Country: | Polish People's Republic |
Flag Year: | 1980 |
Type: | legislative |
Previous Election: | 1976 Polish parliamentary election |
Previous Year: | 1976 |
Next Election: | 1985 Polish parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1985 |
Seats For Election: | All 460 seats in the Sejm |
Leader1: | Edward Gierek |
Party1: | Polish United Workers' Party |
Last Election1: | 261 seats |
Seats1: | 261 |
Leader2: | Stanisław Gucwa |
Party2: | United People's Party (Poland) |
Last Election2: | 113 seats |
Seats2: | 113 |
Party3: | Democratic Party (Poland) |
Last Election3: | 37 seats |
Seats3: | 37 |
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 23 March 1980.[1] The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1980 election exactly duplicated the 1976 elections, which were only marginally different from those of the preceding years.
As the other parties and "independents" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total.[2] [3]