2005 Polish presidential election
2005 Polish presidential election Turnout 49.72% (first round) pp
Results of the second round
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 9 October and 23 October 2005. The outgoing President of Poland , Aleksander Kwaśniewski , had served two five-year terms and was unable to stand for a third term. Lech Kaczyński defeated Donald Tusk to become President of Poland.
The election took place just a month after PiS also defeated Tusk's Civic Platform in the parliamentary elections .
Background
Two center -right candidates, Donald Tusk , chairman of the Civic Platform (PO) and Deputy Marshal of the Sejm, and Lech Kaczyński , honorary chairman of Law and Justice (PiS) and mayor of Warsaw , led the poll in the first round, as was widely expected. As neither received 50 percent of the vote, a second-round was held on 23 October. In this round, Kaczyński defeated Tusk, polling 54.04 percent of the vote.
Although both leading candidates came from the center-right, and their two parties had planned to form a coalition government following the legislative elections on 25 September, there were important differences between Tusk and Kaczyński. Tusk wanted to enforce separation of church and state , favored rapid European integration and supported a free-market economy . Kaczyński was very socially conservative , a soft Eurosceptic , and supported state interventionism . Such differences led to the failure of PiS-PO coalition talks in late October.
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz , the candidate of the Alliance of the Democratic Left , which was the governing party before the legislative election withdrew from the race on September 14. At the time he withdrew he was third in the polls, still having the most chances to get to the second round (besides Kaczyński and Tusk).
Other candidates, who withdrew from the elections, but initially have signed to, were Zbigniew Religa and Maciej Giertych . Daniel Tomasz Podrzycki , who had also signed, died in an accident before the elections.
Ten people had registered themselves in election procedure, but failed to gather 100,000 support signatures: Arnold Buzdygan, Stanisław Ceberek, Gabriel Janowski , Jan Antoni Kiełb, Waldemar Janusz Kossakowski, Marian Romuald Rembelski, Zbigniew Roliński , Sławomir Salomon, Maria Szyszkowska , Bolesław Tejkowski .
The figure of Józef Tusk , grandfather of incumbent Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk , was in the center of the "Wehrmacht affair " over his brief period of service after being drafted into the German army during the late stages of World War II , which was the biggest controversy of the election.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Candidates
Physician Jan Pyszko (Polish League), 75
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Dead
Opinion polls
Pollster
Date of polling
Kaczyński PiS Tusk PO Lepper SRP Borowski SDPL Kalinowski PSL Korwin-Mikke UPR Bochniarz PD Religa Centrum Cimoszewicz SLD Giertych LPR Others
Election results
9 October 2005
33.10
36.33
15.11
10.33
1.80
1.43
1.26
-
-
-
0.70
PGB
30 September 2005
31
35
17
11
2
1
1
-
-
2
0
Rzeczpospolita
17 September 2005
29
51
7
7
2
-
-
2
2
PBS
15 September 2005
22
49
9
8
3
2
2
-
-
3
2
Polityka
13 September 2005
22
43
10
-
17
8
Ipsos
9 August 2005
24
24
12
5
3
2
0
7
19
2
2
OBOP
8 August 2005
21
23
9
5
2
7
26
3
4
PBS
8 August 2005
20
19
14
3
9
23
4
8
PGB
13 July 2005
22
11
15
6
3
1
9
23
6
4
OBOP
11 July 2005
19
12
11
2.4
1.9
12
35
2.4
4.3
CBOS
8 July 2005
20
9
12
5
3
13
31
3
4
Gazeta Wyborcza
6 July 2005
18
12
10
5
3
14
29
3
6
CBOS
10 June 2005
25
11
12
14
3
23
4
8
CBOS
17 May 2005
22
13
14
10
15
14
2
10
PBS
13 May 2005
27
14
9
16
15
19
PGB
2 May 2005
23
13
13
10
9
10
22
Pentor
25 April 2005
21
9
13
9
22
15
2
9
PBS
22 April 2005
26
11
11
12
16
14
4
6
PGB
20 April 2005
24
13
13
14
7
8
9
12
Results
Voter turnout in the first round was low with only 49.7% of all eligible voters casting their votes.
Results of the first round Candidate Party First round Second round Votes % Votes % Lech Kaczyński Law and Justice 4,947,927 33.10 8,257,468 54.04 Donald Tusk Civic Platform 5,429,666 36.33 7,022,319 45.96 Andrzej Lepper Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland 2,259,094 15.11 Marek Borowski Social Democracy of Poland 1,544,642 10.33 Jarosław Kalinowski Polish People's Party 269,316 1.80 Janusz Korwin-Mikke Real Politics Union 214,116 1.43 Henryka Bochniarz Democratic Party 188,598 1.26 Liwiusz Ilasz [pl ] Independent 31,691 0.21 Stanisław Tymiński All-Polish Citizens Coalition [pl ] 23,545 0.16 Leszek Bubel [pl ] Polish National Party 18,828 0.13 Jan Pyszko [pl ] Organisation of the Polish Nation – Polish League 10,371 0.07 Adam Słomka [pl ] Polish Confederation – Dignity and Work 8,895 0.06 Total 14,946,689 100.00 15,279,787 100.00 Valid votes 14,946,689 99.34 15,279,787 98.99 Invalid/blank votes 99,661 0.66 155,233 1.01 Total votes 15,046,350 100.00 15,435,020 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 30,260,027 49.72 30,279,209 50.98 Source: PKW , PKW
References
External links
Polish presidential elections
Indirect elections Direct elections
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