Kraków City Council
City Council of the Capiyal Royal City of Kraków Rada Stołecznego Królewskiego Miasta Krakowa | |
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Type | |
Type | |
Leadership | |
Chairman | Jakub Kosek, KO |
Vice-Chairpersons | |
Structure | |
Seats | 43 |
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Political groups |
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Elections | |
Multi-member electoral districts with five-year terms | |
Last election | 7 April 2024 |
Next election | 2029 |
Meeting place | |
Wielopolski Palace | |
Website | |
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The Kraków City Council is the governing body of Kraków. The council has forty-three elected members[1] elected every five years in an election by city voters through a secret ballot. The election of City Council and the local head of government,[2] which takes place at the same time, is based on legislation introduced on 20 June 2002.
City Council President
[edit]Council | Term of office | Name | Party | |
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1st | 1990-1993 | Kazimierz Barczyk | Solidarity Citizens' Committee | |
1993-1994 | Tadeusz Kołaczyk | |||
2nd | 1994-2002 | Stanisław Handzlik | Freedom Union | |
3rd | ||||
4th | 2002-2006 | Paweł Pytko | Law and Justice | |
5th | 2006-2007 | Paweł Klimowicz | Civic Platform | |
2007-2009 | Małgorzata Radwan-Ballada | |||
2009-2010 | Józef Pilch | Law and Justice | ||
6th | 2010-2018 | Bogusław Kośmider | Civic Platform | |
7th | ||||
8th | 2018-2022 | Dominik Jaśkowiec | ||
2022-2023 | Rafał Komarewicz | Poland 2050 | ||
9th | 2024-current | Jakub Kosek | Civic Platform |
Members of the Kraków City Council
[edit]Party | District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | District 6 | District 7 | |
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Civic Coalition | Dominik Jaśkowiec Anna Bałdyga Piotr Moskała Grzegorz Stawowy |
Jakub Kosek Grzegorz Stawowy Aleksandra Kot Joanna Hańderek |
Iwona Chamielec Tomasz Daros Renata Piętka Agnieszka Łętocha |
Małgorzata Potocka Bogusław Kośmider Agnieszka Pogoda-Tota |
Zbigniew Kożuch Grażyna Fijałkowska Alicja Szczepańska Tomasz Leśniak |
Łukasz Sęk Edyta Sikora Marek Hohenauer |
Bogumiła Drabik Magdalena Mazurkiewicz | |
Law and Justice | Agnieszka Paderewska | Maciej Michałowski | Michał Ciechowski Marek Sobieraj |
Krzysztof Sułowski Mariusz Kękuś |
Małgorzata Kot Aleksandra Witek |
Michał Drewnicki Renata Kucharska |
Włodzimierz Pietrus Edward Porębski | |
Kraków for Citizens | Łukasz Maślona | Aleksandra Owca | Łukasz Gibała | Michał Starobrat | Rafał Zawiślak | Rafał Nowak | Eliza Dydyńska-Czesak |
Election results
[edit]2024
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All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2024 election.
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Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
Civic Coalition | 118,641 | 40.11 | −3.54 | 24 | +1 | |
Law and Justice | 68,615 | 23.20 | −6.62 | 12 | −4 | |
Committee of Łukasz Gibała - Kraków for Citizens | 46,012 | 15.56 | +2.83 | 7 | +3 | |
Committee of Rafał Komarewicz Kraków Third Way | 18,430 | 6.23 | New | 0 | New | |
Confederation and Nonpartisan Localists | 17,753 | 6.00 | +2.96 | 0 | 0 | |
Committee of Andrzej Kulig „Towards the Future” | 14,264 | 4.82 | New | 0 | New | |
Committee of Stanisław Mazur | 7,105 | 2.40 | New | 0 | New | |
United for Kraków | 3,487 | 1.18 | New | 0 | New | |
Self-Governing Kraków | 1,467 | 0.50 | New | 0 | New | |
Total | 295,774 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 | |
Source: National Electoral Commission |
2018
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All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2018 election.
