2014 European Parliament election in Poland

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2014 European Parliament election in Poland
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All 51 Polish seats to the European Parliament
Turnout23.83% [1]
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
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Leader Danuta Hübner Zdzisław Krasnodębski Wojciech Olejniczak
Party PO PiS SLD
Alliance EPP ECR S&D
Last election44.43%, 25 seats29.35%, 15 seats12.34%, 7 seats
Seats won19195
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 6Increase2.svg 4Decrease2.svg 2
Popular vote2 271 2152 246 870667 319
Percentage32.13%31.78%9.44%
SwingDecrease2.svg 12.30%Increase2.svg 2.43%Decrease2.svg 2.90%
 Fourth partyFifth party
 
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Leader Janusz Korwin-Mikke Janusz Piechociński
Party KNP PSL
Alliance NI EPP
Last election–7.01%, 3 seats
Seats won44
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 4Increase2.svg 1
Popular vote505 586480 846
Percentage7.15%6.80%
SwingIncrease2.svg 7.15%Decrease2.svg 0.21%
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Election result and the plurality list's popular vote in each constituency
Poland is divided into 13 electoral districts whose numbers are displayed on the picture European Parliament constituencies Poland.png
Poland is divided into 13 electoral districts whose numbers are displayed on the picture
right Powiats won by # - Civic Platform # - Law and Justice # - Polish People's Party # - Democratic Left Alliance Wybory do Parlamentu Europejskiego w Polsce 2014.png
right Powiats won by
■ – Civic Platform ■ – Law and Justice
■ – Polish People's Party ■ – Democratic Left Alliance

The 2014 European Parliament election in Poland elected the delegation from Poland to the European Parliament. It took place on 25 May 2014. [3] [4] The Polish electorate will elect 51 MEPs, compared to 50 in the 2009 election. (In December 2011, under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, one additional MEP from the People's Party entered the Parliament, [5] bringing the number of Polish MEPs to 51). The number of MEPs is a result of the 2013 reapportionment of seats in the European Parliament. This means that Poland will have 6% of the total seats in the European Parliament.

Contents

MEPs by European Political Group (as at 30 January 2014)

National party Seats/51EP group Seats/766
Civic Platform 24  European People's Party 274
Polish People's Party 4
Law and Justice 7  European Conservatives and Reformists 56
Poland Together 4
Independent 1
Democratic Left Alliance 5  Socialists & Democrats 195
Labour United 1
Your Movement 1
United Poland 4  Freedom & Democracy 33

Contesting committees

NameIdeologyEuropean Union positionLeaderMain candidate [6] Alliance2009 resultCurrent seats
Vote (%)Seats
Civic Platform (PO) Centrism, catch-all Hard pro-Europeanism Donald Tusk Danuta Hübner EPP 44.4%
25 / 50
24 / 51
Law and Justice (PiS)
• Right Wing of the Republic
• Piast
National conservatism, Christian democracy Soft Euroscepticism Jarosław Kaczyński Zdzisław Krasnodębski ECR 29.4%
15 / 50
7 / 51
Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)
• Labor Union
Social democracy, third way Hard pro-Europeanism Leszek Miller Wojciech Olejniczak S&D 12.3%
7 / 50
6 / 51
Polish People's Party (PSL) Agrarianism, Christian democracy Hard pro-Europeanism Janusz Piechociński Grzegorz Benedykciński EPP 7.0%
3 / 50
4 / 51
United Poland (SP) Solidarism, social conservatism Soft Euroscepticism Zbigniew Ziobro EFD -
0 / 50
4 / 51
Poland Together (PR) Conservative liberalism, economic liberalism Moderate pro-Europeanism Jarosław Gowin ECR -
0 / 50
4 / 51
Europa Plus (E+)
• Your Movement
• Alliance of Democrats
• Democratic Party – demokraci.pl
• Polish Labour Party
• Social Democracy of Poland
• Union of the Left
Social liberalism, progressivism Eurofederalism Janusz Palikot Ryszard Kalisz • ALDE
• S&D
• GUE-NGL 		-
0 / 50
1 / 51
Congress of the New Right (KNP) Right-libertarianism, Laissez-faire Hard Euroscepticism Janusz Korwin-Mikke NI -
0 / 50
0 / 51
National Movement (RN)
• National Radical Camp
• All-Polish Youth
• Real Politics Union
Polish nationalism, right-wing populism Hard Euroscepticism Robert Winnicki Krzysztof Bosak NI -
0 / 50
0 / 51

Political parties, coalitions of political parties, and nonpartisan citizens wishing to nominate candidates for the election were obliged to establish election committees and announce their creation to the State Electoral Commission until 7 April 2014. Establishment of an independent committee required signatures of at least 1,000 registered voters. 20 committees were established. [7]

The committees were able to register lists of 5 to 10 candidates in each electoral district until 15 April. Each list had to be supported by signatures of at least 10,000 voters residing in the district. However, a committee that had collected enough signatures in at least 7 electoral districts were allowed to register lists in the remaining districts regardless of local support.

