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The 2018 Polish local elections were held on October 21 for all 16 regional assemblies (sejmik wojewódzki), 380 county (powiat) councils, and 2477 municipal (gmina) councils. There were also direct elections for heads (wójt) of municipalities and mayors, with a second, run-off round for these offices on November 4.
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552 seats to voivodeship sejmiks, 6,170 seats to powiat councils, 39,524 seats to gmina councils, 420 seats to Warsaw district councils, and 2,475 wójts/mayors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Result of the voivodeship sejmik elections |
The local elections were a victory of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS), though the opposition Civic Coalition (PO) maintained control of the majority of cities, including the capital Warsaw.
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Law and Justice | 5,267,667 | 34.13 | 254 | +83 | |
Platform.Modern Civic Coalition | 4,162,720 | 26.97 | 194 | +15 | |
Polish People's Party | 1,863,225 | 12.07 | 70 | −87 | |
SLD Left Together | 1,021,016 | 6.62 | 11 | −17 | |
Kukiz'15 | 868,332 | 5.63 | 0 | New | |
Nonpartisan Local Government Activists | 814,651 | 5.28 | 15 | +11 | |
Liberty in Local Governments | 245,317 | 1.59 | 0 | New | |
Together | 242,511 | 1.57 | 0 | New | |
National Movement | 194,782 | 1.26 | 0 | 0 | |
The Greens | 177,828 | 1.15 | 0 | New | |
Free and Solidary | 119,952 | 0.78 | 0 | New | |
With Dutkiewicz for Lower Silesia | 93,260 | 0.60 | 2 | New | |
Common Lesser Poland | 61,511 | 0.40 | 0 | New | |
Silesian Regional Party | 58,126 | 0.38 | 0 | New | |
Silesians Together | 56,388 | 0.37 | 0 | New | |
German Minority | 52,431 | 0.34 | 5 | −2 | |
Świętokrzyskie Project of Bogdan Wenta | 28,314 | 0.18 | 1 | New | |
Unity of the Nation – Commonwealth | 27,415 | 0.18 | 0 | New | |
Union of Christian Families | 21,595 | 0.14 | 0 | New | |
Civic Initiative of Tarnogórski Powiat | 13,606 | 0.09 | 0 | New | |
Polish Families Together | 13,172 | 0.09 | 0 | New | |
Outside of the Clique | 8,626 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
Spark | 8,101 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
National Action | 5,654 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
Slavic Union | 3,286 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
Lex Naturalis | 2,120 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Committee of Agnieszka Jędrzejewska | 1,169 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Labour Party | 761 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
Total | 15,433,536 | 100.00 | 552 | −3 | |
Valid votes | 15,433,536 | 93.28 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,111,954 | 6.72 | |||
Total votes | 16,545,490 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 30,170,012 | 54.84 | |||
Source: National Electoral Commission |
Voivodeship
Council |
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PiS | KO | PSL | SLD | K'15 | BS | WwS | Together | RN | The Greens | WiS | Others with seats | Others | |
Lower Silesia[1] | 28.53 | 25.77 | 5.23 | 5.50 | 4.78 | 14.98 | 1.38 | 1.61 | 1.32 | 1.76 | 0.86 | 8.29[lower-alpha 1] | — |
Kuyavia-Pomerania[2] | 28.27 | 34.66 | 14.31 | 9.00 | 5.70 | 0.64 | 1.98 | 1.77 | 0.54 | 1.19 | 1.52 | — | 0.42[lower-alpha 2] |
Lublin[3] | 44.04 | 18.19 | 19.30 | 5.89 | 6.64 | 0.42 | 1.62 | 0.93 | 1.32 | 0.14 | 0.77 | — | 0.74[lower-alpha 3] |
Lubusz[4] | 25.11 | 29.92 | 12.43 | 9.59 | 3.22 | 13.17 | 0.55 | 1.72 | 1.67 | 2.62 | — | — | — |
Łódź[5] | 34.88 | 28.39 | 13.06 | 6.32 | 5.86 | 3.90 | 1.38 | 1.72 | 1.17 | 1.34 | 1.03 | — | 0.96[lower-alpha 4] |
