Legislative Sejm (Polish: Sejm Ustawodawczy) was the first national parliament (Sejm) of the newly created Polish People's Republic. It was elected in the 1947 Polish parliamentary election, the first since World War II. The first Legislative Sejm was formed in the aftermath of World War I on the territories of the newly formed Second Polish Republic.
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👉 Legislative Sejm (1947-1952) in the context of 1947 Polish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 19 January 1947, the first since World War II. According to the official results, the Democratic Bloc (Blok Demokratyczny), dominated by the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and also including the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), People's Party (SL), Democratic Party (SD), and non-partisan candidates officially received 80% of the vote and 394 of the 444 seats in the Legislative Sejm. The largest opposition party, the Polish People's Party, was officially credited with 28 seats; however, the elections were characterized by violence; anti-Communist opposition candidates and activists were persecuted by the Volunteer Reserve Militia (ORMO).
The elections were heavily manipulated, and the opposition claimed that it would have won in a landslide had the election been conducted in a fair manner. The election gave the Soviets, as well as the Communist-dominated Polish satellite government, enough legitimacy to claim that Poland was "free and democratic", thus allowing Poland to sign the charter of the United Nations.