Next Polish parliamentary election

← 2015

Not later than November 2019

All 460 seats to the Sejm
231 seats are needed for a majority in the Sejm
All 100 seats to the Senate of Poland


Leader	Beata Szydło (PM candidate)	Grzegorz Schetyna	Paweł Kukiz
Party	PiS	PO	Kukiz'15
Leader since	20 June 2015	26 January 2016	28 July 2015
Leader's seat	12 – Chrzanów	33 – Kielce	19 – Warsaw I
Last election	235 seats, 37.58%	138 seats, 24.09%	42 seats, 8.81%
Current seats	234	136	32
Seats needed		95	199


Leader	Ryszard Petru	Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz	Ryszard Galla
Party	.N	PSL	MN
Leader since	31 May 2015	7 November 2015	25 September 2005
Leader's seat	19 – Warsaw I	15 - Tarnów	21 - Opole
Last election	28 seats, 7.60%	16 seats, 5.13%	1 seats, 0.18%
Current seats	27	15	1
Seats needed	204	216	230

Incumbent Prime Minister

Beata Szydło
PiS

The next Polish parliamentary elections must be held not later than November 2019. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators will be elected.

Following the 2015 parliamentary elections the Law and Justice (PiS) party was able form a majority government, after receiving 235 seats to the 138 won by their main competitor, Civic Platform, the first time in the post-communist era that a party had won an outright majority in parliamentary elections.Beata Szydło became Prime Minister on 16 November 2015 in a cabinet also including Solidary Poland and Poland Together, which ran on joint lists with Law & Justice.

On 23 December 2015 the Sejm passed a law, which reorganized the Constitutional Court, introducing a requirement for a two-thirds majority and the mandatory participation of at least 13, instead of 9 of the 15 judges. Article 190 (5) of the Polish Constitution requires only the majority of votes also in early 2016 PiS' government passed a law starting the process of giving the government full control of state radio and television. After that, the Committee for the Defence of Democracy, with help from the Modern party, started mass demonstrations across the country.

The 460 members of the Sejm are elected by open party-list proportional representation in multi-member constituencies. Seats are allocated using the D'hondt method, with a 5% threshold for single parties and 8% threshold for coalitions (although requirements waived for national minorities). The Senate is elected using first-past-the-post voting in single-member districts. Candidates for Deputies are nominated either by the electoral committees of the various political parties and or by individual voter committees.

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