Kto traci a kto zyskuje na systemie podziału mandatów pomiędzy okręgi w wyborach do Parlamentu Europejskiego w Polsce
Who Loses and Who Wins under the System of Distribution of Seats between Constituencies in Elections to the European Parliament in Poland?

Summary/Abstract: In Poland, the system of election to the European Parliament is based on a multistage procedure for thedivision of seats, which has departed from Polish traditional and well-established model of territorialrepresentation. As a result, seats are not permanently assigned to constituencies and are allocated “dynamically”depending on the distribution of the votes among the constituency list of candidates. Beforethe election, nobody knows how many seats will be fi nally obtained by the region. As a consequenceof this system the distribution of seats is unjust and incompatible with the principle of substantive equalityand which, at the starting point, discriminates against constituencies with less than 2.2 million voters.It does not provide for the proper performance of the function of territorial representation, nor doesit reward (in a consistent manner) those constituencies in which the turnout is higher than the nationalone, instead leading to paradoxical divisions. This system, inconsistently and without reliance on anyreasonable criteria, favours or discriminate against constituencies with of the same number or percentageof those taking part in voting. There is, no rational and justifi ed reasons to keep it

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