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Relevant Election Results
(% of votes, major parties only)
Party / Coalition
1991 1993 1997 2001
Labor Union
UP
7.3
4.7
Alliance of the Democratic Left
SLD 12.0 20.4 27.1 41.0
Polish Peasant Party
PSL
6.7
15.4
7.3
9.0
Self-Defense
SO
2.8
0.1
10.2
Freedom Union
UW 19.8 14.6 13.4
3.1
Civic Platform
PO
12.7
Center Alliance
PC
8.7
4.4
Christian National Union
ZChN 9.0
6.4
Solidarity Trade Union
NSZZ 5.1
4.9
Solidarity Election Action
AWS
33.8
5.6
Law and Justice
PiS
9.5
Confederation of Independent Poland KPN 7.5
5.8
League of Polish Families
LPR
7.9
Notes:
• Before 2001, the SLD ran as an SLD coalition around the Social Democracy of Poland
(SdRP); in 2001, after becoming the SLD party, it ran in a coalition with UP.
• UW was created through a merger of the Liberal Democratic Congress and the Demo-
cratic Union. The election results for UW in 1991 and 1993 represent the sum of both
parties’ individual results.
• In 1997, AWS was a coalition comprised of ZChN, the Party of Christian Democracy
(PChD), the Conservative People’s Party (SKL) and the Solidarity Trade Union. In
2001, it ran as AWS of the Right (AWSP), a rump alliance based on ZChN.
Presidents:
1. Wojciech Jaruzelski
(31 December 1989 – 22 December 1990)
2. Lech Wałęsa
(22 December 1990 – 23 December 1995)
3. Aleksander Kwaśniewski
(23 December 1995 – today)
Governments:
1. Tadeusz Mazowiecki
(24 August 1989 – 14 December 1990)
2. Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
(12 January 1991 – 5 December 1991)
3. Jan Olszewski
(23 December 1991 – 5 April 1992)
4. Waldemar Pawlak I
(5 June 1992 - 10 July 1992)
5. Hanna Suchocka
(11 July 1992 – 25 October 1993)
6. Waldemar Pawlak II
(26 October 1993 – 1 March 1995)
7. Józef Oleksy
(4 March 1995 – 26 January 1996)
8. Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
(5 February 1996 – 17 October 1997)
9. Jerzy Buzek
(17 October 1997 – 19 October 2001)
10. Leszek Miller
(19 October 2001- 2 May 2004)
11. Marek Belka
(2 May 2004 – today)
