2005 Polish parliamentary election

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The 2005 Polish parliamentary election was a national legislative vote in Poland that led to a major political shift, bringing the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) to power.

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instanceOf parliamentary election
abbreviationOfWinningParty PiS
appliesToJurisdiction Republic of Poland
country Poland
date 2005-09-25
electoralBody Sejm
Senate of Poland
electoralThresholdForCoalitions 8%
electoralThresholdForParties 5%
followedBy 2007 Polish parliamentary election
languageOfOfficialMaterials Polish
leaderOfWinningParty Jarosław Kaczyński
legislativeTermStart 5th term Sejm of the Third Republic of Poland
6th term Senate of the Third Republic of Poland
legislatureElected Sejm of the Republic of Poland
Senate of the Republic of Poland
linked to: Senate of Poland
location Poland
mainOppositionPartyBeforeElection Civic Platform
mainWinningParty Law and Justice
majorCompetingParty Civic Platform
Democratic Left Alliance
League of Polish Families
Polish People’s Party
Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland
partOf 2005 elections
2005 elections in Europe
elections in Poland
politicalOrientationOfWinningParty conservative
right-wing
precededBy 2001 Polish parliamentary election
primeMinisterAfterElection Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
primeMinisterBeforeElection Marek Belka
resultedInCoalitionGovernmentWith League of Polish Families
Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland
resultedInCoalitionPotentialWith Civic Platform
resultedInGovernmentLedBy Law and Justice
rulingPartyBeforeElection Democratic Left Alliance
sejmSeatsContested 460
senateSeatsContested 100
significance brought conservative Law and Justice party to power
tookPlaceInContextOf Third Polish Republic
tookPlaceOnDayOfWeek Sunday
typeOfShift major political shift to the right
usedConstituencyType multi-member constituencies
usedSeatAllocationMethod D’Hondt method
linked to: d’Hondt method
voterTurnoutDescription low turnout
voterTurnoutPercentage 40.6
votingSystemForSejm open-list proportional representation
proportional representation
votingSystemForSenate plurality voting
year 2005

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PiS wonParliamentaryElection 2005 Polish parliamentary election
Polish parliamentary election, 2001 nextElection Polish parliamentary election, 2005
linked to: 2005 Polish parliamentary election