Post-election analysis indicates AWS government lost votes to Civic Platform

According to Gazeta Wyborcza's post-election analysis, the winner, a coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and Labor Union (UP), which according to PBS obtained 41.3 % support, won favor in all social groups, receiving at least twice as many votes as the runner up. The coalition performed especially well among people with secondary education living in mid-sized cities. Civic Platform, which ranked second in the parliamentary contest with 12.7 %, attracted the pro-reform, intellectual voters away from the Freedom Union (UW), which gained a mere 3.1% and didn't make it to the Sejm. According to PBS, Samoobrona, with 10 % of the vote, gained support from the Polish Peasants Party (PSL) worker base, and found most favor in small towns and among those with vocational qualifications. Samoobrona's good result was put down to the electorate's frustration and anger. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.6) P.J.