All Poland elections

1930 Polish Parliamentary Election

The Brest election

23 November 1930 (Senate) · The Second Republic · 444 seats, 56 for a majority

Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 16 November 1930, with Senate elections held a week later on 23 November. In what became known as the Brest elections (Polish: Wybory brzeskie), the pro-Sanation Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government took 47% of the vote and 249 of the 444 seats in Sejm and 77 of the 111 seats in the Senate.

Held with opposition leaders imprisoned in the Brest fortress and the state apparatus mobilised for the government list.

Prime Minister before

Prime Minister (continued)

Largest force

BBWR

249 of 444 seats

Turnout

63.4%

The result

Share of the Sejm
BBWRWalery Sławek249+124
5 292 72546.7%+25.7
Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government77+29
3 715 27354.7%
UBBWDmytro Levytsky21
725 9846.4%
PBKAntoni Ponikowski14
430 0743.8%
Centrolew13
882 63613.0%
National List12+3
882 21513.0%
NBWEugen Naumann5
309 7132.7%
Ukrainian and Belarusian Electoral Bloc4+2
434 0426.4%
German Electoral Bloc3+18
236 4713.5%
People's Catholic Bloc2+4
160 4442.4%

44 further seats went to parties and independents outside the main contenders listed above.