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WYBORY DO SEJMIKU WOJEWÓDZTWA ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIEGO W 2010 ROKU
ELECTIONS TO THE WEST POMERANIAN REGIONAL ASSEMBLY IN THE YEAR 2010

Author(s): Michał Siedziako
Subject(s): Electoral systems
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: self-gornment elections in Poland; electoral campaigns; political parties

Summary/Abstract: The year 2010 in Poland saw the elections to the local self-government authorities. The voters were deciding on their representatives on the voivodship level for the fourth time ever since the 1998 reform was introduced. This article concerns the elections to the West Pomeranian Regional Assembly. It has been divided into six parts describing basic rules of the electoral system, the candidates, their programs and the campaigns of the four major political forces in the country – Civic Platform, Law and Justice, Democratic Left Alliance and Polish Peasants’ Party. Besides, the results at the ballot box are discussed later in the essay. The 2010 elections to the West Pomeranian Regional Assembly have not brought in any significant political changes. The power was upheld by the Civic Platform – Polish Peasants’ Party coalition, although the former have enjoyed a greater social trust gaining enough votes to rule on their own. Such an outcome has only proven the northwest of Poland to be one of the Civic Platform’s bulwarks.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 81-123
  • Page Count: 43
  • Language: Polish
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