Lesser Poland[6] | 43.55 | 22.66 | 10.03 | 2.87 | 5.76 | 3.89 | 1.80 | 1.44 | 0.86 | 1.02 | 0.91 | — | 5.23[lower-alpha 5] |
Masovia[7] | 34.04 | 27.66 | 13.15 | 5.46 | 5.44 | 6.24 | 1.51 | 1.70 | 1.24 | 1.38 | 0.75 | — | 1.41[lower-alpha 6] |
Opole[8] | 25.77 | 29.45 | 10.72 | 5.94 | 6.06 | 0.78 | 1.54 | 1.51 | 0.95 | 0.45 | 1.07 | 14.64[lower-alpha 7] | 1.13[lower-alpha 8] |
Subcarpathian[9] | 52.25 | 13.44 | 11.88 | 5.85 | 6.62 | 3.39 | 1.77 | 1.08 | 1.92 | 0.63 | 1.16 | — | — |
Podlaskie[10] | 41.64 | 24.14 | 15.66 | 4.78 | 5.90 | 1.20 | 1.04 | 1.24 | 1.36 | 0.44 | 0.77 | — | 1.84[lower-alpha 9] |
Pomerania[11] | 27.84 | 40.70 | 8.33 | 6.59 | 5.24 | 3.03 | 2.83 | 2.21 | 1.64 | 1.59 | — | — | — |
Silesia[12] | 32.11 | 28.83 | 5.15 | 8.31 | 6.58 | 4.96 | 1.43 | 1.46 | 1.16 | 1.39 | 0.68 | — | 7.94[lower-alpha 10] |
Świętokrzyskie[13] | 38.40 | 11.79 | 25.52 | 6.16 | 4.90 | 2.78 | 1.84 | 0.77 | 1.16 | 0.43 | 0.76 | 5.26[lower-alpha 11] | 0.22[lower-alpha 12] |
Warmia-Masuria[14] | 28.15 | 30.40 | 19.64 | 8.16 | 6.29 | 0.79 | 0.48 | 2.31 | 2.65 | 0.45 | — | — | 0.70[lower-alpha 13] |
Greater Poland[15] | 27.84 | 29.66 | 14.52 | 9.31 | 5.23 | 6.08 | 1.53 | 1.78 | 1.26 | 1.56 | 1.23 | — | — |
West Pomerania[16] | 26.80 | 32.04 | 9.68 | 9.08 | 4.21 | 13.70 | 1.94 | 1.53 | 0.73 | 0.30 | — | — | — |
Poland[17] | 34.13 | 26.97 | 12.07 | 6.62 | 5.63 | 5.28 | 1.59 | 1.57 | 1.26 | 1.15 | 0.78 | 1.13 | 1.81 |
Voivodeship Council | |||||||||
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PiS | KO | PSL | BS | SLD | MN | ZDdDŚ | PŚBW | Total | |
Lower Silesia | 14 | 13 | 1 | 6 | — | — | 2 | — | 36 |
Kuyavia-Pomerania | 11 | 14 | 4 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 30 |
Lublin | 18 | 7 | 7 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 33 |
Lubusz | 9 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | 30 |
Łódź | 17 | 12 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 33 |
Lesser Poland | 24 | 11 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 39 |
Masovia | 24 | 18 | 8 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 51 |
Opole | 10 | 13 | 2 | — | — | 5 | — | — | 30 |
Subcarpathian | 25 | 5 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | 33 |
Podlaskie | 16 | 9 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 30 |
Pomerania | 13 | 18 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 33 |
Silesia | 22 | 20 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | — | 45 |
Świętokrzyskie | 16 | 3 | 9 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 30 |
Warmia-Masuria | 11 | 12 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | 30 |
Greater Poland | 13 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | 39 |
West Pomerania | 11 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | 30 |
Poland | 254 | 194 | 70 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 552 |
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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Law and Justice | 3,224,062 | 30.46 | 2,114 | |
Polish People's Party | 1,505,277 | 14.22 | 952 | |
Platform.Modern Civic Coalition | 1,300,898 | 12.29 | 726 | |
SLD Left Together | 292,761 | 2.77 | 105 | |
Kukiz'15 | 149,893 | 1.42 | 19 | |
Nonpartisan Local Government Activists | 90,885 | 0.86 | 36 | |
German Minority | 48,911 | 0.46 | 45 | |
Common Lesser Poland | 43,514 | 0.41 | 15 | |
Jarosław Gowin's Agreement | 22,853 | 0.22 | 3 | |
Civic Initiative of Tarnogórski Powiat | 15,248 | 0.14 | 9 | |
Świętokrzyskie Project of Bogdan Wenta | 15,022 | 0.14 | 5 | |
First Self-Governance League | 10,239 | 0.10 | 5 | |
Free and Solidary | 5,735 | 0.05 | 0 | |
Silesian Regional Party | 5,361 | 0.05 | 3 | |
National Movement | 304 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Self-Defence | 300 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Other and local committees | 3,852,976 | 36.40 | 2,207 | |
