1930 Polish parliamentary election

1930 Polish parliamentary election

16 November 1930 (1930-11-16) (Sejm and Senate)

All 444 seats to the Sejm
Turnout74.8%
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Walery Sławek Joachim Bartoszewicz Mieczysław Niedziałkowski
Party BBWR National Party PPS
Leader since November 1927 October 1928 1930
(as chairman of PPS caucus)
Leader's seat 1 – Warsaw Senate - Kielce Area 9 - Płock
Last election 125 Did not exist
(28 as ZLN)
64
Seats won 249 63 23
(79 as Centrolew)
Seat change 124 25 41
Popular vote 5,292,725 1,443,165 590,820
Percentage 46.7% 12.7% 5.1%
(17.3% as Centrolew)

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Jan Dąbski Dmytro Levytsky Wincenty Witos
Party SCh UNDO PSL "Piast"
Leader since 1929 1925 December 1, 1918
Leader's seat State list - no. 7 51 - Lwów 84 - Tarnów
Last election 26 26 17
(28 as Catholic Bloc)
Seats won 18
(79 as Centrolew)
17
(21 as BUB)
15
(79 as Centrolew)
Seat change 8 9 2
Popular vote 472,656 449,033 401,758
Percentage 4.0%
(17.3% as Centrolew)
3.8% 3.4%
(17.3% as Centrolew)

  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Maksymilian Malinowski Antoni Ponikowski Karol Popiel
Party PSL "Wyzwolenie" PSChD NPR
Leader since 1925 1925 1929
Leader's seat 27 - Zamość State list - no. 19 none
Last election 40 16
(28 as Catholic Bloc)
14
Seats won 15
(79 as Centrolew)
14 8
(79 as Centrolew)
Seat change 25 2 6
Popular vote ca. 400,000 430,074 165,429
Percentage 3.4%
(17.3% as Centrolew)
3.8% 1.4%
(17.3% as Centrolew)

Results by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Kazimierz Bartel
BBWR

Elected Prime Minister

Walery Sławek
BBWR

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 16 November 1930, with Senate elections held a week later on 23 November. In what became known as the Brest elections (Polish: Wybory brzeskie), the pro-Sanation Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government took 47% of the vote and 249 of the 444 seats in Sejm and 77 of the 111 seats in the Senate. The elections are known as the least free elections in the Second Polish Republic due to the Brest trial controversy.