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2005 Polish presidential election

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Field	Value
country	Poland
type	presidential
previous_election	2000 Polish presidential election
previous_year	2000
next_election	2010 Polish presidential election
next_year	2010
election_date	9 October 2005 (first round)
23 October 2005 (second round)
turnout	49.72% (first round) 11.36pp
50.98% (second round)
image1
nominee1	Lech Kaczyński
party1	Law and Justice
color1	00a1b0
popular_vote1	8,257,468
percentage1	54.04%
image2
nominee2	Donald Tusk
party2	Civic Platform
popular_vote2	7,022,319
percentage2	45.96%
map_image
title	President
before_election	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
before_party	Independent politician
after_election	Lech Kaczyński
after_party	Law and Justice

23 October 2005 (second round) 50.98% (second round)

Presidential elections were held in Poland on 9 October and 23 October 2005. The outgoing President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, had served the two five-year terms allowed under the constitution and was unable to stand for a third term. Lech Kaczyński defeated Donald Tusk to become President of Poland.

The election took place just a month after Kaczyński's Law and Justice party also defeated Tusk's Civic Platform in the parliamentary elections.

Background

Two center-right candidates, Donald Tusk, chairman of the Civic Platform (PO) and Deputy Marshal of the Sejm, and Lech Kaczyński, honorary chairman of Law and Justice (PiS) and mayor of Warsaw, led the poll in the first round, as was widely expected. As neither received 50 percent of the vote, a second-round was held on 23 October. In this round, Kaczyński defeated Tusk, polling 54.04 percent of the vote.

Although both leading candidates came from the center-right, and their two parties had planned to form a coalition government following the legislative elections on 25 September, there were important differences between Tusk and Kaczyński. Tusk wanted to enforce separation of church and state, favored rapid European integration and supported a free-market economy. Kaczyński was very socially conservative, a soft Eurosceptic, and supported state interventionism. Such differences led to the failure of PiS-PO coalition talks in late October.

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, the candidate of the Alliance of the Democratic Left, which was the governing party before the legislative election withdrew from the race on September 14. At the time he withdrew he was third in the polls, still having the most chances to get to the second round (besides Kaczyński and Tusk).

Other candidates, who withdrew from the elections, but initially have signed to, were Zbigniew Religa and Maciej Giertych. Daniel Tomasz Podrzycki, who had also signed, died in an accident before the elections.

Ten people had registered themselves in election procedure, but failed to gather 100,000 support signatures: Arnold Buzdygan, Stanisław Ceberek, Gabriel Janowski, Jan Antoni Kiełb, Waldemar Janusz Kossakowski, Marian Romuald Rembelski, Zbigniew Roliński, Sławomir Salomon, Maria Szyszkowska, Bolesław Tejkowski.

The figure of Józef Tusk, grandfather of incumbent Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, was in the center of the "Wehrmacht affair" over his brief period of service after being drafted into the German army during the late stages of World War II, which was the biggest controversy of the election.

Candidates

File:Henryka Bochniarz official photo.JPG|Former Minister of Industry and Trade Henryka Bochniarz (Independent), 57 File:Marek Borowski Kancelaria Senatu 2015.jpg|Former Marshall of the Sejm Marek Borowski (SDPL), 59 File:Leszek Bubel.JPG|Former Member of the Sejm Leszek Bubel (Polish National Party), 48 File:Amerykanski adwokat USA Liviusz Ilasz.jpg|Lawyer Liwiusz Ilasz (Independent), 43 File:Lech Kaczyński.jpg|Mayor of Warsaw Lech Kaczyński (Law and Justice), 56 File:Kalinowski, Jaroslaw-2504.jpg|Former Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kalinowski (PSL), 43 File:Korwin.png|Former Member of the Sejm Janusz Korwin-Mikke (Real Politics Union), 63 File:Andrzej Lepper in March 2007.png|Former Deputy Marshal of the Sejm Andrzej Lepper (Self-Defense), 51 File:Adam Słomka Sejm 2016.jpg|Former Member of the Sejm Adam Słomka (Polish Confederation), 41 File:Donald Tusk (6165309851) (cropped).jpg|Deputy Marshal of the Sejm Donald Tusk (Civic Platform), 48 File:Stan Tyminski.jpg|Businessman Stanisław Tymiński (Independent), 57

