Polish presidential election, 2005

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Presidential elections were held in Poland on October 9 and October 23, 2005. The outgoing President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, had served two five-year terms and was unable to stand for a third term.

Two center-right candidates, Donald Tusk, chairman of the Civic Platform party (PO), and Lech Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice party (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 about 54 percent of the vote (counting is not yet complete).

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 is considered somewhat more socially and economically liberal, favoring more rapid European integration and a free-market economy. Kaczyński is more socially conservative, in the tradition of post-Communist Poland's first President, Lech Wałęsa, and is more suspicious towards the European Union. Such differences led to the failure of PiS-PO coalition talks in late October.

Voters turnout in the first round was quite low with only 49.6 percent of all eligible voters casting their votes.


Summary of 9 October Presidential election results Votes 1st round % Votes 2nd round %
Donald Franciszek Tusk - Citizens Platform 5,429,666 36.3 7,022,319 45.96
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński - Law and Justice 4,947,927 33.1 8,257,468 54.04
Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper - Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland 2,259,094 15.1 - -
Marek Stefan Borowski - Social Democracy of Poland 1,544,642 10.3 - -
Jarosław Kalinowski - Polish Peasant Party 269,316 1.8 - -
Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke - Janusz Korwin-Mikke Platform 214,116 1.4 - -
Henryka Teodora Bochniarz - Democratic Party 188,598 1.3 - -
Liwiusz Marian Ilasz 31,691 0.2 - -
Stanisław Tymiński - All-Polish Citizens Coalition 23,545 0.2 - -
Leszek Henryk Bubel - Polish National Party 18,828 0.1 - -
Jan Pyszko 10,371 0.1 - -
Adam Andrzej Słomka 8,895 0.1 - -
Total (turnout 49.7 %) 15,046,350 100    

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.

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Polish parliamentary election, 2005

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