Parliamentary elections will be 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 ...

in late 2023 to elect members of the

Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of ...

and Senate, although they can be held sooner if a snap election is called, which last occurred in 2007. The previous election, in 2019, resulted in the re-election of a majority Law and Justice government, albeit without a majority in the Senate.

Electoral system

The process of election for the Sejm is through

party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a subset of proportional representation electoral systems in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through their position on an electoral list. They can also be us ...

via the

D'hondt method The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is a method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in party-list proportional representation systems. It belongs to the class of highest ...

in multi-seat

constituencies An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...

, with a 5% threshold for single parties and 8% threshold for coalitions (with the requirements waived for national minorities). The date of the election will be set by the

President of Poland The president of Poland ( pl, Prezydent RP), officially the president of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the head of state of Poland. Their rights and obligations are determined in the Constitution of Pola ...

(consistent with constitutional requirements, whereby the election may be held 30 days before the fourth anniversary of the beginning the current convocation of Parliament, on a non-working day, including public holidays). Possible dates are 15 October, 22 October, 29 October and 5 November (and - due to public holidays - 1 November and 11 November). Should the opposition parties win government, they would require a three-fifths majority of MPs to overturn a

presidential veto A veto is a legal power to unilaterally stop an official action. In the most typical case, a president or monarch vetoes a bill to stop it from becoming law. In many countries, veto powers are established in the country's constitution. Veto po ...

Political parties

The table below lists party groups represented in the

as a result of the 2019 election. {, class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" ! colspan="3" rowspan="2" , Name ! rowspan="2", Ideology ! rowspan="2", Political Position ! rowspan="2", Leader(s) ! rowspan="2", Parliamentary
leader(s) ! colspan="2", 2019 result ! colspan="2", Current number of seats in , - ! Votes (%) ! Seats ! Sejm (list) ! Senate (list) , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:center;" , ZP , United Right

, National conservatism , Right-wing ,

Jarosław Kaczyński Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński (; born 18 June 1949) is a Polish politician who is currently serving as leader of the Law and Justice party (known by its Polish acronym PiS), which he co-founded in 2001 with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, ...

, Ryszard Terlecki , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;", 43.6% , rowspan="2" , , , , - , style="background:#5234A5;" , , style="text-align:center;" , P ,

Agreement Agreement may refer to: Agreements between people and organizations * Gentlemen's agreement, not enforceable by law * Trade agreement, between countries * Consensus, a decision-making process * Contract, enforceable in a court of law ** Meeting o ...

Conservatism Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilizati ...

, {{Nowrap,

Centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...

to right-wing ,

Magdalena Sroka Magdalena Joanna Sroka (née Wolter; born 15 July 1979) is a Polish police officer and politician, serving as a member of the Sejm. She is the spokesperson for the Agreement political party. Life and career Magdalena Joanna Sroka graduated fro ...

, Iwona Michałek , {{Composition bar, 5, 460, #5234A5 , {{Composition bar, 1, 100, #5234A5 , - , style="background:{{party color, Civic Platform;" , , style="text-align:center;" , KO , Civic Coalition
{{small, ''Koalicja Obywatelska''
{{Collapsible list , title = List , bullets = on ,

Civic Platform Civic Platform ( pl, Platforma Obywatelska, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a political party in Poland. It is currently led by Donald Tusk. It ...

(PO) ,

Modern Modern may refer to: History * Modern history ** Early Modern period ** Late Modern period *** 18th century *** 19th century *** 20th century ** Contemporary history * Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century Phil ...

(.N) ,

Polish Initiative The Polish Initiative ( Polish: Inicjatywa Polska, iPL) is a progressive political party in Poland. It was formed as an association in 2016, and it was registered as a political party in 2019. Its leader is Barbara Nowacka, and it is a part ...

(iPL) ,

The Greens The Greens or Greens may refer to: Current political parties *Australian Greens, also known as ''The Greens'' *Greens of Andorra * Greens of Bosnia and Herzegovina *Greens of Burkina * Greens (Greece) * Greens of Montenegro *Greens of Serbia *Gree ...

(Z) , Yes for Poland (Tak!) ,

Liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

Centre Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics * Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentri ...

Donald Tusk Donald Franciszek Tusk ( , ; born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician who was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. He served as the 14th Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 and was a co-founder and leader of the Civic ...

