Polish Politics and Elections

[H. Ross Peron]

Detailed maps:

https://wbdata.pl/wyniki-wyborow-do-sejmu-2019-na-mapach/

Where was the municipality/district where PiS was the weakest since there apparently is one where they won little over 18% of the vote?

[H. Ross Peron]

Detailed maps:

https://wbdata.pl/wyniki-wyborow-do-sejmu-2019-na-mapach/

Where was the municipality/district where PiS was the weakest since there apparently is one where they won little over 18% of the vote?

https://wybory.gov.pl/sejmsenat2019/pl/wyniki/sejm/gm/240303

According to Wikipedia:

 It is the only town in Poland[citation needed] with a majority Protestant population (as of 2006 roughly two third of the population,[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82a

Thanks for looking it up. It's such an incredible and fascinating anomaly, especially for a country that's portrayed as so extremely homogeneous like Poland.

[H. Ross Peron]

What will be the biggest city that PiS will win in a roughly 50-50 result?

[H. Ross Peron]

Map seems to be down but there's a very good interactive map here: https://biqdata.wyborcza.pl/biqdata/7,159116,26124392,wynik-wyborow-prezydenckich-duda-czy-trzaskowski-sprawdz.html

[H. Ross Peron]

From a quick look at the results at county level, it seems that Poland's political divide is shifting from East-West to Rural-Urban. Duda is performing far better in the villages in the west even winning a few he did not in 2015 while performing worse in the medium to larger cities, narrowly losing Lublin where he won in 2015.

Rather fascinating that Duda has only won with six provinces (and hardly the most populous ones at that) and without winning any of the major cities.

[H. Ross Peron]

Restricting "ritual slaughter" seems directed at Muslims and singles out Jews as well, though I guess its fine provided domestic production of such meat is allowed.

[H. Ross Peron]

The difference in the diaspora vote between other European countries (inc. GB o/c) and Canada especially is hilarious.

I've only just now tuned in to this election (yes, yes, I know). Can you elaborate?

UK: KO 49.0, PiS 14.3, TD 12.4, NL 12.1, K 9.4
Canada: PiS 47.1, KO 32.4, K 6.3, NL 5.7, TD 5.0

Interactions between Polish and Ukrainian Canadians must get...awkward at times.

[H. Ross Peron]

You can actually see them, to some extent, on satellite maps taken at night and also showing woodland cover and so on as the population density in rural areas added to Poland after 1945 is a lot lower than in the rest of the country: attempts to repopulate the new territories were only properly successful in the cities and conurbations, and largely for the same reasons as those areas continually leaked people from the early 19th century onwards when they were still German; i.e. remote, poor quality soil and so on.

This makes me wonder if areas with particularly high % of those descended pre-1945 Poles (presumably mostly rural) vote divergently from other parts of western Poland.