2023 Polish parliamentary election

2023 Polish parliamentary election

15 October 2023
Opinion polls
Registered29,532,595
Sejm

All 460 seats in the Sejm
231 seats needed for a majority
Turnout21,966,891 (74.38%)
12.6pp
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Mateusz Morawiecki Donald Tusk Szymon Hołownia
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
Party PiS PO PL2050 / PSL
Alliance United Right Civic Coalition Third Way
Leader since 11 December 2017 3 July 2021 27 March 2022 (Hołownia)
7 November 2015 (Kosiniak-Kamysz)
Last election 43.6%, 235 seats 27.4%, 134 seats 8.6%, 30 seats
Seats won 194 157 65
Seat change 41 23 35
Popular vote 7,640,854 6,629,402 3,110,670
Percentage 35.4% 30.7% 14.4%
Swing 8.2 pp 3.3 pp 5.8 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Włodzimierz Czarzasty
Robert Biedroń
Sławomir Mentzen
Krzysztof Bosak
Party NL NN / RN
Alliance The Left Confederation
Leader since 9 October 2021 15 October 2022 (Mentzen)
12 May 2023 (Bosak)
Last election 12.6%, 49 seats 6.8%, 11 seats
Seats won 26 18
Seat change 23 7
Popular vote 1,859,018 1,547,364
Percentage 8.6% 7.2%
Swing 4.0 pp 0.4 pp
Senate

All 100 seats in the Senate
51 seats needed for a majority
Turnout21,944,884 (74.31%)
12.6pp
Party Vote % Seats +/–
PO (PS) 28.91 41 −2
ZP 34.81 34 −14
TD (PS) 11.50 11 +8
Lewica (PS) 5.29 9 +7
Independent (PS) 2.68 4 New
Independent 2.53 1 −3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Government before Government after election
Second Morawiecki cabinet
PiS (ZP)
Third Tusk cabinet
KOPSLPL2050NL

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 15 October 2023 to elect members of the Sejm and Senate. A referendum containing four questions concerning economic and immigration policy of the government was held simultaneously.

In the previous 2019 Polish parliamentary election, the ruling right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) had held onto its majority in the Sejm with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki forming a second government. The PiS sought to win a third term which would be unprecedented in Polish history. The opposition, including the Civic Platform Party and others, secured a Senate majority. In the lead-up to the 2023 elections, opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, led the Civic Coalition political alliance in opposition to the PiS.

The United Right alliance placed first for the third straight election and won a plurality of seats but fell short of a Sejm majority. The opposition, consisting of the Civic Coalition, Third Way, and The Left, achieved a combined total vote of 54%, managing to form a majority coalition government. In the Senate, the opposition electoral alliance Senate Pact 2023 won a plurality of the vote and a majority of seats. Voter turnout was 74.4%, the highest in contested elections and the highest since the fall of the communist Polish People's Republic, beating previous records set in 1989 and 2019.