Tomorrow (Sunday, October 13th) Poles will head to the polls, casting their votes in national elections. Around ~30M people are eligible to vote (citizens above 18 years of age), but turnout will probably be traditionally low, although is expected to end slightly above the average - somewhere between 55 and 60%.
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Electoral system
Polish parliament consists of two houses, each elected according to different systems. Previous elections happened
four years ago.
460 seats of
Sejm (lower house, which is actually one which matters) are chosen in
proportional representation, using
d'Hondt method, with
5% national threshold (there's also 8% threshold for coalitions, but only KO starts as that, and has above 20% in polls). There are 41 constituencies, each sending from 7 to 20 MPs.
100 seats of
Senat (upper house, which has limited power - it can be compared to "speed limiter" in a car) are elected in 100 single-winner
FPTP districts.
Polls will open at 7:00, and close at
21:00. Campaign silence is ordained throughout whole Saturday and Sunday until the 21:00, so exit polls will be revealed only after that hour. We can expect only turnout data during the day. Official results will be available probably late Monday. Official website of PKW (electoral authority) is available
HERE.
Contenders
There are only
five (record low) electoral committees registered in all constituencies. Everything else doesn't matter and won't get any seat, except
German Minority, which is exempt of threshold, and will probably gain 1 seat in the only constituency they registered a list.
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