# Kraków City Council

The Kraków City Council is the governing body of Kraków. The council has 43 elected members 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, which takes place at the same time, is based on legislation introduced on 20 June 2002.

## City Council President

| Council | Term of office | Name | Party |
| 1st | 1990-1993 | Kazimierz Barczyk | Solidarity Citizens' Committee |
| 1st | 1993-1994 | Tadeusz Kołaczyk | Solidarity Citizens' Committee |
| 2nd | 1994-2002 | Stanisław Handzlik | Freedom Union |
| 3rd | 1994-2002 | Stanisław Handzlik | Freedom Union |
| 4th | 2002-2006 | Paweł Pytko | Law and Justice |
| 5th | 2006-2007 | Paweł Klimowicz | Civic Platform |
| 5th | 2007-2009 | Małgorzata Radwan-Ballada | Civic Platform |
| 5th | 2009-2010 | Józef Pilch | Law and Justice |
| 6th | 2010-2018 | Bogusław Kośmider | Civic Platform |
| 7th | 2010-2018 | Bogusław Kośmider | Civic Platform |
| 8th | 2018-2022 | Dominik Jaśkowiec | Civic Platform |
| 8th | 2022-2023 | Rafał Komarewicz | Poland 2050 |
| 9th | 2024-current | Jakub Kosek | Civic Platform |

## Members of the Kraków City Council

| Party | District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | District 6 | District 7 |
| 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
### 2024

All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2024 election.
| | 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 | Total | 295,774 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 |
| Source: National Electoral Commission |||||||

### 2018

All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2018 election.
| | 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 | Total | 329,661 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 |
| Source: National Electoral Commission |||||||

### 2014

All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2014 election.
| | 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 | Total | 228,864 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 |
| Source: National Electoral Commission |||||||

### 2010

All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2010 election.
| | 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 | Total | 243,873 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 |
| Source: National Electoral Commission |||||||

### 2006

All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2006 election.
| | 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 | Total | 238,777 | 100.00 | – | 43 | 0 |
| Source: National Electoral Commission |||||||

### 2002

All seats on the city council were being contested in the 2002 election. The number of seats was lowered from 75 to 43.
| | 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 | Total | 195,292 | 100.00 | – | 43 | −32 |
| Source: National Electoral Commission |||||||

### 1998

All seats on the city council were being contested in the 1998 election.
| | 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 | Total | 225,264 | 100.00 | – | 75 | 0 |
| Source: National Electoral Commission |||||||

### 1994

All seats on the city council were being contested in the 1994 election.
| | 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 | Total | 160,527 | 100.00 | – | 75 | 0 |
| Source: National Electoral Commission |||||||

### 1990

All seats on the city council were being contested in the 1990 election.
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 | Total | 255,894 | 100.00 | 75 |
| Source: Official Journal of the Kraków Voivodeship |||||