The 2024 European Parliament election in Poland will be held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election. This will be the first to take place after Brexit. [1]
Poland will elect 53 Members of the European Parliament. Compared to last election, Poland is entitled to one more MEP in this election, already assigned since 2020 in the occasion of the redistribution post Brexit. [2]
As of 23 April 2024, 42 committees applied for registration, of which 35 have been registered so far: 25 political parties, six voters committees and four coalitions. [3]
Type | Committee | Status | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Party | Normal Country | Registered |
2 | Party | Normal Poland | Registered |
3 | Party | Free Europe | Registered |
4 | Party | Repair Poland Movement | Registered |
5 | Party | Confederation Liberty and Independence | Registered |
6 | Party | PolEXIT | Registered |
7 | Voters | Peace and Prosperity Movement | Registered |
8 | Party | Self-Defence RP | Registered |
9 | Party | Independence | Self-dissolved |
10 | Party | Right-Wing | Registered |
11 | Voters | Confederation and Nonpartisan Localists | Registered |
12 | Party | Farmers to European Parliament | Registered |
13 | Party | Liberal Poland – Entrepreneurs' Strike | Registered |
14 | Party | Slavic Union | Registered |
15 | Voters | Voice of Strong Poland | Registered |
16 | Party | Self-Defence | Registered |
17 | Party | Congress of the New Right | Registered |
18 | Party | New Hope | Registered |
19 | Party | Nonpartisans | Registered |
20 | Party | Pro-Polish Confederation | Registered |
21 | Voters | All-Poland Federation "Nonpartisans and Localists" | Registered |
22 | Coalition | PolEXIT Independence | Registered |
23 | Voters | PolEXIT?It's High Time! | Registered |
24 | Coalition | The Left | Registered |
25 | Coalition | Civic Coalition | Registered |
26 | Party | People's Party "Patrimony" RP | Registered |
27 | Party | Silesians Together | Registered |
28 | Party | Law and Justice | Registered |
29 | Party | Movement of Unity of Poles | Registered |
30 | Party | Polish National Interest | Registered |
31 | Party | Social Democracy of Poland | Registered |
32 | Voters | Farmers from the Baltic to the Tatras | Called for correction |
33 | Party | Confederation of the Polish Crown | Registered |
34 | Coalition | Third Way Poland 2050 of Szymon Hołownia - Polish People's Party | Registered |
35 | Party | Compatriots | Registered |
36 | Voters | Social Poland | Registered |
37 | Party | Conservative Party | Registered |
38 | Party | Sovereign Poland | Declared |
39 | Party | Labour Faction | Declared |
40 | Voters | „Together for the Community" | Declared |
41 | Voters | Residents of RP and Marcin Latos | Declared |
42 | Voters | Nonpartisan Anti-System | Declared |
Polling firm/Link | Fieldwork date | Sample size | United Right ECR | Third Way EPP–Ren. | Civic Coalition EPP–G/EFA–Ren. | The Left S&D | Confederation NI | Others | Don't know | Lead | |||
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Law and Justice | Kukiz'15 | SLD | Spring | Left Together | |||||||||
Ipsos / Euronews | 23 Feb-5 Mar 2024 | 1,000 | 29.2 | 16.5 | 31.3 | 8.4 | 13.9 | 2.1 | |||||
Opinia24 / TOK FM | 26–28 Feb 2024 | 1,002 | 22 | 11 | 31 | 11 | 10 | 3 [lower-alpha 1] | 11 | 9 | |||
Opinia24 / More In Common Polska | 2–13 Feb 2024 | 2,027 | 29.0 | 14.0 | 33.5 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 1.3 | 6.2 | 4.5 | |||
Portland Communications | 24–31 Jan 2024 | 632 | 29 | 16 | 35 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 6 | ||||
Parliamentary election | 15 Oct 2023 | 21,596,674 [lower-alpha 2] | 35.38 | 14.40 | 30.70 | 8.61 | 7.16 | 3.71 | 4.68 | ||||
Parliamentary election | 13 Oct 2019 | 18,678,457 [lower-alpha 3] | 43.59 | 8.55 | 27.40 | 12.56 | 6.81 | 1.09 | 16.19 | ||||
European election | 26 May 2019 | 13,647,311 [lower-alpha 4] | 45.38 27 | 3.69 0 | 38.47 22 | 6.06 3 | 1.24 0 | 4.55 0 | 0.60 | 6.91 | |||
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