June 1989 Polish elections

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/June_1989_Polish_elections
GPTKB entity
Statements (43)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:politics
gptkbp:allowed_opposition_to_contest 35% of Sejm seats
all Senate seats
gptkbp:country gptkb:Poland
gptkbp:date 18 June 1989
4 June 1989
gptkbp:first_free_elections_since gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:followedBy formation of Tadeusz Mazowiecki government
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label June 1989 Polish elections
gptkbp:impact inspired other Eastern Bloc countries
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Contract_Sejm_election
gptkbp:legislature gptkb:Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:location gptkb:Poland
gptkbp:mediaCoverage gptkb:Gazeta_Wyborcza
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:Lech_Wałęsa
gptkb:Bronisław_Geremek
gptkb:Jacek_Kuroń
gptkb:Tadeusz_Mazowiecki
gptkb:Adam_Michnik
gptkb:Wojciech_Jaruzelski
gptkb:Czesław_Kiszczak
gptkb:Mieczysław_Rakowski
gptkbp:opposedBy Solidarity
gptkbp:part_of gptkb:Polish_Round_Table_Agreement
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Polish_Round_Table_Talks
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall
gptkb:Revolutions_of_1989
gptkb:Velvet_Revolution
gptkb:Hungarian_transition_to_democracy
gptkbp:resultedIn Solidarity victory
end of communist rule in Poland
gptkbp:ruling_party gptkb:Polish_United_Workers'_Party
gptkbp:seatingCapacity 100 (Senate)
161 (Sejm)
gptkbp:significance beginning of the end of communism in Eastern Europe
gptkbp:Solidarity_seats_won_(Sejm) 160
gptkbp:Solidarity_seats_won_(Senate) 99
gptkbp:type gptkb:politics
gptkbp:voterTurnout 25% (second round)
62.7% (first round)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Solidarity_movement
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5