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Parliamentary elections will be held in Poland by 11 November 2027 at the latest to elect members of the Sejm and Senate, although they can be held sooner if a snap election is called. The last snap election was in 2007. The previous elections in 2023 saw the Law and Justice party win the most seats but fail to form a governing coalition, with a coalition government led by Civic Platform's Donald Tusk formed.
The Sejm is elected by party-list proportional representation with seats allocated via the D'Hondt method in multi-seat constituencies, [1] with a 5% threshold for single parties and 8% threshold for coalitions (requirements waived for national minorities).
The date of the election will be set by the President of Poland. If the election is not called early, it has to take place within 30 days before the expiration of the current term and fall on a non-working day. The possible dates are:
The Civic Coalition is a coalition made up of the Civic Platform, Modern, Polish Initiative, and the Greens. The PO has been Poland's second largest political party since 2015 but became the largest party again in the 2024 EP election. They were the leading party of government from 2007 to 2015 and are members of the European People's Party Group (EPP Group).
Law and Justice was in power as the leader of a coalition government between 2015 and the 2023 Polish parliamentary election and was also the leading party of government from 2005 to 2007. It is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.
Poland 2050 is a centre-right party led by Szymon Hołownia, who was a journalist and presenter before entering politics in 2020. It is a Christian democratic party with socially conservative, liberal-conservative and pro-European views. In the 2023 election, it ran together with the Polish People's Party in the Third Way alliance, which was dissolved in June 2025. Hołownia is the Marshal of the Sejm from 2023, and also ran in the 2025 presidential election, winning 4.99% of the popular vote in the first round. It represents the conservative faction of the ruling coaliton.
The Polish People's Party is the oldest still functioning party in Poland. Originally founded in 1895 as an agrarian peasant movement, its identity constantly shifted over time. From 1990 to late 2000s, it acted as a left-wing, agrarian socialist but socially conservative post-communist party; after forming a coaliton with the Civic Platform in 2007, it shifted towards the centre and embraced economic liberalism, and it subsequently became a right-wing party in the 2010s. It entered the government coalition in 2023 where it acted as a right-wing force, blocking socially liberal reforms.
The New Left is composed of social liberals and social democrats. The alliance's main predecessor, Democratic Left Alliance has been in government coalitions twice: first time in 1993, second in 2001. NL is a member of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group.
Confederation is a de jure party but de facto coalition of New Hope and the National Movement. They hold a mixture of right-libertarian, right-wing populist and nationalist views. They are members of Europe of Sovereign Nations Group (New Hope) and Patriots for Europe (National Movement).
Razem is a social democratic party, [2] with democratic socialist and social liberal elements. [3] [4] It was elected as part of The Left alliance together with New Left and became a part of the ruling coalition, but it left the government and moved to opposition in October 2024 in protest of the ruling parties' austerity economic policy. [5] The party fielded its own candidate in the 2025 Polish presidential election, [6] and is considered likely to run independently in the next parliamentary election as well. [7]
Confederation of the Polish Crown is a Catholic fundamentalist and monarchist political party led by Grzegorz Braun. [8] It was part of the Confederation coalition until January 2025, when Braun was expelled from the alliance. [9] In the 2025 Polish presidential election, Braun won 6.34% of the popular vote, gaining fourth place, even though he was only seventh in the polls. [10] Following this unexpected success, Braun announced the creation of a "broad fire extinguisher front" to contest the next parliamentary election, which would represent "the right that is truly anti-systemic, not drifting towards the centre" and which is "truly national and Catholic". [11]
Free Republicans is a small right-wing political party led by Marek Jakubiak and Paweł Kukiz, [15] based on the previous party of Kukiz and Jakubiak, Kukiz'15. [14] Its 4 MPs were elected in the 2023 election from the electoral lists of Law and Justice and then formed its own independent parliamentary group. The party ran in the 2025 presidential election, where its leader Jakubiak won 0.77% of the popular vote in the first round, and subsequently endorsed Karol Nawrocki, the candidate of PiS, for the second. The party seeks to present a right-wing alternative based on uniting patriotic movements as well as those disappointed with the agricultural policies of PiS. [16] [17]
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People's history of Poland is usually associated with the history of Polish peasants, which permeates the discourse of leftwing parties, especially the social-democratic party Razem (Together).
Because the Left group's sole Eastern representative (KSČM) currently has no national parliamentary representation, we included Razem, a democratic socialist party with social democratic elements, that has national representation but no MEP.
However, it is difficult to judge its chances so far. It is doubtful if the model of the successful Greek Coalition of the radical left (SYRIZA) can be applied in post-communist states. A similar attempt occurred also in Poland with Razem [Together], established in 2015, in this case not taking an explicitly anti-capitalist position but rather advocating grassroots activism and Green social liberalism.
Other candidates so far include the co-leader of the far-right Confederation (PfE/ESN), Sławomir Mentzen, and Marek Jakubiak of the small right-wing party, the Free Republicans.
