Talk:1993 Polish parliamentary election

Senate vote figures
Does anyone have access to a source that has properly collated the results published by the NEC? Election Passport has put them into Excel format, but has a huge amount of inconsistency on party names, making it quite hard to properly collate them (while I have managed to get to the same figures as Nohlen & Stöver for Solidarity and the Democratic Union, other parties have been a bit of a struggle). And while the total number of valid and invalid votes and registered voters matches N&S, the number of registered voters (27,650,302) doesn't match (27,655,495) and nor does the total number of votes cast for parties (27,262,650 vs 27,263,952)... Annoyingly the CLEA upper house dataset only goes back to the 2001 elections... Cheers, Number   5  7  14:57, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * OK, so I found a source with more consistent spelling, resulting in the collation below. This also shows how I grouped independents and local lists. People are welcome to reclass them as appropriate! Cheers, Number   5  7  16:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Note: I double-checked, but I'm still not sure if I listed everything correctly Polish kurd (talk) 16:23, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * There were some you missed – you included Zarząd Klubu Inteligencji Katolickiej w Lublinie and Niezależny Komitet Wyborczy "TERAZ KURPIE" in local lists and Katolicki Komitet Wyborczy im Brata Alberta, Niezależny Komitet Wyborczy "Normalność", Niezależny Komitet Wyborczy Wyborców "Naprawa", Komitet Niezależnych Wyborców "O Normalne Życie", Niezależny Komitet Wyborczy Nowy Senat, Niezależny Komitet Wyborczy "Inicjatywa Obywatelska" and Niezależny Wiejski Komitet Wyborczy as independents.
 * For consistency, should Katolicki Komitet Wyborczy im Brata Alberta be in local lists and Niezależny Komitet Wyborczy "TERAZ KURPIE" in independents? Number   5  7  12:46, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Kurpie is a region in Poland, so I believe that Niezależny Komitet Wyborczy "TERAZ KURPIE" should be classified as a local list. The others, minus "Zarząd Klubu Inteligencji Katolickiej w Lublinie", appear to be independents which ran under non-independent electoral committees, but were still independents.
 * As for "Zarząd Klubu Inteligencji Katolickiej w Lublinie", I think it could be added to "Komitet Wyborczy Klubu Inteligencji Katolickiej w Białymstoku oraz Stowarzyszenia Rodzin Katolickich Archidiecezji Białostockiej" (and the "KIKBSRKAB" label changed to "KIK", Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej). Polish kurd (talk) 13:19, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds sensible. Cheers, Number   5  7  14:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Actually, after checking KIK Lublin's page, it seems they were never affiliated with the other regional KIKs, so they should be listed seperately. Adding that right now. Polish kurd (talk) 14:24, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Katolicki Komitet Wyborczy "Ojczyzna" in the infobox?
I've been wondering about whether KKW"O" should be included in the infobox, as it was a similar case to Lewica in 2015, where Lewica also won more votes than some other parties that scored seats, but regardless did not win any seats due to not passing the electoral threshold. Here, it would be in the 5th position (party5). Lewica from 2015 was also included in the infobox before it was, I presume vandalized? since it was removed by some IP with one edit. Polish kurd (talk) 16:18, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Portraits
Every single one of the portraits is ATLEAST 12 years out of date, and that's a clearly visible difference with Ryszard Bugaj (1993 official portrait) and Andrzej Gąsienica-Makowski (1993 official portrait). I know I could find fine portraits from around 1993, but a) I don't know my way around how copyright works, and b) I've been blocked on wikimedia commons for like 2 years by this point, so it's not like I could anyways. Polish kurd (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * We should just replace the infobox with the one used for 1991 Polish parliamentary election, which has the advantage of being able to list all the parties for both the Sejm and Senate and not waste space with out-of-date images. Number   5  7  20:37, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Here's what it could look like. Cheers, Number   5  7  21:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I think an issue is that the compressed infobox is more often used for elections with a large array of parties gaining seats, so it wouldn't fit with the following parliamentary elections. Also, it leaves out a lot of information compared to how it was beforehand (like # of votes, leader's seat, etc.), but it could be discussed and left like that for now. Polish kurd (talk) 13:08, 3 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I think the benefit for Polish articles is that it allows both the Senate and Sejm seats to be displayed in a clear fashion (currently only the Sejm seats are shown). Romania also has a small-ish number of parties entering parliament, but the infobox has been used on its articles for this reason (see e.g. 2016 Romanian parliamentary election). Number   5  7  21:29, 3 April 2024 (UTC)