Uczestnictwo i mobilizacja w wyborach parlamentarnych 2019 roku
Participation and Mobilization in the 2019 Parliamentary Election

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to explain the electoral mobilization and increased participation in the parliamentary elections held in Poland in autumn 2019. Voter turnout exceeded 60% for the first time in the history of post-communist Poland. The research questions and hypotheses focus on the increase in turnout itself, (growing) electoral stability and/or increasing mobilization, and the (macro and micro level) mechanisms that explain the observed phenomena. The empirical findings confirm (in large part) the hypotheses. The 2019 electoral turnout increased as a result of decreasing electoral volatility, and in effect of the extensive mobilization of the non-voters. Both phenomena were related to growing political polarization, increasing competitiveness of elections, and growing party identification of voters. In part, these processes were the product of several actors’ agency, and in part, the outcome of ‘structural’ phenomena unfolding beyond their will and control.

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