Elections to the European Parliament

European Parliament election, 2004

Elections to the European Parliament were held from 10 June 2004 to 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom...

were held in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 on 13 June 2004. 20.87% of eligible citizens voted; of these, 97.33% of the votes cast were valid. The elections resulted in a heavy defeat for the governing Alliance of the Democratic Left and Labor Union parties, although the very low turnout makes a direct comparison with national election results difficult. As expected the most successful party was the Citizens Platform. Second place was taken by the strongly anti-EU League of Polish Families

League of Polish Families

The League of Polish Families is a right-wing political party in Poland. It was represented in the Polish parliament, forming part of the cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński, until the latter dissolved in September 2007....

.

The radical populist

Populism

Populism can be defined as an ideology, political philosophy, or type of discourse. Generally, a common theme compares "the people" against "the elite", and urges social and political system changes. It can also be defined as a rhetorical style employed by members of various political or social...

 Self-Defense of the Polish Republic, which some opinion polls had predicted would come second, came fourth after the Law and Justice

Law and Justice

Law and Justice , abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wing, conservative political party in Poland. With 147 seats in the Sejm and 38 in the Senate, it is the second-largest party in the Polish parliament....

 party. The election results were a success for Social Democracy of Poland, which managed to cross the required 5% threshold, and the Freedom Union

Freedom Union

Freedom Union can refer to one of the following liberal parties:*For Czech republic, see Freedom Union *For the Faroe Islands, see Freedom Union *For Poland, see Freedom Union...

, which got over twice the expected percentage of votes.

Results

Registered voters: 29,986,109

Votes cast: 6,265,062 (20.9%)

Invalid votes: 173,531 (2.8%)

Valid votes: 6,091,531 (97.2%)

• 9. Union of Real Politics (Unia Polityki Realnej) - 1,87 proc.,
• 10. National Electoral Committee of Electors (Narodowy Komitet Wyborczy Wyborców) - 1,56 proc.,
• 11. Initiative for Poland (Inicjatywa dla Polski) - 1,45 proc.,
• 12. Country Pensioners Party - People's Democratic Party (Krajowa Partia Emerytów i Rencistów) - 0,8 proc.,
• 13. Confederation Movement for Unemployed Protection (Konfederacja Ruch Obrony Bezrobotnych) - 0,61 proc.,
• 14. All-Poland Citizen Committee "EYE" (Ogólnopolski Komitet Obywatelski "OKO") - 0,58 proc.,
• 15. Polish Labour Party (Polska Partia Pracy) - 0,54 proc.,
• 16. Anti-Clerical Party of Progress "Reason" (Antyklerykalna Partia Postępu "Racja") - 0,3 proc.,
• 17. Democratic Party of the Left (Demokratyczna Partia Lewicy) - 0,09 proc.
• 18. "Together for Future" ("Razem dla Przyszłości") - 0,05 proc.,
• 19. National Renaissance of Poland (Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski) - 0,04 proc.,
• 20. Polish National Party (Polska Partia Narodowa) - 0,04 proc.,
• 21. Greens 2004 (Zieloni 2004) - 0,27 proc.,

Platforma Obywatelska

Civic Platform

Civic Platform , abbreviated to PO, is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Poland. It has been the major coalition partner in Poland's government since the 2007 general election, with party leader Donald Tusk as Prime Minister of Poland and Bronisław Komorowski as President...

 

• Jerzy Buzek
  Jerzy Buzek
  Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...
  
  , ex-prime minister, professor of technical sciences
• Zdzisław Chmielewski, historian, rector of Szczecin University
• Małgorzata Handzlik, publisher and journalist
• Stanisław Jałowiecki, sociologist and politician
• Filip Kaczmarek
  Filip Kaczmarek
  Filip Andrzej Kaczmarek is a Polish politician andMember of the European Parliament-Private life:Filip Kaczmarek was born in Poznań, graduated from the History Department at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and in 2005 earned a PhD in Political Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University...
  
  , historian and journalist
• Bogdan Klich
  Bogdan Klich
  Bogdan Adam Klich was a Polish politician and Minister of National Defence of Poland. Bogdan Klich was interned in 1981 during the martial law set by the communist regime...
  
  , expert on international politics
• Barbara Kudrycka
  Barbara Kudrycka
  Barbara Kudrycka is a professor of administrative law and public administration science and a Polish politician who has served as the Minister of Science and Higher Education in the cabinet of Donald Tusk since 2007....
  
  , professor of law
• Janusz Lewandowski
  Janusz Lewandowski
  Janusz Antoni Lewandowski is a Polish politician and economist belonging to the Gdansk liberals group, and a member of the Europea n Parliament , Chairman of the Committee on Budgets...
  
  , economist, ex-minister of privatisation
• Jan Olbrycht
  Jan Olbrycht
  Jan Olbrycht is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodeship with the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party and...
  