Total | 10,584,239 | 100.00 | 6,244 | |
Valid votes | 10,584,239 | 94.64 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 599,913 | 5.36 | ||
Total votes | 11,184,152 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 20,471,882 | 54.63 | ||
Source: National Electoral Commission |
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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Law and Justice | 3,291,172 | 21.08 | 5,808 | |
Platform.Modern Civic Coalition | 1,768,898 | 11.33 | 1,098 | |
Polish People's Party | 682,768 | 4.37 | 3,200 | |
SLD Left Together | 382,805 | 2.45 | 307 | |
Kukiz'15 | 241,677 | 1.55 | 93 | |
Nonpartisan Local Government Activists | 79,773 | 0.51 | 53 | |
German Minority | 25,821 | 0.17 | 207 | |
Świętokrzyskie Project of Bogdan Wenta | 18,910 | 0.12 | 14 | |
Silesian Regional Party | 18,233 | 0.12 | 11 | |
Liberty in Local Governments | 17,207 | 0.11 | 3 | |
Civic Initiative of Tarnogórski Powiat | 10,370 | 0.07 | 12 | |
Free and Solidary | 8,773 | 0.06 | 13 | |
Jarosław Gowin's Agreement | 7,027 | 0.04 | 13 | |
The Greens | 6,930 | 0.04 | 0 | |
Outside of the Clique | 4,533 | 0.03 | 6 | |
First Self-Governance League | 3,131 | 0.02 | 3 | |
National Movement | 2,335 | 0.01 | 1 | |
National Action | 1,799 | 0.01 | 0 | |
Right Wing of the Republic | 1,799 | 0.01 | 9 | |
Unity of the Nation – Commonwealth | 1,797 | 0.01 | 2 | |
Common Lesser Poland | 1,601 | 0.01 | 3 | |
Self-Defence | 1,184 | 0.01 | 3 | |
People's Party "Patrimony" RP | 1,011 | 0.01 | 4 | |
Congress of the New Right | 379 | 0.00 | 1 | |
Labour Party | 345 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Democracy and Justice | 316 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Silesians Together | 203 | 0.00 | 2 | |
Union of Christian Families | 148 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Union of European Democrats | 20 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Patriotic Poland | 8 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Other and local committees | 9,035,011 | 57.86 | 28,658 | |
Total | 15,615,984 | 100.00 | 39,524 | |
Valid votes | 15,615,984 | 97.36 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 423,946 | 2.64 | ||
Total votes | 16,039,930 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 29,095,469 | 55.13 | ||
Source: National Electoral Commission |
Party or alliance | First round | Second round | Total seats | |||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
Law and Justice | Law and Justice | 1,932,363 | 11.95 | 109 | 630,979 | 13.67 | 39 | 148 | ||
Solidary Poland | 272,370 | 1.68 | 0 | 7,821 | 0.17 | 2 | 2 | |||
Agreement | 59,521 | 0.37 | 0 | 13,048 | 0.28 | 1 | 1 | |||
Free and Solidary | 7,292 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Right Wing of the Republic | 4,232 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Independents | 792,663 | 4.90 | 61 | 277,081 | 6.00 | 22 | 83 | |||
Total | 3,068,441 | 18.98 | 170 | 928,929 | 20.13 | 64 | 234 | |||
Platform.Modern Civic Coalition | Civic Platform | 1,405,310 | 8.69 | 11 | 269,020 | 5.83 | 14 | 25 | ||
Modern | 7,555 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Polish People's Party | 695 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Independents | 304,596 | 1.88 | 6 | 58,034 | 1.26 | 2 | 8 | |||
Total | 1,718,156 | 10.63 | 17 | 327,054 | 7.09 | 16 | 33 | |||
Polish People's Party | Polish People's Party | 424,568 | 2.63 | 119 | 89,855 | 1.95 | 26 | 145 | ||
Worthy Life | 525 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Independents | 126,793 | 0.78 | 20 | 34,947 | 0.76 | 8 | 28 | |||
Total | 551,886 | 3.41 | 139 | 124,802 | 2.70 | 34 | 173 | |||
