1972 Polish parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 19 March 1972.[1] The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1965 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1969 and 1972 elections. The results of the next, 1976 election, would be only marginally different.
Results[edit]
| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |||
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| Front of National Unity | Polish United Workers' Party | 21,746,242 | 99.53 | 255 | 0 | ||
| United People's Party | 117 | 0 | |||||
| Democratic Party | 39 | 0 | |||||
| Independents | 49 | 0 | |||||
| Blank ballots | 103,155 | 0.47 | – | – | |||
| Total | 21,849,397 | 100.00 | 460 | 0 | |||
| Valid votes | 21,849,397 | 99.98 | |||||
| Invalid votes | 5,084 | 0.02 | |||||
| Total votes | 21,854,481 | 100.00 | |||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 22,313,851 | 97.94 | |||||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||||
As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total.[2][3]
References[edit]
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Norman Davies (May 2005). God's Playground: 1795 to the present. Columbia University Press. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-231-12819-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ Andrzej Paczkowski; Jane Cave (2003). The spring will be ours: Poland and the Poles from occupation to freedom. Penn State Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-271-02308-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
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