2014 European Parliament election in Poland

2014 European Parliament election in Poland
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All 51 Polish seats to the European Parliament
Turnout23.83%[1]
  First party Second party Third party
 
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Leader Danuta Hübner Zdzisław Krasnodębski Wojciech Olejniczak
Party PO PiS SLD
Alliance EPP ECR S&D
Last election 44.43%, 25 seats 29.35%, 15 seats 12.34%, 7 seats
Seats won 19 19 5
Seat change Decrease 6 Increase 4 Decrease 2
Popular vote 2 271 215 2 246 870 667 319
Percentage 32.13% 31.78% 9.44%
Swing Decrease 12,30% Increase 2,43% Decrease 2,90%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
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Leader Janusz Korwin-Mikke Janusz Piechociński
Party KNP PSL
Alliance NI EPP
Last election – 7.01%, 3 seats
Seats won 4 4
Seat change Increase 4 Increase 1
Popular vote 505 586 480 846
Percentage 7.15% 6.80%
Swing Increase 7,15% Decrease 0,21%
Election result and the plurality list's popular vote in each constituency
Poland is divided into 13 electoral districts[2] whose numbers are displayed on the picture
right Powiats won by
■ – Civic Platform ■ – Law and Justice
■ – Polish People's Party ■ – Democratic Left Alliance

The 2014 European Parliament election in Poland elected the delegation from Poland to the European Parliament. It took place on 25 May 2014.[3][4] The Polish electorate will elect 51 MEPs, compared to 50 in the 2009 election. (In December 2011, under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, one additional MEP from the People's Party entered the Parliament,[5] bringing the number of Polish MEPs to 51). The number of MEPs is a result of the 2013 reapportionment of seats in the European Parliament. This means that Poland will have 6% of the total seats in the European Parliament.

MEPs by European Political Group (as at 30 January 2014)

National party Seats/51 EP group Seats/766
Civic Platform 24   European People's Party 274
Polish People's Party 4
Law and Justice 7   European Conservatives and Reformists 56
Poland Together 4
Independent 1
Democratic Left Alliance 5   Socialists & Democrats 195
Labour United 1
Your Movement 1
United Poland 4   Freedom & Democracy 33

Contesting committees

Name Ideology European Union position Leader Main candidate[6] Alliance 2009 result Current seats
Vote (%) Seats
Civic Platform (PO) Centrism, catch-all Hard pro-Europeanism Donald Tusk Danuta Hübner EPP 44.4%
25 / 50
24 / 51
Law and Justice (PiS)
• Right Wing of the Republic
• Piast
 National conservatism, Christian democracy Soft Euroscepticism Jarosław Kaczyński Zdzisław Krasnodębski ECR 29.4%
15 / 50
7 / 51
Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)
• Labor Union
 Social democracy, third way Hard pro-Europeanism Leszek Miller Wojciech Olejniczak S&D 12.3%
7 / 50
6 / 51
Polish People's Party (PSL) Agrarianism, Christian democracy Hard pro-Europeanism Janusz Piechociński Grzegorz Benedykciński EPP 7.0%
3 / 50
4 / 51
United Poland (SP) Solidarism, social conservatism Soft Euroscepticism Zbigniew Ziobro EFD -
0 / 50
4 / 51
Poland Together (PR) Conservative liberalism, economic liberalism Moderate pro-Europeanism Jarosław Gowin ECR -
0 / 50
4 / 51
Europa Plus (E+)
• Your Movement
• Alliance of Democrats
• Democratic Party – demokraci.pl
• Polish Labour Party
• Social Democracy of Poland
• Union of the Left
 Social liberalism, progressivism Eurofederalism Janusz Palikot Ryszard Kalisz • ALDE
• S&D
• GUE-NGL 		-
0 / 50
1 / 51
Congress of the New Right (KNP) Right-libertarianism, Laissez-faire Hard Euroscepticism Janusz Korwin-Mikke NI -
0 / 50
0 / 51
National Movement (RN)
• National Radical Camp
• All-Polish Youth
• Real Politics Union
 Polish nationalism, right-wing populism Hard Euroscepticism Robert Winnicki Krzysztof Bosak NI -
0 / 50
0 / 51

Political parties, coalitions of political parties, and nonpartisan citizens wishing to nominate candidates for the election were obliged to establish election committees and announce their creation to the State Electoral Commission until 7 April 2014. Establishment of an independent committee required signatures of at least 1,000 registered voters. 20 committees were established.[7]

The committees were able to register lists of 5 to 10 candidates in each electoral district until 15 April. Each list had to be supported by signatures of at least 10,000 voters residing in the district. However, a committee that had collected enough signatures in at least 7 electoral districts were allowed to register lists in the remaining districts regardless of local support.

