2007 Polish parliamentary election

2007 Polish parliamentary election

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All 460 seats in the Sejm 231 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	18,678,457 (53.82%) 13.31%
First party Second party   Leader Donald Tusk Jarosław Kaczyński Party PO PiS Last election 24.1%, 133 seats 27.0%, 155 seats Seats won 209 166 Seat change 76 11 Popular vote 6,701,010 5,183,477 Percentage 41.5% 32.1% Swing 17.4pp 5.1pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Aleksander Kwaśniewski Waldemar Pawlak Party LiD PSL Last election 17.6%, 55 seats* 7.0%, 25 seats Seats won 53 31 Seat change 2 6 Popular vote 2,122,981 1,437,638 Percentage 13.2% 8.9% Swing 4.4pp* 1.9pp
Seats won by Sejm District
Government before election Kaczyński cabinet PiS Government after election First Tusk cabinet PO—PSL

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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 21 October 2007. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The largest opposition group, Civic Platform (PO), which soundly defeated the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and its allies. Throughout the campaign, polls showed conflicting results as to which of the two parties had the greater support, yet by the closing week the polls had swung in favour of Civic Platform. Three other political groups won election into the Sejm, the centre-left Left and Democrats coalition, the agrarian Polish People's Party, and the tiny German Minority group. Both of Law and Justice's former minor coalition partners, the League of Polish Families and the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland suffered an enormous voter backlash, failing to cross the 5% electoral threshold in order to enter the Sejm. Consequently, both parties lost all of their seats.

Early elections were called after the Sejm voted for its own dissolution, due to serious allegations of massive corruption on the part of Andrzej Lepper, leader of the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland, whose party served as a junior coalition partner to the government of Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński.^[1] All 460 seats in the Sejm and all 100 seats in the Senate were up for election.

Prime Minister and PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński stepped down from office on 15 November, with Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk sworn in as Poland's Prime Minister on the following day. Civic Platform consequently formed a coalition majority government with the Polish People's Party.

The turnout for the elections was 54%, an increase of 13pp from the 2005 elections, seeing the highest voter turnout in a Polish parliamentary election since the semi-free elections of 1989.