1965 Polish parliamentary election

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30 June 1965 (1965-06-30)

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All 460 seats in the Sejm

	First party

Leader	Władysław Gomułka
Party	FJN - PZPR
Seats won	460
Seat change

Premier before election

Józef Cyrankiewicz
PZPR

New Premier

Józef Cyrankiewicz
PZPR

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 30 May 1965. They were the fourth elections to the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland, and fifth in Communist Poland. They took place on 30 May. The lists admitted were controlled by the Front of National Unity (FJN), in turn controlled by the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR).

The distribution of seats was decided before the elections by the FJN, with voters having no possibility to change it. The results of the 1965 election would be exactly duplicated by the 1969 and 1972 elections.

Results

Of the 49 independents, five were affiliated with Znak, five with the PAX Association and three with the Christian Social Association [pl]. As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total.



Party or alliance			Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Front of National Unity	Polish United Workers' Party	18,742,152	98.81	255	–1
		United People's Party			117	0
		Democratic Party			39	0
		Independents			49	+1
Blank ballots			226,324	1.19	–	–
Total			18,968,476	100.00	460	0

Valid votes			18,968,476	99.93
Invalid votes			13,840	0.07
Total votes			18,982,316	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			19,645,803	96.62
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
"Archive of data on MPs. 1965-1969 - IV". Sejm.
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.
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.

Jerzy Drygalski, Jacek Kwasniewski, No-Choice Elections, Soviet Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 295–315, JSTOR
George Sakwa, Martin Crouch, Sejm Elections in Communist Poland: An Overview and a Reappraisal, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Oct., 1978), pp. 403–424, JSTOR
Informacja o dziatalnoici Sejmu PRL. (IV kadencja 1965-1969) (Warsaw: Sejm Chancellory Publications, 1969),

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