The State Election Commission has published data from all voting districts. They show that in Sunday’s election, the Law and Justice party won 35.4 % of the vote and the largest opposition party, the Civic Coalition, won 30.7 % of the vote. This year’s elections saw a record turnout with 74.4 % of eligible Poles taking part in them.

“On Sunday we really showed that we are responsibly taking matters into our own hands. I can say that because I also took part as a voter”, President Andrzej Duda said in Rome on Monday.

“We are all waiting for the State Electoral Commission to complete its work. I would like to thank once again all voters, all my compatriots who took part in the elections both in Poland and abroad. I am very grateful for this”, stressed Andrzej Duda.

The following parties will be also represented in the Sejm in the completed elections: The Third Way with 14.4 % of the vote, the New Left Party with 8.6 % of the vote and the Confederation with 7.2 % of the vote.

The incumbent Law and Justice party received 7,640,000 votes of Poles. On the other hand, the three opposition groupings (Civic Coalition, Third Way, and New Left) received a total of nearly 11 million 600 thousand votes.

According to preliminary estimates, in the Polish Sejm, which is composed of 460 MPs, the parties will be represented as follows: Law and Justice – 194 MPs, Civic Coalition – 157, Third Way – 65, New Left – 26, Confederation – 18.

The three opposition groups would then have a total of 248 MPs (the majority in the Polish Sejm is 231) and would be able to form a new government. The leaders of the opposition parties have already announced talks on the matter.

The counting of results in the Senate elections is also coming to an end. The opposition grouped in the Senate Pact will have 66 senators and Law and Justice 34.

Adrian Andrzejewski