As of 24 April, the State Electoral Commission has confirmed that 9 committees registered candidates in all 13 constituencies.[8]

Committees of political parties (Komitet Wyborczy)
Committees of coalitions (Koalicyjny Komitet Wyborczy)
Independent committee (Komitet Wyborczy Wyborców)

Additionally 3 committees of political parties registered lists of candidates in fewer electoral districts:[8]

8 committees failed to submit lists or collect signatures:

Committees of political parties (Komitet Wyborczy)
Independent committees (Komitet Wyborczy Wyborców)
  • KWW Gospodarka Dobra Wspólnego (voters' committee Economy of Common Good)
  • KWW Marka Wocha (voters' committee Marek Woch's Electors' Committee)
  • KWW Naprawimyto.org (voters' committee 'We will fix it')
  • KWW Obrony Wędlin Tradycyjnych (voters' committee Defence of Traditional Cold Meats)
  • KWW Oburzeni (voters' committee The Outraged)
  • KWW Wolność (voters' committee Freedom)

Leaders by constituency

Constituency PO[9] PiS[10] SLD-UP[11] PSL[12] E+[13] PRJG[14] SP[15] KNP[16] RN[17]
Pomeranian Janusz Lewandowski Anna Fotyga Longin Pastusiak Andrzej Stępniak Dorota Gardias Stefan Hambura Krzysztof Steckiewicz Artur Dziambor Tomasz Pałasz
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Jan Vincent-Rostowski Kosma Złotowski Janusz Zemke Eugeniusz Kłopotek Kazimiera Szczuka Maciej Marzec Ireneusz Stachowiak Jacek Kostrzewa Marta Cywińska
Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian Barbara Kudrycka Karol Karski Tadeusz Iwiński Stanisław Żelichowski Małgorzata Kowalska Jacek Żalek Maciej Mojzesowicz Andrzej Wyrębek Piotr Lisiecki
Warsaw Danuta Hübner Zdzisław Krasnodębski Wojciech Olejniczak Grzegorz Benedykciński Ryszard Kalisz Paweł Kowal Jacek Kurski Michał Marusik Krzysztof Bosak
Masovian Julia Pitera Wojciech Jasiński Anna Kalata Jarosław Kalinowski Andrzej Celiński Marek Czarnecki Ludwik Dorn Krzysztof Szpanelewski Witold Tumanowicz
Łódź Jacek Saryusz-Wolski Janusz Wojciechowski Weronika Marczuk Mieczysław Łuczak Ewa Wójciak John Godson Tadeusz Woźniak Adam Woch Maciej Migus
Greater Poland Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz Ryszard Czarnecki Krystyna Łybacka Andrzej Grzyb Marek Siwiec Dariusz Lipiński Andrzej Dera Zygmunt Kopacz Bartosz Józwiak
Lublin Michał Kamiński Waldemar Paruch Jacek Czerniak Arkadiusz Bratkowski Barbara Nowacka Andrzej Stanisławek Jarosław Żaczek Jan Szymona Marian Kowalski
Subcarpathian Elżbieta Łukacijewska Tomasz Poręba Tomasz Kamiński Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz Marta Niewczas Kazimierz Jaworski Mieczysław Golba Waldemar Zarębski Marcin Siembida
Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie Róża Thun Ryszard Legutko Joanna Senyszyn Czesław Siekierski Jan Hartman Jarosław Gowin Zbigniew Ziobro Stanisław Żółtek Robert Winnicki
Silesian Jerzy Buzek Bolesław Piecha Adam Gierek Stanisław Dąbrowa Kazimierz Kutz Marek Migalski Tomasz Adamek Janusz Korwin-Mikke Artur Zawisza
Lower Silesian and Opole Bogdan Zdrojewski Dawid Jackiewicz Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg Ilona Antoniszyn-Klik Robert Kwiatkowski Artur Zasada Beata Kempa Robert Iwaszkiewicz Aleksander Krejckant
Lubusz and West Pomeranian Dariusz Rosati Marek Gróbarczyk Bogusław Liberadzki Jolanta Fedak Paweł Piskorski Marek Zagórski Robert Stankiewicz Stefan Oleszczuk Sylwester Chruszcz

