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| 1296 | Wladyslaw I |  |
| Elected Prince of Great Poland |
| 1573 | Zamojski, Jan | |
| Secures the election of Henry of Valois as King of Poland |
| 1575 | Zamojski, Jan | |
| Secures the election of Stephen Bathory as King of Poland |
| 1587 | Zamojski, Jan | |
| Secures the election of Sigismund III as King of Poland |
| 1610 | Wladyslaw IV Vasa | |
| Elected Tsar during the Polish occupation of Moscow but never takes the throne |
| 1632 | Wladyslaw IV Vasa | |
| Elected to succeed his father |
| 1674 | John III | |
| 21st May The Diet in Warsaw elects John III King |
| 1683 | Sobieski, Jakob | |
| Fails to win the royal election |
| 1697 | Augustus II the Strong | |
| 27th June Frederick Augustus the elector of Saxony is elected King of Poland |
| 27th June Supported by the Pope & the Emperor of the Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1928 | Bartel, Kazimierz | |
| Mar Warsaw Government electoral victory |
| 1930 | Pilsudski, Josef Klemens | |
| Nov The government wins the elections |
| 1957 | Gierek, Edward | |
| Elected to the Polish Parliament |
| 1978 | John Paul II | |
| 16th Oct Vatican Elected by the College of Cardinals, in the 8th round |
| 1989 | Jaruzelski, Wojciech | |
| Solidarity wins 99 out of 100 seats in the Senate |
| Solidarity wins every seat in the Sejim |
| July Jaruzelski elected President by a small majority |
| 1989 | Walesa, Lech | |
| Solidarity wins 99 out of 100 seats in the Senate |
| Solidarity wins every seat in the Sejim |
| Aug Limited free elections take place |
| 1990 | Walesa, Lech | |
| 9th Dec Wins a landslide election victory |
| 1991 | Kwasniewski, Aleksander | |
| Elected Member of Parliament |
| 1991 | Walesa, Lech | |
| Appoints Olszewski is Prime Minister after the election |
| 1993 | Kwasniewski, Aleksander | |
| The SLD win the Polish elections |
| 1995 | Kwasniewski, Aleksander | |
| 19th Nov Former Polish communist apparatchik Aleksandr Kwasniewski wins the presidency having used slick western-style campaign tactics to gain a narrow victory over Lech Walesa |
| 1995 | Walesa, Lech | |
| 19th Nov Former Polish communist apparatchik Aleksandr Kwasniewski wins the presidency having used slick western-style campaign tactics to gain a narrow victory over Lech Walesa |
| 1997 | Buzek, Jerzy | |
| The election is won by the Solidarity grouping AWS |
| 1997 | Kwasniewski, Aleksander | |
| The general election is won by the Solidarity |
| 2000 | Kwasniewski, Aleksander | |
| Re-elected President of Poland |
