Elections of councillors to organs of local government units in 21st October 2018 by voivodship

Data of the National Electoral Commission. Territorial Self-Government - self-government community of people and the territory inhabited by them. Legal entities distinguished from central government structures that legally emerged as an association of the regional or local population, and that was established in order to fulfil public tasks. Units of territorial self-government are communes, counties, and voivodeships. The Constitution of the Republic of Poland - Article 169 1. Units of local government shall perform their duties through constitutive and executive organs. 2. Elections to constitutive organs shall be universal, direct, equal and shall be conducted by secret ballot. The principles and procedures for submitting candidates and for the conduct of elections, as well as the requirements for the validity of elections, shall be specified by statute. 3. The principles and procedures for the election and dismissal of executive organs of units of local government shall be specified by statute. 4. The internal organizational structure of units of local government shall be specified, within statutory limits, by their constitutive organs.