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Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
Committee of Jacek Majchrowski – Civic Kraków | 143,883 | 43.65 | −2.39 | 23 | −1 | |
Law and Justice | 98,305 | 29.82 | −3.33 | 16 | −3 | |
Committee of Łukasz Gibała „Kraków for Citizens” | 41,953 | 12.73 | +8.77 | 4 | +4 | |
Kukiz'15 | 13,204 | 4.01 | New | 0 | New | |
Together for Kraków | 10,268 | 3.11 | New | 0 | New | |
„Modern Kraków” of Konrad Berkowicz | 10,024 | 3.04 | −2.51 | 0 | 0 | |
Nonpartisan Local Government Activists | 9,576 | 2.90 | New | 0 | New | |
Prądnik Biały Our District | 1,828 | 0.55 | New | 0 | New | |
Our Kraków of Grzegorz Gorczyca | 620 | 0.19 | New | 0 | New | |
Total | 329,661 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 | |
Source: National Electoral Commission |
2014
[edit]All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2014 election.
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Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
Law and Justice | 75,870 | 33.15 | +6.21 | 19 | +7 | |
Civic Platform | 74,703 | 32.64 | −9.75 | 18 | −6 | |
Committee of Jacek Majchrowski | 30,660 | 13.40 | −1.26 | 6 | −1 | |
Kraków Against Olympics | 15,403 | 6.73 | New | 0 | New | |
New Right – Kraków | 12,692 | 5.55 | +2.67 | 0 | 0 | |
Committee of Łukasz Gibała „Kraków a City for People” | 9,073 | 3.96 | New | 0 | New | |
Defense of Rights of Retirees Pensioners Tenants | 4,573 | 2.00 | New | 0 | New | |
Committee of Sławomir Ptaszkiewicz – Kraków at 100% | 4,481 | 1.96 | New | 0 | New | |
Citizens of Kraków | 1,312 | 0.57 | New | 0 | New | |
Libertarian Party | 97 | 0.04 | New | 0 | New | |
Total | 228,864 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 | |
Source: National Electoral Commission |
2010
[edit]All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2010 election.
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Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
Civic Platform | 103,370 | 42.39 | +4.56 | 24 | +2 | |
Law and Justice | 65,694 | 26.94 | −1.67 | 12 | −7 | |
Committee of Jacek Majchrowski | 35,758 | 14.66 | +3.51 | 7 | +5 | |
Democratic Left Alliance | 18,775 | 7.70 | −0.35 | 0 | 0 | |
Movement of Voters of Janusz Korwin-Mikke | 7,013 | 2.88 | New | 0 | New | |
Right Together Self-Government Community | 4,770 | 1.96 | New | 0 | New | |
Kraków Agreement of Citizens | 2,637 | 1.08 | +0.60 | 0 | 0 | |
Kraków Initiative Group of Defense of Tenants' Rights | 2,603 | 1.07 | New | 0 | New | |
Fair Kraków | 1,623 | 0.67 | New | 0 | New | |
Young Kraków | 1,328 | 0.54 | New | 0 | New | |
Defense of Human Rights | 302 | 0.12 | New | 0 | New | |
Total | 243,873 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 | |
Source: National Electoral Commission |
2006
[edit]All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2006 election.
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Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
Civic Platform | 90,331 | 37.83 | +24.10 | 22 | +15 | |
Law and Justice | 68,323 | 28.61 | +11.39 | 19 | +10 | |
Committee of Jacek Majchrowski | 26,630 | 11.15 | +7.55 | 2 | +2 | |
SLD+SDPL+PD+UP Left and Democrats | 19,217 | 8.05 | −8.82 | 0 | −10 | |
League of Polish Families | 9,724 | 4.07 | −12.05 | 0 | −9 | |
Lassota | 5,445 | 2.28 | −10.13 | 0 | −7 | |
Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland | 1,649 | 0.69 | −3.04 | 0 | 0 | |
Other committees | 17,458 | 7.31 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 238,777 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 | |
Source: National Electoral Commission |
2002
[edit]All seats on the city council were being contested in the 2002 election. The number of seats was lowered from 75 to 43.
