European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

Poland European Parliament election, 2004
Poland
13 June 2004
54 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout 20.87%

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Donald Tusk Roman Giertych Jarosław Kaczyński
Party PO LPR PiS
Alliance EPP AEN AEN
Leader since 1 June 2003 21 April 2001 18 January 2003
Seats won 15 seats 10 seats 7 seats
Popular vote 1,467,775 969 689 771 858
Percentage 24,1% 15,92% 12,67%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Andrzej Lepper Krzysztof Janik Władysław Frasyniuk
Party SRP SLD UW
Alliance AEN PES ALDE
Leader since 10 January 1992 6 March 2004 14 October 2001
Seats won 6 seats 5 4
Popular vote 656 782 569 311 446 549
Percentage 10,78% 9,35% 7,33%
  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Janusz Wojciechowski Marek Borowski
Party PSL SDPL
Alliance EPP PES
Leader since 16 March 2004 26 March 2004
Seats won 4 3
Popular vote 386 340 324 707
Percentage 6,34% 5,33%

Elections to the European Parliament were held in Poland on 13 June 2004. 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 Labor Union 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. Second place was taken by the strongly anti-EU League of Polish Families.

The radical populist Self-Defense of the Polish Republic, which some opinion polls had predicted would come second, came fourth after the Law and Justice 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.

Results

Registered voters: 29,986,109
Votes cast: 6,265,062 (20.9%)
Invalid votes: 173,531 (2.8%)
Valid votes: 6,091,531 (97.2%)

 Summary of the results of Poland's 13 June 2004 election to the European Parliament
2004 • 2009 • 2014
National party European party Votes % +/– Seats +/–
Civic Platform (PO) EPP 1,467,775 24.10 —
15 / 54
 —
League of Polish Families (LPR) AEN 969,689 15.92 —
10 / 54
 —
Law and Justice (PiS) AEN 771,858 12.67 —
7 / 54
 —
Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SoRP) AEN + PES 656,782 10.78 —
6 / 54
 —
Democratic Left Alliance – Labor Union (SLD–UP) PES 561,311 9.35 —
5 / 54
 —
Freedom Union (UW) ALDE 446,549 7.33 —
4 / 54
 —
People's Party (PSL) EPP 386,340 6.34 —
4 / 54
 —
Social Democracy (SDPL) PES 324,707 5.33 —
3 / 54
 —
Real Politics Union (UPR) 113,675 1.87 — 0 —
National Electoral Committee (NKWW) 94,867 1.56 — 0 —
Polish Initiative (IdP) 88,565 1.45 — 0 —
Others —
Valid votes 6,091,531 97.33
Blank and invalid votes 167,019 2.67
Totals 6,258,550 100.00 — 54 —
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout 29,986,109 20.87 —
Source:

Opinion polls

Polling firm PO LPR PiS SRP SLD-UP UW PSL SDPL Others Lead
Election results 24,1% 15,9% 12,7% 10,8% 9,3% 7,3% 6,3% 5,3% 8,3% 8,2% over LPR
PBS 28% 15% 12% 14% 11% 5% 6% 4% 5% 13% over LPR
TNS OBOP 28,7% 15,1% 10,9% 14,4% 10,5% 5,3% 6,2% 4,1% 4,8% 13,6% over LPR
Exit polls
CBOS 31% 8% 14% 16% 10% 3% 4% 5% 9% 15% over SRP
PBS 30% 11% 11% 18% 8% 5% 7% 4% 6% 12% over SRP
TNS OBOP 27% 13% 6% 16% 6% 4% 4% - 24% 11% over SRP
Ipsos 27% 12,6% 16,5% 16,5% 4,6% 3,8% 3,4% 5% 10,6% 10,5% over SRP/PiS
Pentor 26% 11% 12% 23% 8% 3% 6% 6% 5% 3% over SRP

Polish MEPs Members of European Parliament

Civic Platform

League of Polish Families

Law and Justice

Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland

Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union

Freedom Union

Polish People's Party

Social Democratic Party of Poland

Independent

See also

References

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