As of 24 April, the State Electoral Commission has confirmed that 9 committees registered candidates in all 13 constituencies. [8]

Committees of political parties (Komitet Wyborczy)
Committees of coalitions (Koalicyjny Komitet Wyborczy)
Independent committee (Komitet Wyborczy Wyborców)

Additionally 3 committees of political parties registered lists of candidates in fewer electoral districts: [8]

8 committees failed to submit lists or collect signatures:

Committees of political parties (Komitet Wyborczy)
Independent committees (Komitet Wyborczy Wyborców)

Leaders by constituency

Constituency PO [9] PiS [10] SLD-UP [11] PSL [12] E+ [13] PRJG [14] SP [15] KNP [16] RN [17]
Pomeranian Janusz Lewandowski Anna Fotyga Longin Pastusiak Andrzej Stępniak Dorota Gardias Stefan Hambura Krzysztof Steckiewicz Artur Dziambor Tomasz Pałasz
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Jan Vincent-Rostowski Kosma Złotowski Janusz Zemke Eugeniusz Kłopotek Kazimiera Szczuka Maciej Marzec Ireneusz Stachowiak Jacek Kostrzewa Marta Cywińska
Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian Barbara Kudrycka Karol Karski Tadeusz Iwiński Stanisław Żelichowski Małgorzata Kowalska Jacek Żalek Maciej Mojzesowicz Andrzej Wyrębek Piotr Lisiecki
Warsaw Danuta Hübner Zdzisław Krasnodębski Wojciech Olejniczak Grzegorz Benedykciński Ryszard Kalisz Paweł Kowal Jacek Kurski Michał Marusik Krzysztof Bosak
Masovian Julia Pitera Wojciech Jasiński Anna Kalata Jarosław Kalinowski Andrzej Celiński Marek Czarnecki Ludwik Dorn Krzysztof Szpanelewski Witold Tumanowicz
Łódź Jacek Saryusz-Wolski Janusz Wojciechowski Weronika Marczuk Mieczysław Łuczak Ewa Wójciak John Godson Tadeusz Woźniak Adam Woch Maciej Migus
Greater Poland Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz Ryszard Czarnecki Krystyna Łybacka Andrzej Grzyb Marek Siwiec Dariusz Lipiński Andrzej Dera Zygmunt Kopacz Bartosz Józwiak
Lublin Michał Kamiński Waldemar Paruch Jacek Czerniak Arkadiusz Bratkowski Barbara Nowacka Andrzej Stanisławek Jarosław Żaczek Jan Szymona Marian Kowalski
Subcarpathian Elżbieta Łukacijewska Tomasz Poręba Tomasz Kamiński Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz Marta Niewczas Kazimierz Jaworski Mieczysław Golba Waldemar Zarębski Marcin Siembida
Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie Róża Thun Ryszard Legutko Joanna Senyszyn Czesław Siekierski Jan Hartman Jarosław Gowin Zbigniew Ziobro Stanisław Żółtek Robert Winnicki
Silesian Jerzy Buzek Bolesław Piecha Adam Gierek Stanisław Dąbrowa Kazimierz Kutz Marek Migalski Tomasz Adamek Janusz Korwin-Mikke Artur Zawisza
Lower Silesian and Opole Bogdan Zdrojewski Dawid Jackiewicz Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg Ilona Antoniszyn-Klik Robert Kwiatkowski Artur Zasada Beata Kempa Robert Iwaszkiewicz Aleksander Krejckant
Lubusz and West Pomeranian Dariusz Rosati Marek Gróbarczyk Bogusław Liberadzki Jolanta Fedak Paweł Piskorski Marek Zagórski Robert Stankiewicz Stefan Oleszczuk Sylwester Chruszcz

