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Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 23 March 1980. [1] The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1980 election exactly duplicated the 1976 elections, which were only marginally different from those of the preceding years.
| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |||
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| Front of National Unity | Polish United Workers' Party | 24,683,056 | 99.52 | 261 | 0 | ||
| United People's Party | 113 | 0 | |||||
| Democratic Party | 37 | 0 | |||||
| Independents | 49 | 0 | |||||
| Blank ballots | 119,556 | 0.48 | – | – | |||
| Total | 24,802,612 | 100.00 | 460 | 0 | |||
| Valid votes | 24,802,612 | 99.94 | |||||
| Invalid votes | 13,692 | 0.06 | |||||
| Total votes | 24,816,304 | 100.00 | |||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 25,098,816 | 98.87 | |||||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||||
As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total. [2] [3]
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