Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian (European Parliament constituency)

In European elections, Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian (Polish: podlaskiego i warmińsko-mazurskiego) is a constituency of the European Parliament. It consists of the Podlaskie Voivodeship and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian
European Parliament constituency
Map of the European Parliament constituencies with Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian highlighted in red
Location among the current constituencies
3rd constituency in Poland
Member statePoland
Created2004
MEPs2 (2004–2019)
3 (2019–)
Sources

The chief cities are Elbląg, Olsztyn and Białystok. With just two seats representing 2,651,000 people, Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian was the most under-represented constituency in the entire European Union until 2019 when it gained a third seat.[1]

Nomenclature

The relevant Polish legislation ("The Act of 23 January 2004 on Elections to the European Parliament"[2]) establishing the constituencies does not give the constituencies formal names. Instead, each constituency has a number, territorial description, and location of the Constituency Electoral Commission. The 2004 Polish National Election Commission[3] and the 2004 European Parliament Election website[4] uses the territorial description when referring to the constituency, not the electoral commission location.

MEPs
MEPs for Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian, 2004 onwards
Election 2004 (6th parliament) 2009 (7th parliament) 2014 (8th parliament) 2019 (9th parliament)
MEP
Party		 Barbara Kudrycka
Civic Platform[lower-alpha 1]		 Krzysztof Hołowczyc
Civic Platform[lower-alpha 2]		 Krzysztof Lisek
Civic Platform		 Barbara Kudrycka
Civic Platform		 Tomasz Frankowski
Civic Platform
MEP
Party		 Bogusław Rogalski
League of Polish Families		 Jacek Kurski
Law and Justice[lower-alpha 3]
United Poland[lower-alpha 4]		 Karol Karski
Law and Justice
MEP
Party		 2 seats (2004–2019) Krzysztof Jurgiel
Law and Justice

References
  1. Until 15 November 2007.
  2. From 15 November 2007.
  3. Until 3 April 2012.[5]
  4. From 4 April 2012.[5]
  1. "I don't get your point. You say it is not true and then you agree that some outl... | Hacker News". Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  2. "The Act of 23 January 2004 on Elections to the European Parliament". pkw.gov.pl. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
  3. "Polish National Election Commission 2004" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2008.
  4. "European Parliament Election website 2004". Archived from the original on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
  5. "7th parliamentary term | Jacek Olgierd KURSKI | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 31 March 2023.


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