Opinion polls

Source Date PiS PO SLD PSL E+TR PR KNP SP Others / undecided Lead
TNS Polska 23 May 2014 26% 24% 7% 7% 3% 2% 4% 3% 26% 2% over PO
Homo Homini 23 May 2014 30.8% 30.2% 11.6% 4.8% 4.0% 1.5% 5.6% 2.1% 9.4% 0.6% over PO
PPW 22 May 2014 31.3% 29.8% 10.6% 6.8% 7.3% 4.6% 5.7% 2.6% 1.3% 1.5% over PO
Milward Brown 22 May 2014 29% 28% 9% 6% 4% 2% 7% 2% 2% 1% over PO
Estymator 22 May 2014 31% 32% 11% 7% 5% 5% 5% 2% 1% 1% over PiS
Millward Brown 20 May 2014 26% 27% 8% 5% 5% 3% 7% 2% 17.0% 1% over PiS
CBOS 20 May 2014 21% 26% 8% 5% 2% 2% 4% 1% 31.0% 5% over PiS
PPW 19 May 2014 32% 29% 11% 6% 8% 4% 5% 3% 2% 3% over PO
Homo Homini 17 May 2014 28.9% 28.0% 10.8% 4.8% 3.8% 1.5% 5.2% 2.2% 14.0% 0.9% over PO
TNS Polska 16 May 2014 29% 27% 8% 6% 6% 2% 3% 2% 17% 2% over PO
CBOS 14 May 2014 20% 21% 6% 3% 2% 1% 6% 2% 39% 1% over PiS
PPW 13 May 2014 29% 27% 13% 5% 8% 5% 7% 4% 2% 2% over PO
TNS Polska 11 May 2014 27% 24% 11% 5% 3% 3% 7% 4% 16% 3% over PO
Homo Homini Archived 1 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine 7 May 2014 30% 31% 13% 7% 6% 3% 5% 4% 1% 1% over PiS
PPW 6 May 2014 30% 28% 12% 6% 9% 4% 5% 4% 2% 2% over PO
Homo Homini 2 May 2014 29.1% 27.3% 12.7% 4.9% 4.1% 1.9% 6.2% 1.9% 12% 1.8% over PO
CBOS 30 April 2014 21% 29% 6% 4% 2% 4% 6% 1% 27% 8% over PiS
PPW 29 April 2014 32% 27% 10% 6% 10% 6% 4% 3% 2% 5% over PO
PPW 23 April 2014 31% 29% 11% 5% 8% 5% 6% 3% 2% 2% over PO
Homo Homini 18 April 2014 28.2% 26.6% 12.1% 5.1% 6.2% 2.2% 3.9% 1.7% 14.1% 1.6% over PO
TNS Polska 17 April 2014 31% 27% 8% 4% 4% 2% 3% 2% 22% 4% over PO
Estymator 12 April 2014 29% 33% 14% 6% 4% 5% 5% 2% 1% 4% over PiS
TNS Polska 7 April 2014 25% 26% 8% 8% 6% 3% 4% 4% 16% 1% over PiS
CBOS 26 March 2014 22% 24% 7% 6% 3% 4% 4% 2% 27% 2% over PiS
Estymator 22 March 2014 33% 36% 12% 5% 4% 5% 2% 2% – 3% over PiS
Homo Homini 20 March 2014 28.3% 27.3% 10.8% 5.0% 4.8% 2.3% 2.8% 2.0% – 1% over PO
TNS Polska 11 March 2014 27% 25% 8% 5% 7% 3% 3% 3% 17% 2% over PO
Homo Homini Archived 8 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine 2 March 2014 32% 26% 17% 6% 9% 3% 2% 4% 1% 6% over PO
Estymator 21 February 2014 34% 32% 11% 6% 6% 5% 3% 2% 1% 2% over PO
TNS Polska 20 February 2014 29% 19% 9% 6% 5% 2% 3% 2% 14% 10% over PO
TNS Polska 12 February 2014 25% 20% 10% 6% 11% 4% 3% 4% 17% 5% over PO
Homo Homini 20 January 2014 30% 25% 20% 8% 6% 5% 3% 2% – 5% over PO

Results

Results by EP grouping
For detailed results by constituency and party breakdown, see Results breakdown of the 2014 European Parliament election in Poland.
Party or allianceVotes%Seats+/–
Civic PlatformCivic Platform1,787,16726.7015−3
Independents484,0487.234−3
Total2,271,21533.9319−6
Law and JusticeLaw and Justice1,760,57326.3015+4
Right Wing of the Republic110,6751.651New
Independents and others00.003−1
Total2,246,87033.5719+4
Democratic Left Alliance –
Labour Union		Democratic Left Alliance584,7188.744−2
Labour Union61,5860.9210
Independents21,0150.3100
Total667,3199.975−2
Congress of the New Right505,5867.554New
Polish People's Party480,8467.184+1
Solidary Poland281,0794.200New
Europa Plus Your Movement252,7793.780New
Poland Together223,7333.340New
National Movement98,6261.470New
The Greens22,4810.340New
Direct Democracy16,2220.240New
Self-Defence2,7290.0400
Total6,693,863100.0043+1
Valid votes6,693,86396.71
Invalid/blank votes228,0053.29
Total votes6,921,868100.00
Registered voters/turnout30,636,53722.59
Source: PKW

MEPs by political group

National party Seats/51 EP group Seats/751
Civic Platform 19   European People's Party 204
Polish People's Party 4
Law and Justice 18   European Conservatives and Reformists 44
Right Wing of the Republic 1
Democratic Left Alliance 4   Socialists & Democrats 188
Labour Union 1
Congress of the New Right 4 Non-Inscrits

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  10. ^ [2] Full list of Law and Justice candidates
  11. ^ [3] Full list of Democratic Left Alliance and Labour United candidates
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  13. ^ [5] Full list of Europa Plus candidates
  14. ^ [6] Full list of Poland Together candidates
  15. ^ [7] Full list of United Poland candidates
  16. ^ [8] Full list of Congress of the New Right candidates
  17. ^ [9] Full list of National Movement candidates
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