Elections to the European Parliament Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's. Until 2019, 751 ...

were held in

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on 13 June 2004 as part of the wider

2004 European Parliament election The 2004 European Parliament election was held between 10 and 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom. The European Parliamental parties could not be voted for, but elect ...

. They were the first European Parliament elections held in Poland after the country's accession to the European Union in May 2004. Poland was allotted 54 members of the European Parliament. 20.87% of eligible citizens voted; of these, 97.33% of the votes cast were valid. The elections resulted in a heavy defeat for the governing Alliance of the Democratic Left and

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parties, although the very low turnout makes a direct comparison with national election results difficult. As expected the most successful party was the

Civic Platform The Civic Platform (, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a Centre-right politics, centre-right liberal conservative political party in Poland. Since ...

. Second place was taken by the strongly anti-EU League of Polish Families. The radical

populist Populism is a contested concept used to refer to a variety of political stances that emphasize the idea of the " common people" and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite. It is frequently associated with anti-establis ...

Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland, which some opinion polls had predicted would come second, came fourth after the

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party. The election results were a success for Social Democracy of Poland, which managed to cross the required 5% threshold, and the Freedom Union, which got over twice the expected percentage of votes.

Opinion polls

Results

Elected members

Civic Platform

* Jerzy Buzek, ex-prime minister, professor of technical sciences * Zdzisław Chmielewski, historian, rector of Szczecin University * Małgorzata Handzlik, publisher and journalist * Stanisław Jałowiecki, sociologist and politician * Filip Kaczmarek, historian and journalist * Bogdan Klich, expert on international politics * Barbara Kudrycka, professor of law * Janusz Lewandowski, economist, ex-minister of privatisation * Jan Olbrycht, politician, ex-mayor of

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* Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, economist, former Poland-EU negotiator * Jacek Protasiewicz, philologist and politician * Bogusław Sonik, lawyer and politician * Zbigniew Zaleski, professor of psychology * Tadeusz Zwiefka, journalist

League of Polish Families

* Filip Adwent, physician and author * Sylwester Chruszcz, architect and politician *

Maciej Giertych Maciej Marian Giertych (, born 24 March 1936 in Warsaw) is a Polish dendrologist and former far-right politician of the League of Polish Families (LPR). He favours state intervention in the economy. He was a member of the Sejm (between 2001 an ...

, politician and publicist *

Dariusz Grabowski Dariusz Maciej Grabowski (born 28 August 1950 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Masovian Voivodship with the League of Polish Families, part of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group and s ...

, economist, politician and businessman * Urszula Krupa, doctor of medicine, journalist * Mirosław Piotrowski, professor of history * Bogdan Pęk, zootechnologist and politician * Bogusław Rogalski, historian, farmer and political activist * Witold Tomczak, physician and politician * Wojciech Wierzejski, politician and sociologist

Law and Justice

* Adam Bielan, politician * Anna Fotyga, international trade expert, vice-mayor of

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(2002–2004) *

Mieczysław Janowski Mieczysław Edmund Janowski (born 16 November 1947 in Zduńska Wola) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Subcarpathian Voivodship with the Law and Justice, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations. He si ...

, doctor of technical sciences, local activist * Michał Kamiński, journalist and politician * Marcin Libicki, arts historian and politician * Wojciech Roszkowski, historian, professor of politics * Konrad Szymanski, lawyer, journalist and politician

Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland

* Marek Czarnecki, lawyer, journalist and politician * Ryszard Czarnecki, historian, journalist and politician * Bogdan Golik, animal doctor and business adviser * Wiesław Kuc, economist and agriculture expert * Jan Masiel, psychiatrist and business adviser * Leopold Rutowicz, economist and businessman

Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union

* Adam Gierek, politician, son of Edward Gierek, communist leader of Poland in the 1970s * Lidia Geringer d'Oedenberg, economist and journalist * Bogusław Liberadzki, economist, ex-minister of transport * Marek Siwiec, journalist, politician, president's advisor * Andrzej Szejna, economist, politician

Freedom Union

* Bronisław Geremek, historian and politician, ex-minister of foreign affairs * Jan Kulakowski, journalist, ex Poland-EU negotiator * Janusz Onyszkiewicz, mathematician and politician, ex-minister of defence * Grazyna Staniszewska, politician, senator

Polish People's Party

* Zbigniew Kuzmiuk, politician, chairman of PSL parliamentary caucus * Zdzisław Podkański, historian and politician, vice chairman of PSL, ex-vice minister of culture * Czesław Siekierski, agriculture economist, ex-vice minister of agriculture * Janusz Wojciechowski, lawyer and politician, chairman of PSL since March 2004

Social Democratic Party of Poland

* Genowefa Grabowska, professor of international law, senator * Józef Pinior, lawyer, economist and politician *

Dariusz Rosati Dariusz Kajetan Rosati (born 8 August 1946 as Gaetano Dario Rosati) is a Polish professor of economics and a politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2004–2009 and 2014-2019, and a deputy of the Sejm from 2011-2014 and ...

, professor of economics, ex-minister of foreign affairs

Independent

* Paweł Piskorski, politician, ex-mayor of

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References

* ''Obwieszczenie PKW z dnia 15 VI 2004 r.'', Dz.U. Nr 137, poz. 1460.

External links

European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)
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