SLD Left Together | Democratic Left Alliance | 191,413 | 1.18 | 2 | 38,315 | 0.83 | 3 | 5 | ||
Labour Union | 1,560 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Independents | 22,668 | 0.14 | 0 | 4,822 | 0.10 | 1 | 1 | |||
Total | 215,641 | 1.33 | 2 | 43,137 | 0.93 | 4 | 6 | |||
Kukiz'15 | Congress of the New Right | 6,250 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Direct Democracy | 5,209 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Real Politics Union | 1,272 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
KORWiN | 912 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Law and Justice | 328 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Self-Defence | 259 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Independents | 138,594 | 0.86 | 2 | 22,632 | 0.49 | 2 | 4 | |||
Total | 152,824 | 0.95 | 2 | 22,632 | 0.49 | 2 | 4 | |||
Świętokrzyskie Project of Bogdan Wenta | Independents | 33,242 | 0.21 | 0 | 49,178 | 1.07 | 1 | 1 | ||
German Minority | Regional. Minority with Majority | 4,016 | 0.02 | 2 | 948 | 0.02 | 0 | 2 | ||
Independents | 28,092 | 0.17 | 7 | 5,516 | 0.12 | 4 | 11 | |||
Total | 32,108 | 0.20 | 9 | 6,464 | 0.14 | 4 | 13 | |||
Liberty in Local Governments | KORWiN | 11,516 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Independents | 16,694 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Total | 28,210 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Nonpartisan Local Government Activists | Independents | 26,850 | 0.17 | 1 | 8,305 | 0.18 | 2 | 3 | ||
Silesian Regional Party | Silesian Regional Party | 8,962 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Independents | 6,984 | 0.04 | 0 | 2,116 | 0.05 | 1 | 1 | |||
Total | 15,946 | 0.10 | 0 | 2,116 | 0.05 | 1 | 1 | |||
Civic Initiative of Tarnogórski Powiat | Independents | 15,670 | 0.10 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Free and Solidary | Free and Solidary | 1,321 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Law and Justice | 223 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Independents | 6,126 | 0.04 | 0 | 1,317 | 0.03 | 1 | 1 | |||
Total | 7,670 | 0.05 | 0 | 1,317 | 0.03 | 1 | 1 | |||
Jarosław Gowin's Agreement | Agreement | 2,712 | 0.02 | 0 | 1,498 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | ||
Law and Justice | 930 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Independents | 3,085 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Total | 6,727 | 0.04 | 0 | 1,498 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |||
The Greens | The Greens | 3,487 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Outside of the Clique | Independents | 2,842 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Unity of the Nation – Commonwealth | Independents | 2,737 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |||||
National Movement | National Movement | 1,763 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Right Wing of the Republic | Right Wing of the Republic | 140 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Independents | 899 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Total | 1,039 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Congress of the New Right | Congress of the New Right | 986 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |||||
National Action | Independents | 713 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Labour Party | Independents | 628 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Common Lesser Poland | Independents | 527 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Self-Defence | Self-Defence | 371 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Democracy and Justice | Independents | 348 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |||||
