WYBORY DO SEJMIKU WOJEWÓDZTWA ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIEGO W 2010 ROKU

The year 2010 in Poland saw the elections to the local self-government authorities. The voters were deciding on their representatives on the voivodship level for the fourth time ever since the 1998 reform was introduced. This article concerns the elections to the West Pomeranian Regional Assembly. I...

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Published inActa politica polonica no. 25; pp. 81 - 123
Main Author Siedziako, Michał
Format Journal Article
LanguagePolish
Published Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego 2012
Szczecin University Press
Subjects
Electoral systems
electoral campaigns
selfgornment elections in Poland
political parties
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Summary:The year 2010 in Poland saw the elections to the local self-government authorities. The voters were deciding on their representatives on the voivodship level for the fourth time ever since the 1998 reform was introduced. This article concerns the elections to the West Pomeranian Regional Assembly. It has been divided into six parts describing basic rules of the electoral system, the candidates, their programs and the campaigns of the four major political forces in the country – Civic Platform, Law and Justice, Democratic Left Alliance and Polish Peasants’ Party. Besides, the results at the ballot box are discussed later in the essay. The 2010 elections to the West Pomeranian Regional Assembly have not brought in any significant political changes. The power was upheld by the Civic Platform – Polish Peasants’ Party coalition, although the former have enjoyed a greater social trust gaining enough votes to rule on their own. Such an outcome has only proven the northwest of Poland to be one of the Civic Platform’s bulwarks.
ISSN:2451-0432