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Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
Law and Justice | 33,638 | 17.22 | New | 9 | New | |
Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union | 32,945 | 16.87 | −4.01 | 10 | −7 | |
League of Polish Families | 31,485 | 16.12 | New | 9 | New | |
Civic Platform | 26,807 | 13.73 | New | 7 | New | |
"Your City" Civic Committee of Józef Lassota | 24,241 | 12.41 | New | 7 | New | |
Kraków Self-Government Platform | 12,993 | 6.65 | New | 1 | New | |
Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland | 7,284 | 3.73 | New | 0 | New | |
Cross-Party Committee "Friendly Kraków" | 7,026 | 3.60 | New | 0 | New | |
Other committees | 18,873 | 9.66 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 195,292 | 100.00 | – | 43 | −32 | |
Source: National Electoral Commission |
1998
[edit]All seats on the city council were being contested in the 1998 election.
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Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
Solidarity Electoral Action | 86,929 | 38.59 | New | 38 | New | |
Coalition of Freedom Union, UPR, RIO... | 48,860 | 21.69 | New | 18 | New | |
Democratic Left Alliance | 47,032 | 20.88 | +6.17 | 17 | −1 | |
Patriotic Movement Fatherland | 16,802 | 7.46 | New | 2 | New | |
Social Alliance: PSL-UP-KPEiR | 6,084 | 2.70 | −4.02 | 0 | 0 | |
Other committees | 19,557 | 8.68 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 225,264 | 100.00 | – | 75 | 0 | |
Source: National Electoral Commission |
1994
[edit]All seats on the city council were being contested in the 1994 election.
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Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
Kraków Coalition „Your City” | 40,433 | 25.19 | New | 26 | New | |
Democratic Left Alliance | 23,946 | 14.92 | New | 18 | New | |
Self-Governing Kraków | 21,353 | 13.30 | New | 13 | New | |
Right Together | 15,941 | 9.93 | New | 10 | New | |
Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms | 11,377 | 7.09 | New | 4 | New | |
Municipal Agreement for Kraków | 7,308 | 4.55 | New | 1 | New | |
Labour Union | 6,193 | 3.86 | New | 0 | New | |
Citizens' Agreement „Krakowianie” | 5,991 | 3.73 | New | 1 | New | |
Polish People's Party | 4,592 | 2.86 | +0.22 | 0 | 0 | |
Polish Association of Tenants | 3,668 | 2.28 | New | 1 | New | |
Commonwealth of Societies of District XII | 1,613 | 1.00 | New | 1 | New | |
Other committees and independents | 16,715 | 10.41 | 0 | 0 | ||
No choice | 1,397 | 0.87 | – | – | ||
Total | 160,527 | 100.00 | – | 75 | 0 | |
Source: National Electoral Commission |
1990
[edit]All seats on the city council were being contested in the 1990 election.
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
Kraków Citizens' Committee „Solidarity” | 188,963 | 73.84 | 73 | |
Confederation of Independent Poland | 16,197 | 6.33 | 2 | |
Electoral Bloc of the Left | 11,260 | 4.40 | 0 | |
Polish People's Party | 6,750 | 2.64 | 0 | |
Other committees and independents | 28,561 | 11.16 | 0 | |
No choice | 4,163 | 1.63 | – | |
Total | 255,894 | 100.00 | 75 | |
Source: Official Journal of the Kraków Voivodeship |
References
[edit]- ^ Radni Miasta Krakowa V kadencji. BIP Kraków. Accessed 17 April 2010. (in Polish)
- ^ Prezydent Miasta Krakowa: Jacek Majchrowski. BIP Kraków. Accessed 17 April 2010. (in Polish)