, Borys Budka , style="text-align:center;" , 27.4% , {{Composition bar, 134, 460, {{party color, Civic Platform , {{Composition bar, 126, 460, {{party color, Civic Platform , {{Composition bar, 41, 100, {{party color, Civic Platform , - , style="background:{{party color, The Left (Poland);" , , style="text-align:center;" , L , The Left
{{small, ''Lewica''
{{Collapsible list , title = List , bullets = on , New Left (NL) ,

Left Together Left Together () is a left-wing political party in Poland. It was formed in 2015 as "Together", and it was one of the eight nationwide committees standing in the 2015 parliamentary election. It was a member of the Progressive International, an ...

(LR) ,

Polish Socialist Party The Polish Socialist Party ( pl, Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS) is a socialist political party in Poland. It was one of the most important parties in Poland from its inception in 1892 until its merger with the communist Polish Workers' ...

(PPS) ,

Labour Union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (su ...

(UP) ,

Social democracy Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote s ...

Progressivism Progressivism holds that it is possible to improve human societies through political action. As a political movement, progressivism seeks to advance the human condition through social reform based on purported advancements in science, tec ...

Centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ...

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

Włodzimierz Czarzasty Włodzimierz Czarzasty (born 3 May 1960) is a Polish politician who serves as the co-chairperson of the New Left party (). Biography Born in Warsaw, Poland, Czarzasty graduated with degrees in journalism and political science from the Universit ...

Robert Biedroń , Krzysztof Gawkowski , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , 12.6% , rowspan="2" , {{Composition bar, 49, 460, {{party color, The Left (Poland) , {{Composition bar, 44, 460, {{party color, The Left (Poland) , {{Composition bar, 1, 100, {{party color, The Left (Poland) , - , style="background:{{party color, Democratic Left Association;" , , style="text-align:center;" , LD , {{nowrap, Democratic Left
{{small, ''Lewica Demokratyczna''
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Polish Left The Polish Left ( pl, Polska Lewica) is a centre-left to left-wing political party in Poland. History Former Prime Minister Leszek Miller announced the formation of the Polish Left on September 20, 2007, because he was not on the list of Left an ...

(PL) ,

Freedom and Equality The Freedom and Equality ( pl, Wolność i Równość, WiR), previously called Union of the Left ( pl, Unia Lewicy, UL); is a minor social-democratic political party in Poland founded on 20 March 2005 through the union of several left-wing org ...

(WiR) ,

Social Democracy of Poland The Social Democracy of Poland ( pl, Socjaldemokracja Polska, SDPL) is a social-democratic political party in Poland. Foundation The party was founded in April 2004 as a splinter group from the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD). Th ...

(SDPL) ,

(PPS) (faction) ,

Joanna Senyszyn Joanna Senyszyn (; born 1 February 1949) is a Polish politician and professor of Economics. Senyszyn is member of the left-wing party Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), in which she was vice-president (2005–2008). From 2001 to 2009 she was a mem ...

, {{Composition bar, 3, 460, {{party color, Democratic Left Association , {{Composition bar, 1, 100, {{party color, Democratic Left Association , - , style="background:{{party color, Polish People's Party;" , , style="text-align:center;" , KP ,

Polish Coalition The Polish Coalition ( pl, Koalicja Polska, KP) is a political alliance in Poland. It is led by the Polish People's Party. It was formed in 2019. In the 2019 parliamentary election, the Polish Coalition placed fourth, winning 30 seats in tot ...

{{small, ''Koalicja Polska''
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Polish People's Party The Polish People's Party ( pl, Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, PSL) is an agrarian political party in Poland. It is currently led by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Its history traces back to 1895, when it held the name People's Party, although i ...

(PSL) , Union of European Democrats (UED) , Centre for Poland (CdP) , Silesians Together (SR) , Centrism
Christian democracy ,

centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...

Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz Władysław Marcin Kosiniak-Kamysz (born 10 August 1981) is a Polish physician and politician. Since 2015, he has served as the chairman of the Polish People's Party (PSL). From 2011 to 2015, he was Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the go ...

, rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , 8.6% , rowspan="2" , {{Composition bar, 30, 460, {{party color, Polish People's Party , {{Composition bar, 24, 460, {{party color, Polish People's Party , {{Composition bar, 4, 100, {{party color, Polish People's Party , - , style="background:{{party color, Kukiz'15;" , , style="text-align:center;" , K'15 ,

Kukiz'15 Kukiz'15 is a right-wing populist political party in Poland led by Paweł Kukiz. It was formed in 2015 as a loose movement that registered itself as an association in 2016 and later as a political party in 2020. Initially, it was connected wit ...

{{small, ''Kukiz'15'' , Right-wing populism ,

to right-wing ,

Paweł Kukiz Paweł Piotr Kukiz (born 24 June 1963) is a Polish politician, singer and actor. He is the leader of Kukiz'15, a non-partisan political alliance campaigning for single-member districts, and was a candidate in the 2015 presidential election, in whi ...

, {{Composition bar, 4, 460, {{party color, Kukiz'15 , {{Composition bar, 0, 100, {{party color, Kukiz'15 , - , style="background:{{party color, Confederation Liberty and Independence;" , , style="text-align:center;" , KON ,

Confederation Liberty and Independence The Confederation Liberty and Independence ( pl, Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość), frequently shortened to just Confederation ( pl, Konfederacja), is a far-right political party in Poland. It was initially founded in 2018 as a polit ...

{{small, ''Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość''
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National Movement Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...

(RN), , New Hope (NN),

Confederation of the Polish Crown The Confederation of the Polish Crown ( pl, Konfederacja Korony Polskiej, KKP), often shorted to The Crown ( pl, Korona, links=no, label=none), is a far-right political party in Poland. It is led by Grzegorz Braun. It has been described as nati ...

(KKP),

Party of Drivers Party of Drivers ( pl, Partia Kierowców) is a minor single-issue Single-issue politics involves political campaigning or political support based on one essential policy area or idea. Political expression One weakness of such an approach is ...

(PK),

Union of Christian Families Union of Christian Families ( pl, Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańskich Rodzin; ZchR) is minor Polish far-right nationalist and Catholic social conservative political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to c ...

(UCR),

National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team ...

(LN) ,

Libertarian conservatism Libertarian conservatism, also referred to as conservative libertarianism and conservatarianism, is a political and social philosophy that combines conservatism and libertarianism, representing the libertarian wing of conservatism and vice ve ...

Polish nationalism Polish nationalism is a form of nationalism which asserts that the Poles are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Poles. Norman Davies, in the context of Polish nationalism, generally defined nationalism as "a doctrine ... to create a n ...

, Right-wing to far-right , Sławomir Mentzen

Krzysztof Bosak Krzysztof Bosak (, born 13 June 1982) is a far-right Polish politician. He was a member of the Sejm for the League of Polish Families from 2005 to 2007 and has been a member of the Sejm again since 2019 for the Confederation. Bosak was the chairm ...

, rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , 6.8% , rowspan="2" , {{Composition bar, 11, 460, {{party color, Confederation Liberty and Independence , {{Composition bar, 9, 460, {{party color, Confederation Liberty and Independence , {{Composition bar, 0, 100, {{party color, Confederation Liberty and Independence , - , style="background:#35134F;" , , style="text-align:center;" , W ,

Freedomites The Freedomite movement consists of a split-off of the Doukhobors, a community of Spiritual Christians began a mass migration from Russia to Canada in 1898. The Freedomite movement first appeared in 1902 in Saskatchewan, and later in the Kootenay ...

{{small, ''Wolnościowcy''
,

Right-Libertarianism Right-libertarianism,Rothbard, Murray (1 March 1971)"The Left and Right Within Libertarianism" ''WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Nonviolent Action''. 7 (4): 6–10. Retrieved 14 January 2020.Goodway, David (2006). '' Anarchist Seeds Beneath the ...

Direct democracy , Right-wing ,

Artur Dziambor Artur Erwin Dziambor (born 27 January 1982 in Gdynia) is a Polish politician and teacher. He has been a vice-chairman of KORWiN and a deputy in the Sejm since 2019. In 2019, he was elected to Sejm, starting from the Confederation Freedom and Inde ...

Jakub Kulesza Jakub Kulesza (born 12 November 1990) is a Polish politician and a Member of Parliament. Kulesza studied electronics, computer science and telecommunications at the Warsaw University of Technology. He was employed in enterprise computing. Kule ...

