrations.^[7] Civic Platform performed well in countypowiat councils, and also significantly raised its electoral profile in municipalgmina councils.

The Polish People's Party also emerged as a winner following the elections, capturing a strong 16 percent of the vote, exceeding previous expectations from pre-election polling. In powiat councils, the party particularly increased its share thanks to its strong connections to local politics.^[6] In gmina elections, the party expanded gains from the previous2006 local elections.^[8]

Law and Justice suffered defeats in all voivodeship, powiat and gmina council tiers of government. While the defeat did not signify a total collapse as survey polls previously suggested, the results pointed towards a general trend of decline for therightist party, with critics pointing to the perceived aloofness of its party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński.^[6]

The center-leftDemocratic Left Alliance also benefited during the elections. Although pushed to fourth place by the surprising gains of the Polish People's Party, the Democratic Left Alliance increased their numbers in provincial voivodeship sejmiks and powiat councils, though the party suffered losses in gmina council elections.^[8]

While Civic Platform achieved considerable success in the outright reelection ofHanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz asMayor of Warsaw without a second round, the electorate continued to lean for nonpartisanindependent mayors. Independent candidates led in over half of the country's 18 largest cities against mainstream party candidates.^[6] Civic Platform's attempts to unseat independent mayors inKraków,Katowice,Poznań,Toruń andWrocław all ended in defeat.^[9]

In the county and municipal levels,independent candidates and local political committees captured the most votes, retaining 38 percent of all county councilor seats and over 71 percent of all municipal councilor seats.

The turnout in the first round was 47.32%, and in the second round - 35.31%.

	Electoral committee	% of seats	Seats	/
	Civic Platform (PO)	39.57%	222	36
	Law and Justice (PiS)	25.13%	141	29
	Polish People's Party (PSL)	16.68%	93	10
	Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)	15.15%	85	9
	Citizens of Lower Silesia (ODŚ)	1.60%	9	3
	German Minority (MN)	0.89%	6	1
	Silesian Autonomy Movement (RAŚ)	0.53%	3	3
	Regional committees	0.36%	2	1
	Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SRP)	--	0	37
	League of Polish Families (LPR)	--	0	11
	Total	100.00%	561

	Electoral committee	% of seats	Seats	/
	Local committees	38.12%	2,398	249
	Civic Platform (PO)	20.91%	1,315	536
	Law and Justice (PiS)	17,25%	1,085	146
	Polish People's Party (PSL)	15,88%	999	132
	Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)	7.84%	493	25
	Total	100.00%	6,290

	Electoral committee	% of seats	Seats	/
	Local committees	71.5%	28,480	246
	Polish People's Party (PSL)	11%	4,381	483
	Law and Justice (PiS)	7%	2,782	194
	Civic Platform (PO)	6.82%	2,719	1,122
	Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)	3.68%	1,466	130
	Total	100.00%	39,828

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