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 | % |
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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.
See also
Polish parliamentary election, 2005
External links
- Angus Reid Consultants - Election Tracker
- "Presidential Calculator", Rzeczpospolita
- Official results