2006 Polish local elections

2006 Polish regional assembly election
12 November 2006 (first round)
26 November 2006 (second round)
561 seats to regional assemblies
Turnout45.99%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Donald Tusk Jarosław Kaczyński Waldemar Pawlak
Party PO PiS PSL
Leader since 1 June 2003 18 January 2003 29 January 2005
Last election 13.2%, 84 seats 14.4%, 89 seats 10.8%, 58 seats
Seats before 84 89 58
Seats won 186 170 83
Seat change 102 81 25
Percentage 27.18% 25.08% 13.24%
Swing 15.07% 12.97% 2.43%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Wojciech Olejniczak Andrzej Lepper Roman Giertych
Party LiD SRP LPR
Leader since 29 May 2005 10 January 1992 11 March 2006
Last election 24.6%, 189 seats 15.9%, 101 seats 14.3%, 92 seats
Seats before 189 101 92
Seats won 66 37 11
Seat change 123 64 81
Percentage 14.25% 5.64% 4.74%
Swing 10.40% 10.34% 9.62%
Result of the voivodeship sejmik elections

The 2006 Polish local elections were held in two parts. with its first round on 12 November and the second on 26 November 2006. In the election's first round, voters chose 39,944 gmina councillors, 6,284 powiat councillors and 561 deputies to provincial voivodeship sejmiks. Additionally, 2,460 city and town mayors, borough leaders and other officials were decided by direct or runoff elections in the second round. The elections were seen as a test to the government of Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, whose coalition between his own Law and Justice party and its junior coalition partners, the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland and the League of Polish Families, had undergone a severe crisis two months prior.

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