2024 Polish local elections

While Law and Justice remained the strongest party, the Civic Coalition and its partners saw some improvement, providing them with majorities in up to 11 of the 16 regional assemblies.

The second round to elect heads of municipalities, mayors and city presidents was held on 21 April in places where no candidate obtained more than 50% of votes.

[7] The lawmakers indicated that the extension of the term of office was necessary to avoid the organisational problems associated with holding local and parliamentary elections at approximately the same time.

They also questioned the legitimacy of concerns about the simultaneous organisation of local and parliamentary elections, and pointed out that the act does not address these problems systemically, only incidentally.

The ruling Law and Justice party received the highest number of votes, but lost its ability to form a majority government.

[1] Parties or coalitions are required to receive 5% of valid votes throughout the entire voivodeship, county, municipality or district in order to be eligible to earn seats.

He also acknowledged that conservative regions appeared to have mobilized more voters, while some of his party's supporters might not have voted due to fine weather conditions on 7 April.

"[35] Following the results of the runoff elections on 21 April, Tusk expressed satisfaction over the Civic Coalition's showing in key races and said that “Law and Justice has simply disappeared in many places”.

Coalition agreements in voivodeships after the 2018 election.
In November 2022 PiS lost power in Silesian Voivodeship , after 4 councillors left the party and joined the opposition, In 2024 the coalition agreement between PiS and BS in Lower Silesian Voivodeship was terminated, in favor of a PO-BS-NH one [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Civic Coalition campaign in Prudnik