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1922 Polish parliamentary election
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| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| country | Poland | |
| flag_year | 1919 | |
| type | legislative | |
| previous_election | 1919 Polish parliamentary election | |
| previous_year | 1919 | |
| next_election | 1928 Polish parliamentary election | |
| next_year | 1928 | |
| turnout | 67.9% | |
| seats_for_election | All 444 seats in the Sejm | |
| election_date | (Sejm) | |
| (Senat) | ||
| image1 | ||
| leader1 | ||
| leader_since1 | November 1920 | |
| party1 | ChZJN | |
| color1 | 000000 | |
| last_election1 | 140 | |
| seats1 | 163 | |
| seat_change1 | 23 | |
| popular_vote1 | 2,551,582 | |
| percentage1 | 29.1% | |
| image2 | ||
| leader2 | Yitzhak Gruenbaum | |
| leader_since2 | 1922 | |
| party2 | Bloc of National Minorities | |
| last_election2 | – | |
| seats2 | 66 | |
| seat_change2 | New | |
| popular_vote2 | 1,398,250 | |
| percentage2 | 16.0% | |
| image3 | ||
| leader3 | Wincenty Witos | |
| leader_since3 | 1 December 1918 | |
| party3 | Polish People's Party "Piast" (1913–1931) | |
| last_election3 | 46 | |
| seats3 | 70 | |
| seat_change3 | 24 | |
| popular_vote3 | 1,153,397 | |
| percentage3 | 13.2% | |
| image4 | ||
| leader4 | Stanisław Thugutt | |
| leader_since4 | 1921 | |
| party4 | Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" | |
| last_election4 | 59 | |
| seats4 | 49 | |
| seat_change4 | 10 | |
| popular_vote4 | 963,385 | |
| percentage4 | 11.0% | |
| image5 | ||
| leader5 | Ignacy Daszyński | |
| leader_since5 | 1921 | |
| party5 | Polish Socialist Party | |
| color5 | FF0000 | |
| last_election5 | 35 | |
| seats5 | 41 | |
| seat_change5 | 6 | |
| popular_vote5 | 906,537 | |
| percentage5 | 10.3% | |
| image6 | ||
| leader6 | Jan Stanisław Jankowski | |
| leader_since6 | 1920 | |
| party6 | National Workers' Party | |
| last_election6 | 32 | |
| seats6 | 18 | |
| seat_change6 | 14 | |
| popular_vote6 | 473,676 | |
| percentage6 | 5.4% | |
| map_image | [[File:1922 Polish Election.png | 400px]] |
| map_caption | Results by constituency | |
| title | Prime Minister | |
| before_election | Julian Nowak | |
| before_party | ||
| after_election | Władysław Sikorski | |
| after_party | Independent politician |
(Senat)
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 5 November 1922, with Senate elections held a week later on 12 November. The elections were governed by the March Constitution of Poland, and saw the Christian Union of National Unity coalition emerge as the largest bloc in the Sejm with 163 of the 444 seats.
The resulting coalitions were unstable, and the situation - difficult from the start, with assassination of Polish president Gabriel Narutowicz in December shortly after the elections - culminated in 1926 with the May Coup.
Results
Sejm
Senate
Ethnoreligious voting analysis
According to Kopstein and Wittenberg, 39% of the majority Catholic population voted for right-wing parties, 29% for non-revolutionary left-wing parties and 25% for centrist parties. The other ethnoreligious groups, including Uniates, Jews and Orthodox Christians voted largely for parties representing minority groups.
Some regional differences were observed; in western Poland, 9% of the Catholic vote went to minority interest parties, which has been attributed in part to German Catholic voting, but in the east, only 1% did. Ethnic Polish support for the right wing was stronger in the east of the country, where 40% voted for right-wing parties, as opposed to the south where 16% did. No detectable regional variation existed among Jews. The lack of support for the center and right among the major minorities (Jews, Ukrainians and Belarusians) was attributed to ethnic polarisation that was exacerbated by discrimination and chauvinism from Polish officials. Despite the success of minority parties, parties describing themselves as "Polish" refused to form a government with minority parties, and there was not one non-ethnic Polish cabinet member in the interwar period, though interethnic cooperation could still be seen in Ukrainian and Belarusian support for the Sikorski government.
| Estimates of voting patterns by ethnoreligious groups | Religion | Communists | Nonrevolutionary left | Minority interest parties | Center | Right-wing | Overall share (1921 census) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic | 2% | 29% | 4% | 25% | 39% | 64% | |
| Uniate | 3% | 2% | 77% | 1% | 5% | 12% | |
| Orthodox Christian | 8% | 37% | 66% | 1% | 1% | 10% | |
| Jewish | 4% | 18% | 65% | 2% | 4% | 11% | |
| Overall share (1921 census) | 2% | 16% | 24% | 25% | 34% |
References
References
- (2018). "Polska 1918–2018".
- [[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1491 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
- [https://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/publication/54063/edition/70278/content Sejm i Senat 1922-1927 p486–487, p477]
- Kopstein, Jeffrey S.. (2003). "Who Voted Communist? Reconsidering the Social Bases of Radicalism in Interwar Poland". Slavic Review.
- Kopstein & Wittenberg, p99
- Kopstein & Wittenberg, p98
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