1922 Polish parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 5 November 1922, with Senate elections held a week later on 12 November. The elections were governed by the March Constitution of Poland, and saw the Christian Union of National Unity coalition emerge as the largest bloc in the Sejm with 163 of the 444 seats.

5 November 1922 (1922-11-05) (Sejm)
12 November 1922 (1922-11-12) (Senat)

All 444 seats in the Sejm

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Stanisław Głąbiński	Yitzhak Gruenbaum	Wincenty Witos
Party	ChZJN	BMN	PSL "Piast"
Leader since	November 1920	1922	1 December 1918
Leader's seat	50 – Lwów	1 - Warszawa	84 - Tarnów
Last election	140	–	46
Seats won	163	66	70
Seat change	23	New	24
Popular vote	2,551,582	1,398,250	1,153,397
Percentage	29.1%	16.0%	13.2%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Stanisław Thugutt	Ignacy Daszyński	Jan Stanisław Jankowski
Party	PSL "Wyzwolenie"	PPS	NPR
Leader since	1921	1921	1920
Leader's seat	15 - Konin	42 - Kraków county	none
Last election	59	35	32
Seats won	49	41	18
Seat change	10	6	14
Popular vote	963,385	906,537	473,676
Percentage	11.0%	10.3%	5.4%

Winning party by electoral districts

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The resulting coalitions were unstable, and the situation - difficult from the start, with assassination of Polish president Gabriel Narutowicz in December shortly after the elections - culminated in 1926 with the May Coup.

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