1969 Polish parliamentary election

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1 June 1969 (1969-06-01)

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All 460 seats in the Sejm

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Władysław Gomułka	Czesław Wycech	Stanisław Kulczyński
Party	PZPR	ZSL	SD
Last election	255 seats	117 seats	39
Seats won	255	117	39
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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 1 June 1969.^[1] The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1969 election were identical to the 1965 elections and were repeated in 1972.

Results

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Party or alliance			Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Front of National Unity	Polish United Workers' Party	20,473,114	99.22	255	0
		United People's Party			117	0
		Democratic Party			39	0
		Independents			49	0
Blank ballots			161,569	0.78	–	–
Total			20,634,683	100.00	460	0

Valid votes			20,634,683	99.96
Invalid votes			7,766	0.04
Total votes			20,642,449	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			21,148,879	97.61
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total.^[2]^[3]

References

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^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1491 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Andrzej Paczkowski; Jane Cave (2003). The spring will be ours: Poland and the Poles from occupation to freedom. Penn State Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-271-02308-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
^ Norman Davies (May 2005). God's Playground: 1795 to the present. Columbia University Press. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-231-12819-3. Retrieved 3 June 2011.

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