Members of Polish Sejm 1997–2001

Sejm of the Republic of Poland Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
8th term
Type
Type	Lower house of the Parliament of Poland
History
Founded	1493 (1493)
Leadership
Marshal of the Sejm	Marek Kuchciński, PiS Since 12 November 2015
Deputy Marshal of the Sejm	Beata Mazurek, PiS Barbara Dolniak, .N Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, PO Ryszard Terlecki, PiS Stanisław Tyszka, K’15 Since 12 November 2015
Structure
Political groups	Government (239)      Law and Justice (237)      Independents (2) Confidence and supply (8)      Free and Solidary (6)      Independents (2) Opposition (213)      Civic Platform (136)      Kukiz'15 (30)      .Modern (25)      Polish People's Party (15)      Union of European Democrats (3)      Independents (4)
Elections
Voting system	Open-list proportional representation in 41 constituencies (5% national election thresholda)
Last election	October 2015
Next election	Not later than November 2019
Meeting place
The Sejm Building Śródmieście, Warsaw
Website
sejm.gov.pl
Footnotes
a 8% for coalitions.

Government (239)

Confidence and supply (8)

Opposition (213)

The Sejm of the Republic of Poland ([sɛjm] ( listen); Polish: Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is the lower house of the Polish parliament. It consists of 460 deputies (posłowie, literally "envoys", in Polish) elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland" (Marszałek Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej). In the Kingdom of Poland, "Sejm" referred to the entire three-chamber parliament of Poland, comprising the lower house (the Chamber of Envoys; Polish: Izba Poselska), the upper house (the Senate; Polish: Senat) and the King. It was thus a three-estate parliament. Since the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939), "Sejm" has referred only to the lower house of the parliament; the upper house is called the Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej ("Senate of the Republic of Poland").