Lower Silesian and Opole (European Parliament constituency)

Lower Silesian and Opole
European Parliament constituency
Location among the current constituencies
12th constituency in Poland
Member state	Poland
Created	2004
MEPs	4 (since 2019) 6 (2014-2019) 5 (2009-2014) 7 (2004-2009)
Sources
[1]

Lower Silesian and Opole (Polish: dolnośląskie i opolskie) is a constituency of the European Parliament. It consists of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship and Opole Voivodeship.

Nomenclature

The relevant Polish legislation ("The Act of 23 January 2004 on Elections to the European Parliament"^[1]) establishing the constituencies does not give the constituencies formal names. Instead, each constituency has a number, territorial description, and location of the Constituency Electoral Commission. The 2004 Polish National Election Commission^[2] and the 2004 European Parliament Election website^[3] uses the territorial description when referring to the constituency, not the electoral commission location.

Members of the European Parliament

Election	MEP (party)		MEP (party)		MEP (party)		MEP (party)		MEP (party)		MEP (party)		MEP (party)
2004		Jacek Protasiewicz (PO)		Sylwester Chruszcz (LPR)		Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg (SLD-UP)		Konrad Szymański (PiS)		Stanisław Jałowiecki (PO)		Ryszard Czarnecki (SRP)		Józef Pinior (SdPL)
2009				Piotr Borys (PO)				Ryszard Legutko (PiS)		Danuta Jazłowiecka (PO)	5 seats 2009-2014
2014		Bogdan Zdrojewski (PO)		Dawid Jackiewicz (PiS)				Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski (PiS)				Robert Iwaszkiewicz (KNP)	6 seats 2014-2019
2015				Sławomir Kłosowski (PiS)
2019		Janina Ochojska (KE)		Beata Kempa (PiS)		Jarosław Duda (KE)		Anna Zalewska (PiS)	4 seats since 2019

Election results

2004

2004 European Parliament election

Electoral committee		Votes	%	Seats
	Civic Platform	161,564	27.31	2
	League of Polish Families	84,112	14.22	1
	Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union	71,848	12.15	1
	Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland	69,720	11.79	1
	Law and Justice	55,577	9.40	1
	Freedom Union	31,780	5.37	–
	Social Democracy of Poland	29,223	4.94	1
	Real Politics Union	24,183	4.09	–
	Polish People's Party	16,877	2.85	–
	Initiative for Poland	13,349	2.26	–
	Reason Party	7,448	1.26	–
	National Electoral Committee	7,211	1.22	–
	Greens 2004	4,837	0.82	–
	KPEiR–PLD	4,276	0.72	–
	Polish Labour Party	3,349	0.57	–
	All-Poland Civic Coalition	2,774	0.47	–
	Konfederacja Ruch Obrony Bezrobotnych	1,909	0.32	–
	National Revival of Poland	1,456	0.25	–
Total		591,493	100.00	7
Valid votes		591,493	97.38
Invalid/blank votes		15,928	2.62
Total votes		607,421	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,148,563	19.29
Source: PKW

2009

2009 European Parliament election

Electoral committee		Votes	%	Seats
	Civic Platform	347,617	49.04	3
	Law and Justice	163,197	23.02	1
	Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union	93,172	13.14	1
	Polish People's Party	41,975	5.92	–
	Agreement for the Future – CenterLeft	19,387	2.74	–
	Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland	11,771	1.66	–
	Right Wing of the Republic	8,736	1.23	–
	Real Politics Union	8,422	1.19	–
	Libertas Poland	8,266	1.17	–
	Polish Labour Party	6,282	0.89	–
Total		708,825	100.00	5
Valid votes		708,825	98.20
Invalid/blank votes		13,029	1.80
Total votes		721,854	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,170,270	22.77
Source: National Electoral Commission[4]

2014

2014 European Parliament election

Electoral committee		Votes	%	Seats
	Civic Platform	252,513	38.14	2
	Law and Justice	179,432	27.10	2
	Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union	78,557	11.87	1
	Congress of the New Right	47,615	7.19	1
	United Poland	30,312	4.58	–
	Polish People's Party	28,087	4.24	–
	Europa Plus—Your Movement	20,896	3.16	–
	Poland Together	16,369	2.47	–
	National Movement	8,285	1.25	–
Total		662,066	100.00	6
Valid votes		662,066	96.78
Invalid/blank votes		22,017	3.22
Total votes		684,083	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,147,531	21.73
Source: National Electoral Commission[5]

2019

2019 European Parliament election

Electoral committee		Votes	%	Seats
	European Coalition	574,397	43.87	2
	Law and Justice	506,921	38.72	2
	Spring	88,515	6.76	–
	Confederation	65,208	4.98	–
	Kukiz'15	56,807	4.34	–
	Left Together	17,437	1.33	–
Total		1,309,285	100.00	4
Valid votes		1,309,285	99.22
Invalid/blank votes		10,265	0.78
Total votes		1,319,550	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,051,668	43.24
Source: National Electoral Commission[6][7]

References

1. The Act of 23 January 2004 on Elections to the European Parliament Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2. Polish National Election Commission 2004
3. European Parliament Election website 2004
4. "Voting Results - Wrocław, okr. 12". pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
5. "Wyniki głosowania w podziale na komitety wyborcze". pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
6. "Voting results - Constituency no. 12 [Wrocław]". pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
7. "Turnout - Constituency no. 12 [Wrocław]". pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 25 December 2023.

External links

• European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)