  , politician, ex-mayor of Cieszyn
  Cieszyn
  Cieszyn is a border-town and the seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It has 36,109 inhabitants . Cieszyn lies on the Olza River, a tributary of the Oder river, opposite Český Těšín....
  
  
• Jacek Saryusz-Wolski
  Jacek Saryusz-Wolski
  Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski is a Polish diplomat, politician and a MEP: member of the European Parliament...
  
  , economist, former Poland-EU negotiator
• Jacek Protasiewicz
  Jacek Protasiewicz
  Jacek Protasiewicz is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS & OP with the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.Protasiewicz is a substitute for the Committee on...
  
  , philologist and politician
• Bogusław Sonik, lawyer and politician
• Zbigniew Zaleski
  Zbigniew Zaleski
  Zbigniew Zaleski is a Polish politician andMember of the European Parliament for the Lublin Voivodshipwith the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party and sits on...
  
  , professor of psychology
• Tadeusz Zwiefka
  Tadeusz Zwiefka
  Tadeusz Antoni Zwiefka is a Polish journalist and politician. Since 2004, member of the European Parliament.- Biography :Tadeusz Zwiefka comes from Tuchola in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship, he worked in Szczecin and Warsaw, and today he lives in Poznań....
  
  , journalist

Liga Polskich Rodzin

League of Polish Families

The League of Polish Families is a right-wing political party in Poland. It was represented in the Polish parliament, forming part of the cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński, until the latter dissolved in September 2007....

 

• Filip Adwent
  Filip Adwent
  Filip Adwent was a Polish politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Pomeranian Voivodship....
  
  , physician and author
• Sylwester Chruszcz
  Sylwester Chruszcz
  Sylwester Arkadiusz Chruszcz is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lower Silesian Voivodship and Opole Voivodship with the Naprzód Polsko, part of the Union for Europe of the Nations and is member of the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and...
  
  , architect and politician
• Maciej Giertych
  Maciej Giertych
  Maciej Marian Giertych is a Polish dendrologist and social conservative politician of the League of Polish Families . He favours state intervention in the economy. He was a member of the Sejm and a Polish member of the European Parliament...
  
  , politician and publicist
• Dariusz Grabowski
  Dariusz Grabowski
  Dariusz Maciej Grabowski is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Masovian Voivodship with the Liga Polskich Rodzin, part of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.Grabowski is a substitute member on the...
  
  , economist, politician and businessman
• Urszula Krupa
  Urszula Krupa
  Urszula Krupa is a Polish politician andMember of the European Parliament for the Łódź Voivodeshipwith the Liga Polskich Rodzin, part of the Independence and Democracy and sits on...
  
  , doctor of medicine, journalist
• Mirosław Piotrowski, professor of history
• Bogdan Pek
  Bogdan Pek
  Bogdan Pęk is a Polish politician andMember of the European Parliamentfor the MP & SWwith the Liga Polskich Rodzin, part of the Independence and Democracy and sits onthe European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs....
  
  , zootechnologist and politician
• Bogusław Rogalski, historian, farmer and political activist
• Witold Tomczak
  Witold Tomczak
  Witold Tomczak is a right-wing Polish politician, currently a member of the European Parliament.Before his political career, Tomczak worked as a physician He graduated from the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice in 1987 and specialized in general medicine...
  
  , physician and politician
• Wojciech Wierzejski
  Wojciech Wierzejski
  Wojciech Wierzejski is a Polish politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Warsaw with the Liga Polskich Rodzin, part of the Independence and Democracy group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs....
  
  , politician and sociologist

Prawo i Sprawiedliwość

Law and Justice

Law and Justice , abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wing, conservative political party in Poland. With 147 seats in the Sejm and 38 in the Senate, it is the second-largest party in the Polish parliament....

 

• Adam Bielan
  Adam Bielan
  Adam Jerzy Bielan is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie with Poland Comes First. He is Vice-Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists political grouping....
  
  , politician
• Anna Fotyga
  Anna Fotyga
  Anna Elżbieta Fotyga née Kawecka is a Polish economist, politician, former Member of the European Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, in the successive cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński...
  
  , international trade expert, vice-mayor of Gdańsk
  Gdansk
  Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
  
   (2002-2004)
• Mieczysław Janowski, doctor of technical sciences, local activist
• Michał Kamiński, journalist and politician
• Marcin Libicki
  Marcin Libicki
  Marcin Libicki is a Polish politician, former member of the Polish parliament , elected for the Poznań constituency...
  
  , arts historian and politician
• Wojciech Roszkowski
  Wojciech Roszkowski
  Wojciech Roszkowski is a Polish economist and politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodeship with the Law and Justice, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.Roszkowski is a substitute for the Committee on...
  
  , historian, professor of politics
• Konrad Szymanski
  Konrad Szymanski
  Konrad Szymański is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS & OP with the Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender...
  
  , lawyer, journalist and politician

Samoobrona

Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland

Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland , abbreviated to SRP, is an agrarian political party and trade union in Poland led by Andrzej Lepper. Its platform combines left-wing populist economic policies with religious conservative social policies....

