Record details

Open a record from PUBLIC → Votes, or from a link in a legislative journey, an Advisor answer, or search. Each institution has its own detail page; the sections shown depend on what its official source publishes. A side panel lists the page's sections for quick navigation.

Sejm vote

The banner shows the title of the vote and, when published, its topic and description. The side panel contains:

• Result — the outcome (for example Passed or Quorum missing), the counts Yes, No, Abstain, Invalid ballots, and Not voting with their share of the chamber, the number of votes cast, and the number of seats represented in the result;
• Details — Chamber, Term, Proceeding, Voting, Date, Method (Electronic, Traditional, or Candidate / list vote), and Majority (Simple, Absolute, Qualified, or Three-fifths, with the required number of votes when recorded).

The Voting result section shows the chamber map: each seat is one member, coloured by the recorded vote, with a legend of counts below. Hover over a seat to see the member and the vote. Under Highlight parliamentary clubs, select one or more clubs to highlight their seats; All seats restores the full map.

For a vote on candidates, Candidates / options lists each option with its votes and share of ballots. Select a candidate to show in the chamber map who supported them; select it again to clear the selection.

If the source has not published individual ballots, the page says so and keeps the published totals in the side panel. If individual ballots are temporarily unavailable, Retry individual ballots loads them again.

Senate vote

The side panel contains:

• Result — Adopted or Rejected, the counts For, Against, Abstained, Did not vote, and Absent, the number of votes cast, and the seats represented;
• Details — Chamber, Term, Sitting, Voting, Date, and the Method and Majority as published by the Senate.

The Senate distinguishes senators who were absent from the sitting (Absent) from senators who were present but cast no vote (Did not vote).

Seat-by-seat distribution shows the Senate chamber map with each senator's vote, mapped from the individual records the Senate published. Hover over a seat to see the senator and the vote; a seat without a record is labelled as having no recorded vote. Persate does not substitute Sejm data for missing Senate records.

Presidential decision

The banner shows the outcome, the decision date, and the title of the act; when Short titles is on, the official title appears below the short one. The page can contain:

• AI overview — an automated overview of the decision, with the sources it is based on. The official text is authoritative.
• The act — the act and its bill: the print and joint prints, the term, View legislative process, and Process page on sejm.gov.pl. If the decision is not yet linked to a bill, the official sources below name the act.
• Veto justification — for a veto, the President's request to reconsider the act.
• Reconsideration by the Sejm — for a veto, the Sejm's vote on it: Yes, No, Abstain, and Not voting, the number of votes for against the number required to override the veto, the rule (three fifths of votes cast, with at least half of the Sejm present), and View Sejm vote. If no vote has been recorded yet, the section says so.
• Constitutional Tribunal — for a referral, the linked Tribunal cases with their filing and decision dates.
• Earlier vetoes of this act and Earlier vetoes of acts with the same title — earlier decisions, the second list covering other acts with the same title rather than the same act.
• Official sources — the official records of the decision, each with an Official source link.
• Documents — documents linked to the decision; open one to read the Persate copy in a preview panel.

The side panel contains:

• Path of the act — the recorded steps of the act across the Sejm, the Senate, the President, and the Tribunal, with dates, for example Act passed, Senate position, Sent to the President, Vote on the veto, or Tribunal ruling. Steps link to the corresponding vote, decision, or case when that record is available.
• Actions — View legislative process, Process page on sejm.gov.pl, and Open official source, when available.
• Details — Sent to the President, Decision period, Decision, Date, Review, Print, Recorded by the Sejm, and Confirmed by (the official sources that record the decision).

Constitutional Tribunal case

The banner shows the signature, the outcome or waiting status, the ruling date, and Act on hold for a pending preventive review. When the ruling states when the challenged provision loses force, a note shows the date or the deferral period, quoting the ruling. The page can contain:

• AI overview — an automated overview of the case.
• Adjudicating bench — for a ruling: Unanimous ruling or Ruling by majority when the ruling text states it, and the judges with the Presiding judge, the Rapporteur, and each Separate opinion marked. Separate opinions can concern the reasoning or the bench; they are not an exact vote tally.
• Official ruling text — the text of the ruling in its original language. Without a ruling, the section states that the Tribunal has not ruled yet, that the case was closed without a recorded ruling, or that the source does not record how the case ended.
• Sources — the official case record, the judgment text, and the challenged act, which open in a new tab.

The side panel contains Path of the act, Details (Signature, Applicant, Filed, Hearing, Review, and Challenged), and Open official source.

Documents and provenance

Related items open either in a Persate preview panel or in a new browser tab, depending on the source and format. On Sejm and Senate vote pages, Related items combines documents, linked legislative processes, and connections from the relationship graph, such as people, organizations, prints, acts, or questions. Treat the linked official document as authoritative. A document the source has not published is shown as unavailable; Persate does not recreate it.

Troubleshooting

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