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Parliamentary elections were held in
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
on 30 May 1965. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1491 They were the fourth elections to the
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, the
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of the People's Republic of Poland, and fifth in
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. They took place on 30 May. The lists admitted were controlled by the
Front of National Unity :''This is an article about a Polish political organization. For article about a Bolivian political party, see National Unity Front.'' Front of National Unity or National Unity Front ( pl, Front Jedności Narodu, FJN) was a popular front supervis ...
(FJN), in turn controlled by the
Polish United Workers' Party The Polish United Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; ), 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 lega ...
(PZPR). The distribution of seats was decided before the elections by the FJN, and electors had no possibility to change it. The results of the 1965 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1969 and 1972 elections.


Results

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),
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