Physician Jan Pyszko (Polish League), 75

Withdrawn

File:Zbigniew Religa Kancelaria Senatu Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej V kadencji.jpg|Senator Zbigniew Religa (Centre Party), 66 Endorsed Donald Tusk File:Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (senator).jpg|Marshal of the Sejm Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (Democratic Left Alliance), 55 File:Maciej Giertych MEP (2012).jpg|MEP Maciej Giertych (League of Polish Families, 69 Didn't endorse any candidate

Dead

Journalist Daniel Podrzycki (Polish Labour Party), 42

Opinion polls

Graphical summary

First round

Pollster	Date of polling	Kaczyński
PiS	Tusk
PO	Lepper
SRP	Borowski
SDPL	Kalinowski
PSL	Korwin-Mikke
UPR	Bochniarz
PD	Religa
Centrum	Cimoszewicz
SLD	Giertych
LPR	Others
	Civic Platform}};"		Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland}};"		Social Democracy of Poland}};"		Polish People's Party}};"		Real Politics Union}};"		Democratic Party – demokraci.pl}};"			Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)}};"	League of Polish Families}};"
Election results	9 October 2005	33.10	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	36.33	15.11	10.33	1.80	1.43	1.26	-	-	-	0.70
CBOS	1–3 October 2005	35	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	40	11	8	3	2	0	-	-	-	1
PGB	30 September 2005	31	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	35	17	11	2	1	1	-	-	2	0
CBOS	14–18 September 2005	26	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	44	15	7	3	2	1	-	-	1	1
Rzeczpospolita	17 September 2005	29	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	51	7	7	2			-	-	2	2
PBS	15 September 2005	22	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	49	9	8	3	2	2	-	-	3	2
Polityka	13 September 2005	22	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	43	10					-	17		8
Ipsos	9 August 2005	24	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	24	12	5	3	2	0	7	19	2	2
OBOP	8 August 2005	21	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	23	9	5	2			7	Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)}}; color:white;"	26	3	4
PBS	8 August 2005	20	19	14	3				9	Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)}}; color:white;"	23	4	8
CBOS	5–8 August 2005	21	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	22	13	5	2	1	1	9	Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)}}; color:white;"	21	3	2
PGB	13 July 2005	22	11	15	6	3		1	9	Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)}}; color:white;"	23	6	4
OBOP	11 July 2005	19	12	11	2.4	1.9			12	Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)}}; color:white;"	35	2.4	4.3
Gazeta Wyborcza	6 July 2005	18	12	10	5	3			14	Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)}}; color:white;"	29	3	6
CBOS	1–4 July 2005	20	9	12	5	3			13	Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)}}; color:white;"	31	3	4
CBOS	3–6 June 2005	25	11	12	14	3			23		4	8
PBS	13 May 2005	27	14		9				16	15		19
CBOS	6–9 May 2005	22	13	14	10				15	14	2	10
OBOP	5–9 May 2005	13	8	8	6				10	9	1	16
PGB	2 May 2005	23	Civic Platform}}; color:black;"	13		Social Democracy of Poland}}; color:white;"	13				10	9	10	22
Pentor	25 April 2005	21	9	13	9				22	15	2	9
PBS	22 April 2005	26	11	11	12				16	14	4	6
PGB	20 April 2005	24	13	13	Social Democracy of Poland}}; color:white;"	14				7	8	9	12
CBOS	1-2, 9–10 April 2005	21	9	13	9				22	15	2	9
CBOS	4–7 March 2005	4	2	Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland}}"	6	4				8	4	2	70

Results

Voter turnout in the first round was low with only 49.7% of all eligible voters casting their votes.

Notes

References

{{in lang. pl Barbara Szczepuła, ''[http://www.wiadomosci24.pl/artykul/dziadek_z_wehrmachtu_8211_jozef_tusk_i_inni_3469.html Józef Tusk i inni]'', Dziennik Bałtycki, 2006-08-04
(2007-10-22). "Europe | Profile: Donald Tusk". BBC News.
{{in lang. pl ''[http://www.wprost.pl/ar/93897/Raport-o-dziadku-z-Wehrmachtu/ Raport o dziadku z Wehrmachtu]'', [[Wprost]], 2006-08-17
"Religa zrezygnował, Tusk wzmocniony".
"Maciej Giertych zrezygnował".
https://web.archive.org/web/20070211071631/http://prezydent2005.pkw.gov.pl/PZT/PL/WYN/W/index.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20071229034056/http://www.wybory2005.pkw.gov.pl/PZT1/PL/WYN/W/index.htm

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