SLD wins Warsaw Gmina Centrum elections but shy of absolute majority

Only about 20% of eligible voters turned out to participate in the supplementary elections to the Warsaw Gmina Centrum council, with the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) winning the ballot. Official results will be announced no sooner than today, but based on data from local election commissions the result can be estimated quite accurately. SLD is expected to get 38 of the 80 seats on the council, Solidarity Election Action (AWS) 28 and Freedom Union (UW) 13, with one seat going to the Warsaw Family coalition. Just as after the previous elections, which took place in 1998, no political group has a majority. The most likely coalition is SLD-UW, the same configuration which was in power until the Prime Minister dismissed the council, called new elections and appointed a caretaker administrator for Gmina Centrum. (Rzeczpospolita, page A3)