2016 Democratic Left Alliance leadership election

The leadership election took place on 16 January (10:00 to 15:00 CET)^[1] with a runoff on 23 January 2016. In the first round, all party members were eligible to vote, and turnout reached almost 63%.^[2] The second round was held at the Party Congress, where 733 cast their vote.^[3]

The election took place after the poor showing of the party in the 2015 presidential election, where its candidate, Magdalena Ogórek, came fifth with 2.38% of the vote, and the defeat of the party with its electoral alliance in the 2015 parliamentary election, where the alliance fell under the 8% threshold, losing all of its seats. The incumbent leader, Leszek Miller, did not stand for re-election following the defeat. The defeat also caused turmoil within the party, with a group in the party (politicians such as Krzysztof Gawkowski, Dariusz Joński, Marek Balt,^[4] Tomasz Trela^[5]) calling for Miller's resignation from politics.