Opinion polls

SourceDate PiS PO SLD PSL E+TR PR KNP SP Others / undecidedLead
TNS Polska 23 May 201426%24%7%7%3%2%4%3%26%2%over PO
Homo Homini 23 May 201430.8%30.2%11.6%4.8%4.0%1.5%5.6%2.1%9.4%0.6%over PO
PPW 22 May 201431.3%29.8%10.6%6.8%7.3%4.6%5.7%2.6%1.3%1.5%over PO
Milward Brown 22 May 201429%28%9%6%4%2%7%2%2%1%over PO
Estymator 22 May 201431%32%11%7%5%5%5%2%1%1%over PiS
Millward Brown 20 May 201426%27%8%5%5%3%7%2%17.0%1%over PiS
CBOS 20 May 201421%26%8%5%2%2%4%1%31.0%5%over PiS
PPW 19 May 201432%29%11%6%8%4%5%3%2%3%over PO
Homo Homini 17 May 201428.9%28.0%10.8%4.8%3.8%1.5%5.2%2.2%14.0%0.9%over PO
TNS Polska 16 May 201429%27%8%6%6%2%3%2%17%2%over PO
CBOS 14 May 201420%21%6%3%2%1%6%2%39%1%over PiS
PPW 13 May 201429%27%13%5%8%5%7%4%2%2%over PO
TNS Polska 11 May 201427%24%11%5%3%3%7%4%16%3%over PO
Homo Homini Archived 1 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine 7 May 201430%31%13%7%6%3%5%4%1%1%over PiS
PPW 6 May 201430%28%12%6%9%4%5%4%2%2%over PO
Homo Homini 2 May 201429.1%27.3%12.7%4.9%4.1%1.9%6.2%1.9%12%1.8%over PO
CBOS 30 April 201421%29%6%4%2%4%6%1%27%8%over PiS
PPW 29 April 201432%27%10%6%10%6%4%3%2%5%over PO
PPW 23 April 201431%29%11%5%8%5%6%3%2%2%over PO
Homo Homini 18 April 201428.2%26.6%12.1%5.1%6.2%2.2%3.9%1.7%14.1%1.6%over PO
TNS Polska 17 April 201431%27%8%4%4%2%3%2%22%4%over PO
Estymator 12 April 201429%33%14%6%4%5%5%2%1%4%over PiS
TNS Polska 7 April 201425%26%8%8%6%3%4%4%16%1%over PiS
CBOS 26 March 201422%24%7%6%3%4%4%2%27%2%over PiS
Estymator 22 March 201433%36%12%5%4%5%2%2%–3%over PiS
Homo Homini 20 March 201428.3%27.3%10.8%5.0%4.8%2.3%2.8%2.0%–1%over PO
TNS Polska 11 March 201427%25%8%5%7%3%3%3%17%2%over PO
Homo Homini Archived 8 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine 2 March 201432%26%17%6%9%3%2%4%1%6%over PO
Estymator 21 February 201434%32%11%6%6%5%3%2%1%2%over PO
TNS Polska 20 February 201429%19%9%6%5%2%3%2%14%10%over PO
TNS Polska 12 February 201425%20%10%6%11%4%3%4%17%5%over PO
Homo Homini 20 January 201430%25%20%8%6%5%3%2%–5%over PO

Results

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Results by EP grouping
Party or allianceVotes%Seats+/–
Civic Platform Civic Platform 1,787,16726.7015−3
Independents484,0487.234−3
Total2,271,21533.9319−6
Law and Justice Law and Justice 1,760,57326.3015+4
Right Wing of the Republic 110,6751.651New
Independents and others00.003−1
Total2,246,87033.5719+4
Democratic Left Alliance –
Labour Union 		Democratic Left Alliance 584,7188.744−2
Labour Union 61,5860.9210
Independents21,0150.3100
Total667,3199.975−2
Congress of the New Right 505,5867.554New
Polish People's Party 480,8467.184+1
Solidary Poland 281,0794.200New
Europa Plus Your Movement 252,7793.780New
Poland Together 223,7333.340New
National Movement 98,6261.470New
The Greens 22,4810.340New
Direct Democracy 16,2220.240New
Self-Defence 2,7290.0400
Total6,693,863100.0043+1
Valid votes6,693,86396.71
Invalid/blank votes228,0053.29
Total votes6,921,868100.00
Registered voters/turnout30,636,53722.59
Source: PKW

MEPs by political group

National party Seats/51EP group Seats/751
Civic Platform 19  European People's Party 204
Polish People's Party 4
Law and Justice 18  European Conservatives and Reformists 44
Right Wing of the Republic 1
Democratic Left Alliance 4  Socialists & Democrats 188
Labour Union 1
Congress of the New Right 4 Non-Inscrits

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  9. ↑ Full list of Civic Platform candidates
  10. ↑ Full list of Law and Justice candidates
  11. ↑ Full list of Democratic Left Alliance and Labour United candidates
  12. ↑ Full list of Polish People's Party candidates
  13. ↑ Full list of Europa Plus candidates
  14. ↑ Full list of Poland Together candidates
  15. ↑ Full list of United Poland candidates
  16. ↑ Full list of Congress of the New Right candidates
  17. ↑ Full list of National Movement candidates
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