1928 Polish parliamentary election

1928 Polish parliamentary election

4 March 1928 (1928-03-04) (Sejm)
11 March 1928 (1928-03-11) (Senat)

All 444 seats in the Sejm
Turnout78.5%
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Walery Sławek Zygmunt Marek Yitzhak Gruenbaum
Party BBWR PPS BMN
Leader since November 1927 2 February 1926
(as chairman of PPS caucus)
1922
Leader's seat 1 – Warsaw 44 - Nowy Sącz 1 - Warsaw
Last election Did not exist 41 66
Seats won 125 64 55
Seat change 125 23 11
Popular vote 2,399,438 1,482,097 1,439,568
Percentage 21.0% 13.0% 12.6%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Maksymilian Malinowski Stanisław Kozicki Wincenty Witos
Józef Chaciński
Party PSL "Wyzwolenie" BKN PBK
Leader since 1925 1923 1918 (Witos)
1927 (Chaciński)
Leader's seat 27 - Zamość Senate - Lublin area 84 - Tarnów (Witos)
24 l.p. (Chaciński)
Last election 49 98
(163 asChjena)
Did not exist
Seats won 40 38 34
Seat change 9 60 34
Popular vote 834,710 925,570 770,891
Percentage 7.3% 8.1% 6.8%

Results parliamentary election by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Józef Piłsudski
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Kazimierz Bartel
BBWR

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 4 March 1928, with Senate elections held a week later on 11 March. The Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government, a coalition of the Sanation faction - won the highest number of seats in the Sejm (125 out of 444) and 48 out of 111 in the Senate–in both cases, short of a majority. Unlike latter elections during the Sanation era, opposition parties were allowed to campaign with only a few hindrances, and gained a significant number of seats. The 1928 election is often considered the last fully free election in the Second Polish Republic.