2004 European Parliament election in Poland

Elections to the European Parliament were held in Poland 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 Civic Platform. Second place was taken by the strongly anti-EU League of Polish Families.

European Parliament election in Poland, 2004
13 June 2004
54 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout20.87%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Donald Tusk Marek Kotlinowski Jarosław Kaczyński
Party PO LPR PiS
Alliance EPP ID AEN
Leader since 1 June 2003 21 April 2001 18 January 2003
Seats won 15 seats 10 seats 7 seats
Popular vote 1,467,775 969 689 771 858
Percentage 24.1% 15.92% 12.67%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Andrzej Lepper Krzysztof Janik Władysław Frasyniuk
Party SRP SLD UW
Alliance AEN / PES PES ALDE
Leader since 10 January 1992 6 March 2004 14 October 2001
Seats won 6 seats 5 4
Popular vote 656 782 569 311 446 549
Percentage 10.78% 9.35% 7.33%
  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Janusz Wojciechowski Marek Borowski
Party PSL SDPL
Alliance EPP PES
Leader since 16 March 2004 26 March 2004
Seats won 4 3
Popular vote 386 340 324 707
Percentage 6.34% 5.33%
Results

The radical populist Self-Defense of the Polish Republic, which some opinion polls had predicted would come second, came fourth after the Law and Justice party. The election results were a success for Social Democracy of Poland, which managed to cross the required 5% threshold, and the 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%)

 Summary of the results of Poland's 13 June 2004 election to the European Parliament
2004 • 2009 • 2014 • 2019
National party European party Votes % +/– Seats +/–
Civic Platform (PO) EPP 1,467,77524.10—
15 / 54
—
League of Polish Families (LPR) AEN 969,68915.92—
10 / 54
—
Law and Justice (PiS) AEN 771,85812.67—
7 / 54
—
Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SoRP) AEN + PES 656,78210.78—
6 / 54
—
Democratic Left Alliance – Labor Union (SLD–UP) PES 561,3119.35—
5 / 54
—
Freedom Union (UW) ALDE 446,5497.33—
4 / 54
—
People's Party (PSL) EPP 386,3406.34—
4 / 54
—
Social Democracy (SDPL) PES 324,7075.33—
3 / 54
—
Real Politics Union (UPR) 113,6751.87—0—
National Electoral Committee (NKWW) 94,8671.56—0—
Polish Initiative (IdP) 88,5651.45—0—
Others —
Valid votes 6,091,531 97.33
Blank and invalid votes 167,019 2.67
Totals 6,258,550 100.00 — 54 —
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout 29,986,109 20.87 —
Source:
  • 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 "OKO" (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.,

Opinion polls
Polling firm PO LPR PiS SRP SLD-UP UW PSL SDPL Others Lead
Election results 24.1% 15.9% 12.7% 10.8% 9.3% 7.3% 6.3% 5.3% 8.3% 8.2% over LPR
PBS 28% 15% 12% 14% 11% 5% 6% 4% 5% 13% over LPR
TNS OBOP 28.7% 15.1% 10.9% 14.4% 10.5% 5.3% 6.2% 4.1% 4.8% 13.6% over LPR
Exit polls
CBOS 31% 8% 14% 16% 10% 3% 4% 5% 9% 15% over SRP
PBS 30% 11% 11% 18% 8% 5% 7% 4% 6% 12% over SRP
TNS OBOP 27% 13% 6% 16% 6% 4% 4% – 24% 11% over SRP
Ipsos 27% 12.6% 16.5% 16.5% 4.6% 3.8% 3.4% 5% 10.6% 10.5% over SRP/PiS
Pentor 26% 11% 12% 23% 8% 3% 6% 6% 5% 3% over SRP
Primary election 21.1% 6.9% 8.4% 18.4% 11.3% 7.3% 3.9% 9% 13.7% 2.7% over SRP

Polish MEPs Members of European Parliament

Civic Platform

League of Polish Families

Law and Justice

Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland

Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union

Freedom Union
  • Bronisław Geremek, historian and politician, ex-minister of foreign affairs
  • Jan Kulakowski, journalist, ex Poland-EU negotiator
  • Janusz Onyszkiewicz, mathematician and politician, ex-minister of defence
  • Grazyna Staniszewska, politician, senator

Polish People's Party
  • Zbigniew Kuzmiuk, politician, chairman of PSL parliamentary caucus
  • Zdzisław Podkański, historian and politician, vice chairman of PSL, ex-vice minister of culture
  • Czesław Siekierski, agriculture economist, ex-vice minister of agriculture
  • Janusz Wojciechowski, lawyer and politician, chairman of PSL since March 2004

Social Democratic Party of Poland

Independent

See also

References
  • Obwieszczenie PKW z dnia 15 VI 2004 r., Dz.U. Nr 137, poz. 1460.
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