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Parliamentary elections were held in
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
on 30 May 1965.
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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1491
They were the fourth elections to the
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of the
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, and fifth in
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. They took place on 30 May. The lists admitted were controlled by the
Front of National Unity Front of National Unity or National Unity Front (, FJN) was a popular front supervising elections in the Polish People's Republic which also acted as a coalition for the dominant communist Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) and its allies. It w ...
(FJN), in turn controlled by the
Polish United Workers' Party The Polish United Workers' Party (, ), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other legally permitted subordinate minor parti ...
(PZPR). The distribution of seats was decided before the elections by the FJN, with voters having no possibility to change it. The results of the 1965 election would be exactly duplicated by the 1969 and 1972 elections.


Results

Of the 49 independents, five were affiliated with Znak, five with the
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and three with the . As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total.


References


Further reading

*Jerzy Drygalski, Jacek Kwasniewski, ''No-Choice Elections,''
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, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 295–315
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*George Sakwa, Martin Crouch, ''Sejm Elections in Communist Poland: An Overview and a Reappraisal'', British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Oct., 1978), pp. 403–424
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*''Informacja o dziatalnoici Sejmu PRL. (IV kadencja 1965-1969)'' (Warsaw: Sejm Chancellory Publications, 1969),
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
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