People's Party "Patrimony" RP | Independents | 118 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Other and local committees | Civic Platform[lower-alpha 14] | 934,974 | 5.78 | 82 | 159,424 | 3.45 | 23 | 105 | ||
Polish People's Party[lower-alpha 15] | 462,748 | 2.86 | 108 | 141,179 | 3.06 | 33 | 141 | |||
Law and Justice[lower-alpha 16] | 354,416 | 2.19 | 60 | 108,701 | 2.36 | 22 | 82 | |||
Democratic Left Alliance | 239,682 | 1.48 | 24 | 71,610 | 1.55 | 9 | 33 | |||
Agreement[lower-alpha 17] | 55,829 | 0.35 | 8 | 10,948 | 0.24 | 2 | 10 | |||
Modern | 37,916 | 0.23 | 2 | 9,002 | 0.20 | 1 | 3 | |||
KORWiN | 26,594 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Solidary Poland[lower-alpha 18] | 16,015 | 0.10 | 1 | 11,890 | 0.26 | 4 | 5 | |||
Right Wing of the Republic | 13,528 | 0.08 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Labour Union | 9,405 | 0.06 | 1 | 2,085 | 0.05 | 1 | 2 | |||
Together | 8,475 | 0.05 | 0 | 2,072 | 0.04 | 1 | 1 | |||
Social Justice Movement | 7,271 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Regional. Minority with Majority | 6,644 | 0.04 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Feminist Initiative | 4,913 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Free and Solidary[lower-alpha 19] | 4,563 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Direct Democracy | 3,745 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Piast Faction | 2,235 | 0.01 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Second Polish Republic | 2,117 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
National Movement | 1,643 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Silesians Together | 1,034 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Alliance of Democrats | 687 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Labour Party | 628 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Self-Defence | 63 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Independents | 8,083,790 | 50.00 | 1,195 | 2,583,095 | 55.97 | 424 | 1,619 | |||
Total | 10,278,914 | 63.58 | 1485 | 3,100,006 | 67.17 | 520 | 2005 | |||
Total | 16,167,845 | 100.00 | 1,826 | 4,615,438 | 100.00 | 649 | 2,475 | |||
Valid votes | 16,167,844 | 98.84 | 4,615,438 | 99.28 | ||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 189,470 | 1.16 | 33,706 | 0.72 | ||||||
Total votes | 16,357,314 | 100.00 | 4,649,144 | 100.00 | ||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 30,115,896 | 54.31 | 9,523,401 | 48.82 | ||||||
Source: National Electoral Commission |
Party or alliance | Seats | |||
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United Right | Law and Justice | 197 | ||
Agreement | 11 | |||
Solidary Poland | 7 | |||
Right Wing of the Republic | 2 | |||
Piast Faction | 1 | |||
Independents | 116 | |||
Total | 334 | |||
Polish People's Party | Polish People's Party | 286 | ||
Independents | 28 | |||
Total | 314 | |||
Platform.Modern Civic Coalition | Civic Platform | 128 | ||
Modern | 3 | |||
Independents | 10 | |||
Total | 141 | |||
SLD Left Together | Democratic Left Alliance | 38 | ||
Labour Union | 2 | |||
Independents | 1 | |||
Total | 41 | |||
German Minority | Regional. Minority with Majority | 3 | ||
Independents | 11 | |||
Total | 14 | |||
Kukiz'15 | Independents | 4 | ||
Nonpartisan Local Government Activists | Independents | 3 | ||
Świętokrzyskie Project of Bogdan Wenta | Independents | 1 | ||
Silesian Regional Party | Independents | 1 | ||
Civic Initiative of Tarnogórski Powiat | Independents | 1 | ||
Free and Solidary | Independents | 1 | ||
Other and local committees | Together | 1 | ||
Independents | 1,619 | |||
Total | 1620 | |||
Total | 2,475 | |||
Source: National Electoral Commission |