ANNOUNCEMENT

AFTER PRESS CONFERENCE HELD AT THE SEAT OF THE NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (NEC) IN WARSAW

 

 

On 9 October 2005, at 12.10 p.m. at the seat of the National Electoral Commission at ul. Wiejska a press conference was held concerning the Elections for the President of the Republic of Poland.

The following participated in the conference:

 

            Chairman of NEC                             Judge Ferdynand Rymarz

 

            Deputy Chairman                              Judge Stanisław Kosmal

 

            Members                                           Judge Andrzej Mączyński

                                                                      Judge Włodzimierz Ryms

                                                                       Judge Stanisław Zabłocki

                                                                      

                                                          

 

            Secretary of NEC

Head of the National Electoral Office     Minister Kazimierz Wojciech Czaplicki

 

 

The conference was chaired by the NEC Chairman, Judge Ferdynand Rymarz, who presented information on the election turnout and the course of the vote as at 10.30 a.m.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION
of 9 October 2005

Concerning the number of persons registered on electoral lists and the number of electors who received ballot cards by 10.30 a.m.  in the Elections for the President of the Republic of Poland written for 9 October 2005.

 

 

I. Countrywide statistical information

According to the information received from 24 984 out of the total 25 000 local electoral commissions established countrywide (excluding the polling stations established abroad and on the Polish ships at sea), the National Electoral Commission advises that as at 10.30 a.m.  on 9 October 2005:

1. The number of eligible voters, i.e. the number of electors registered on the elector lists at the polling stations which provided the data was 30 025 607.

2. 2 459 533 ballot cards were issued to the eligible voters which constitutes 8.19% of the total number of the eligible voters.

 

II. Collective information broken down by the provinces:

Province	No. of the polling stations		No. of the eligible persons	No. of the ballot cards issued	% (6:5)
	Total	which provided the data
1	2	3	4	5	6
dolnośląskie province	1 816	1 816	2 325 541	158 692	6.82%
kujawsko-pomorskie province	1 369	1 369	1 628 528	127 056	7.80%
lubelskie province	1 776	1 776	1 730 731	138 116	7.98%
lubuskie province	655	653	792 315	49 142	6.20%
łódzkie province	1 701	1 701	2 073 439	157 397	7.59%
małopolskie province	2 221	2 221	2 504 875	278 243	11.11%
mazowieckie province	3 186	3 186	4 030 120	327 986	8.14%
opolskie province	794	794	828 660	58 683	7.08%
podkarpackie province	1 644	1 644	1 624 035	175 200	10.79%
podlaskie province	847	847	943 335	87 033	9.23%
pomorskie province	1 268	1 268	1 697 578	130 141	7.67%
śląskie province	2 675	2 675	3 759 728	319 989	8.51%
świętokrzyskie province	932	932	1 037 665	68 737	6.62%
warmińsko-mazurskie province	983	983	1 121 813	88 966	7.93%
wielkopolskie province	2 093	2 093	2 617 437	206 639	7.89%
zachodniopomorskie province	1 040	1 026	1 309 807	87 513	6.68%

 

 

III. Collective information broken down by the cities with the population over 250 thousand

 

No.	City	Total no. of the rolling stations	No. of the poling stations which provided the information	No. of eligible voters	No. of ballot cards issued	% (6:5)
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1.	city of  Bydgoszcz	205	205	296 121	22 778	7.69%
2.	city of  Gdańsk	211	211	361 979	25 996	7.18%
3.	city of  Katowice	163	163	259 213	21 605	8.33%
4.	city of  Kraków	444	444	579 925	52 963	9.13%
5.	city of  Lublin	192	192	278 135	22 877	8.23%
6.	city of  Poznań	295	295	445 081	38 557	8.66%
7.	city of  Szczecin	201	187	294 281	23 317	7.92%
8.	city of  Wrocław	304	304	507 443	40 767	8.03%
9.	Capital city of Warsaw	819	819	1 331 739	121 012	9.09%
10.	city of  Łódź	396	396	624 764	48 281	7.73%

 IV. In comparison with the total number of the eligible voters, the highest turnout was noted in the Korzenna administrative district, małopolskie province, i.e. 25.41%

 

The NEC Chairman said that so far no major incidents of breaching the election law had been noted. The voting continues in a quiet and dignified atmosphere.

 

The subsequent conferences have been scheduled for:

6.10 p.m. – to provide information on the turnout and the course of the vote as at 4.30 p.m.

8.10 p.m. – to provide summary information on the course of the vote.

 

NEC anticipates that on the night from 9 to 10 October 2005 provision of the partial unofficial results of the vote will be possible. Also anticipated is provision of information as it is delivered to the seat of NEC in the electronic version prepared by the local electoral commissions from 10% -between 11-12 p.m., and after 12.00 p.m. until the early morning hours from 30% ,  60% and  90%  of the polling stations.

The official results of the Polish Presidential Elections may be expected on Monday after all reports from the district electoral commissions hale been delivered.