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Bulletin of Electoral Statistics and Public Opinion Research Data
Bulletin of Electoral Statistics and Public Opinion Research Data

Author(s): Andrew Arato, Sharon Cooley, Justyna Duriasz, Jan Gross, Barbara Heyns, Tibor Mezei, Jozef Pinior
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Sociology of Politics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Bulletin of electoral statistics; electoral law; Poland; 1993 elections; parliamentary elections; public opinion data; post-Communist successor parties; democratic parties;

Summary/Abstract: In this issue of the Bulletin we provide statistics for the September 19, 1993, elections in Poland, as well as selected findings from post-election polls of the electorate. We also include a brief commentary and public opinion data about the shaping of voter preferences and the likely outcome of the forthcoming elections in Hungary. The September elections in Poland resulted in a significant shift to the. left. An electoral coalition led by a post-Communist successor party to the PUWP, including among its leaders some of the most prominent personalities of the pre-1989 Jaruzelski regime, received a plurality of electoral votes. Its popular support was twice as large as that of the most attractive of the parties with roots in Solidarity-the Democratic Union. Second place was awarded by the electorate to yet another successor party of the Ancien Regime, the Peasant party. This result meant the return to power of an alliance of post-Communist parties. [...]

  • Issue Year: 08/1994
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 369-379
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English