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Elections in Poland

There were also elections in the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939), and the People's Republic of Poland, although most of the latter are considered to have been rigged.

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The 1997 Constitution and the changed administrative divisions of 1999 required a revision of the electoral system, which was passed in April 2001.

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Poland has a long history of elections dating several centuries, including the elections to Sejm from 1182 and the elective monarchy from 1569 to 1795.

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The Senate (Senat) has 100 members elected for a four-year term via the first past-the-post system, with 100 single member constituencies.

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The remaining one-third of the seats in the Sejm and all those in the Senate were freely contested; the majority of these were by candidates supported by Solidarity.

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Great Sejm – or the Four-Years Sejm of 1798–1792, which voted for the May Constitution of Poland;

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He abdicated in 1795 after the partitions of Poland ended the existence of sovereign state of Poland for 123 years.

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