 

• Marek Czarnecki
  Marek Czarnecki
  Marek Aleksander Czarnecki is a Polish politician andMember of the European Parliament for the Masovian Voivodshipwith the Self-Defense,and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament....
  
  , lawyer, journalist and politician
• Ryszard Czarnecki
  Ryszard Czarnecki
  Richard Henry Czarnecki is a British-born Polish politician who is a Member of the European Parliament for the Lower Silesian and Opole constituency from Law and Justice...
  
  , historian, journalist and politician
• Bogdan Golik
  Bogdan Golik
  Bogdan Golik is a Polish politician and FormerMember of the European Parliament for LDwith the Self-Defense and sits on theEuropean Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development....
  
  , animal doctor and business adviser
• Wiesław Kuc, economist and agriculture expert
• Jan Masiel
  Jan Masiel
  Jan Tadeusz Masiel is a Polish politician andMember of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodshipwith the Self-Defense,and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament....
  
  , psychiatrist and business adviser
• Leopold Rutowicz
  Leopold Rutowicz
  Leopold Józef Rutowicz is a Polish politician andMember of the European Parliamentfor the MP & SWwith the Self-Defense,and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament....
  
  , economist and businessman

Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej - Unia Pracy

Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union

Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union is an electoral committee and a coalition of two Polish centre-left political parties: Democratic Left Alliance and Labour Union. At the national level, the alliance arose at the time of the 2001 parliamentary elections and continued through the 2004 elections...

 

• Adam Gierek
  Adam Gierek
  Adam Gierek is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy...
  
  , politician, son of Edward Gierek
  Edward Gierek
  Edward Gierek was a Polish communist politician.He was born in Porąbka, outside of Sosnowiec. He lost his father to a mining accident in a pit at the age of four. His mother married again and emigrated to northern France, where he was raised. He joined the French Communist Party in 1931 and was...
  
  , communist leader of Poland in the 1970s
• Lidia Geringer d'Oedenberg, economist and journalist
• Bogusław Liberadzki, economist, ex-minister of transport
• Marek Siwiec
  Marek Siwiec
  Marek Maciej Siwiec is a Polish politician and since 2004 Member of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. In the European elections of...
  
  , journalist, politician, president's advisor
• Andrzej Szejna
  Andrzej Szejna
  Andrzej Jan Szejna is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship & Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs.Szejna...
  
  , economist, politician

Unia Wolności

Freedom Union (Poland)

The Freedom Union was a liberal democratic party in Poland. It was founded on March 20, 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union and the Liberal Democratic Congress . Both of these parties had roots in the Solidarity trade union movement. It represented European democratic and liberal...

 

• Bronisław Geremek, historian and politician, ex-minister of foreign affairs
• Jan Kulakowski
  Jan Kulakowski
  Jan Jerzy Kułakowski – was a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship with the Unia Wolnosci, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.Kułakowski was a...
  
  , journalist, ex Poland-EU negotiator
• Janusz Onyszkiewicz
  Janusz Onyszkiewicz
  Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz is a Polish mathematician, alpinist, politician and was a vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee from January 2007 until mid-2009.-Biographical note:...
  
  , mathematician and politician, ex-minister of defence
• Grazyna Staniszewska
  Grazyna Staniszewska
  Grażyna Ewa Staniszewska is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodeship with the Unia Wolności, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.Staniszewska is a substitute...
  
  , politician, senator

Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe 

• Zbigniew Kuzmiuk
  Zbigniew Kuzmiuk
  Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Masovian Voivodship with the Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe,...
  
  , politician, chairman of PSL parliamentary caucus
• Zdzisław Podkański, historian and politician, vicechairman of PSL, ex-viceminister of culture
• Czesław Siekierski, agriculture aconomist, ex-viceminister of agriculture
• Janusz Wojciechowski
  Janusz Wojciechowski
  Janusz Wojciechowski is a Polish politician andMember of the European Parliament, elected from the Lodz Voivodship...
  
  , lawyer and politician, chairman of PSL since March 2004

Socjaldemokracja Polska

Social Democratic Party of Poland

The Social Democracy of Poland is a social democratic political party in Poland.-Foundation:The party was founded in April 2004 as a splinter group from the postcommunist Democratic Left Alliance...

 

• Genowefa Grabowska
  Genowefa Grabowska
  Genowefa Grabowska is a Polish politician andMember of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodshipwith the Socjaldemokracja Polska,part of the Socialist Group and sits on...
  
  , professor of international law, senator
• Józef Pinior
  Józef Pinior
  Józef Pinior is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS & OP with the Socjaldemokracja Polska, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development....
  
  , lawyer, economist and politician
• Dariusz Rosati
  Dariusz Rosati
  Dariusz Kajetan Rosati is a Polish professor of economics and a politician who is a member of the European Parliament .-Biography:...
  
  , professor of economics, ex-minister of foreign affairs

External links

• European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)