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Polish parliamentary election in 1991 to Sejm and Senate of Poland was held on October 27th. In Sejm elections, 27,517,280 citizens were eglible to vote, 11,887,949 (43,2%) of them cast their votes, 11,218,602 (94,4%) of those were counted as valid. In Senate elections, 43,2% of citizens cast their votes, 96,5% were valid. It was the first entirely free election in modern Poland. No political party obtained a decisive majority and a coalition government had to be formed. 460 members of parliament (poseł) were elected; 391 from 6980 candidates from 37 regional list of candidates and 69 from country-wide list of candidates.

Elections were supervised by National Electoral Commission (Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza). 37 regional (okręgowe) commissions were formed, and 22,341 district (obwodowe), staffed by 197,389 citizens.

Senat election

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• Obwieszczenie Państwowej Komisji Wyborczej z dn. 31 X 1991 r., Monitor Polski. Nr 41, poz. 288
• Obwieszczenie PKW z dn. 30 X 1991 r., M.P. Nr 41, poz. 287pl:Wybory parlamentarne w Polsce 1991