Editing Polish United Workers' Party (section)

== Electoral history ==

===Sejm elections===
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;"
!Election
!Party leader
!Votes
!%
!Seats
!{{nowrap|+/−}}
!Position
|-
![[1952 Polish parliamentary election|1952]]
|[[Bolesław Bierut]]
| colspan="2" rowspan="8" |{{Small|as part of [[Front of National Unity|FJN – PZPR]]}}
|{{Composition bar|273|425|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
|''New''
|1st
|-
![[1957 Polish parliamentary election|1957]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Władysław Gomułka]]
|{{Composition bar|239|459|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
|{{nowrap|{{decrease}} 34}}
|{{nowrap|{{steady}} 1st}}
|-
![[1961 Polish parliamentary election|1961]]
|{{Composition bar|256|460|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
|{{nowrap|{{increase}} 17}}
|{{nowrap|{{steady}} 1st}}
|-
![[1965 Polish parliamentary election|1965]]
|{{Composition bar|255|460|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
|{{nowrap|{{decrease}} 1}}
|{{nowrap|{{steady}} 1st}}
|-
![[1969 Polish parliamentary election|1969]]
|{{Composition bar|255|460|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
|{{steady}}
|{{nowrap|{{steady}} 1st}}
|-
![[1972 Polish parliamentary election|1972]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Edward Gierek]]
|{{Composition bar|255|460|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
|{{steady}}
|{{nowrap|{{steady}} 1st}}
|-
![[1976 Polish parliamentary election|1976]]
|{{Composition bar|261|460|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
|{{nowrap|{{increase}} 6}}
|{{nowrap|{{steady}} 1st}}
|-
![[1980 Polish parliamentary election|1980]]
|{{Composition bar|261|460|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
|{{steady}}
|{{nowrap|{{steady}} 1st}}
|-
![[1985 Polish parliamentary election|1985]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Wojciech Jaruzelski]]
| colspan="2" |{{Small|as part of [[Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth|PRON]]}}
|{{Composition bar|245|460|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
|{{nowrap|{{decrease}} 16}}
|{{nowrap|{{steady}} 1st}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[1989 Polish parliamentary election|1989]]
|22,734,348 (constituencies){{efn|The electoral law for the 1989 election reserved constituency seats for each of the [[Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth|PRON]]'s individual member parties separately, and for independent and opposition party candidates as a whole; PZPR candidates could only run in the seats reserved for PZPR. This number of votes reflects the total number of votes cast in PZPR's reserved seats.}}
|N/A
| rowspan="2" |{{Composition bar|173|460|hex={{party color|Polish United Workers' Party}}}}
| rowspan="2" |{{nowrap|{{decrease}} 72}}
| rowspan="2" |{{nowrap|{{steady}} 1st}}
|-
|132,845,385 (in the national list){{efn|The electoral law for the 1989 election provided for a [[National electoral list (Poland)|national list]] of prominent [[Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth|PRON]] figures; voters voted on approving or rejecting each candidate on the national list separately. Of the 35 national list candidates, 17 were nominated by PZPR.}}
|45.82%{{efn|17,053,171 votes were cast in the election of National list members; since voters voted on each candidate separately, and there were 17 PZPR candidates on the national list, 289,903,907 marks the maximum amount of approval votes PZPR's national list candidates could have received.}}
|}