, {{Composition bar, 3, 460, #35134F , {{Composition bar, 0, 100, #35134F , - , style="background:#fbc314;" , , style="text-align:center;" , PL2050 ,

Poland 2050 Szymon Hołownia's Poland 2050 ( pl, Polska 2050 Szymona Hołowni, PL2050) is a centrist political party in Poland. It was founded as a social movement in 2020, shortly after the presidential election. It was officially registered as a politic ...

{{small, ''Polska 2050'' , Centrism

Environmentalism Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks ...

, Szymon Hołownia ,

Paulina Hennig-Kloska Paulina Hennig-Kloska (born 5 October 1977) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the low ...

, style="text-align:center;" , ''N/A'' , {{Composition bar, 0, 460, #fbc314 , {{Composition bar, 8, 460, #fbc314 , {{Composition bar, 1, 100, #fbc314 , - , style="background:{{party color, German Minority Electoral Committee;" , , style="text-align:center;" , MN ,

German Minority Electoral Committee The German Minority Electoral Committee ( pl, Komitet Wyborczy Mniejszość Niemiecka, german: Wahlkomitee der Deutschen Minderheit) is an electoral committee in Poland, that represents the German minority. Since 2008, its representative has ...

{{small, ''Mniejszość Niemiecka'' , Minority interests ,

Ryszard Galla Ryszard Jerzy Galla (born 22 July 1956 in Wrocław) is a Polish politician of German heritage. Originally a member of the Opole Regional Assembly and briefly the Marshal of Opole Voivodeship in 2002, Galla was elected to the Sejm during the 200 ...

, ''N/A'' , style="text-align:center;" , 0.2% , {{Composition bar, 1, 460, #102A52 , {{Composition bar, 1, 460, #102A52 , {{Composition bar, 0, 100, #102A52 Other parties seeking to take part: {, class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" ! colspan="3", Name ! Ideology ! Leader(s) ! Political Position , - , style="background:{{party color, AGROunia" , , style="text-align:center;" , AU ,

AGROunia The AGROunion ( pl, AGROunia, AU) is a conservative agrarianisthttps://europeelects.eu/poland/ Orientation: Conservative, Farmers’ interest (self-declared) political movement in Poland formed by Michał Kołodziejczak AGROunia criticizes the ...

, Agrarianism

Protectionism Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulatio ...

Michał Kołodziejczak Michał () is a Polish and Sorbian form of Michael and may refer to: * Michał Bajor (born 1957), Polish actor and musician * Michał Chylinski (born 1986), Polish basketball player * Michał Drzymała (1857–1937), Polish rebel * Michał Heller ...

Syncretic Syncretism () is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thu ...

, - , style="background:#ED1C24;" , , style="text-align:center;" , MD23 ,

I've Had Enough 2023 The I've Had Enough 2023 ( pl, Mam Dość 2023), or simply I've Had Enough (; ), is a political party in Poland founded by the wife of the PiS minister Łukasz Schreiber, Marianna Schreiber, on 11 May 2022 ahead of the 2023 parliamentary electi ...

{{cite news, url=https://plejada.pl/newsy/marianna-schreiber-zaklada-partie-polityczna-co-na-to-maz/7n6tl9q, date=5 April 2022, language=pl, author=Katarzyna Albrycht, website=onet.pl, title=Marianna Schreiber zakłada partię polityczną. "Co na to mąż?", access-date=20 April 2022
{{small, ''Mam Dość 2023'' ,

Social liberalism Social liberalism (german: Sozialliberalismus, es, socioliberalismo, nl, Sociaalliberalisme), also known as new liberalism in the United Kingdom, modern liberalism, or simply liberalism in the contemporary United States, left-liberalism ...

, Marianna Schreiber ,

, - , style="background:{{party color, Nonpartisan Local Government Activists" , , style="text-align:center;" , BS , Nonpartisan Local Government Activists
{{small, ''Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy'' , Regionalism , Robert Raczyński ,

, - , style="background:{{party color, Yes! For Poland" , , style="text-align:center;" , T!DPL , Yes! For Poland
{{small, ''Tak! Dla Polski'' , Regionalism , Jacek Karnowski ,

Opinion polls

{{main, Opinion polling for the 2023 Polish parliamentary election Polish Opinion Polling for the 2023 Election

References

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Notes

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