Im dłużej tym „bezpartyjniej”? Włodarze dużych miast w wyborach 2002–2018
The longer this „non-partisan”? Elections of leaders of Polish major cities in the 2002–2018

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the research undertaken in the article are the competitions (in the years 2002–2018) for the position of the mayor of the city in 19. Polish cities. The main goal was to find answer for thequestion: was party affiliation promoted incumbents or rather favored the alternation of power in thecities. The position of political parties was examined on the basis of two criteria. The first one was thenumber of incumbents affiliated with political parties. Another was the number of participants in themayor’s competitions who obtained the second result after the winner. In the examined cities 60. reelectioncases were recorded – in the majority there were nonpartisan incumbents. In 16 cases of poweralternation, however, the candidates of political parties dominated. In the years 2002–2018 in all citiesthere were exactly 95 elections (19 cities x 5 elections) – in as many as 74 of them the main rivals ofthe winners were the candidates of political parties. The research has shown that the multi-years incumbencywere favored outside the party, and – on the other hand – the political parties played a greater rolein the changes of the mayors of cities.

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