Editing Elections in Poland (section)

====1989 parliamentary elections====
{{main|1989 Polish legislative election}}{{see also|Contract Sejm}}

1989 Parliamentary Election: the [[Polish Round Table Agreement]] produced a partly open parliamentary election. The June election produced a [[Sejm]] (lower house), in which one-third of the seats went to communists and one-third went to the two parties which had hitherto been their coalition partners. The remaining one-third of the seats in the Sejm and all those in the [[Senate of Poland|Senate]] were freely contested; the majority of these were by candidates supported by [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]]. Jaruzelski was elected by the Sejm as [[President of Poland]].

The [[1990 Polish local elections|May 1990 local elections]] were entirely free. Candidates supported by Solidarity's Citizens' Committees won most of the elections they contested, although voter turnout was only a little over 40%. The cabinet was reshuffled in July 1990; the national defence and interior affairs ministers (hold-overs from the previous communist government) were among those replaced.