The Polish general election is scheduled on Oct. 25.

Here is the confirmed list of candidates running in the 2015 Polish parliamentary elections.

Ewa Kopacz

Kopacz belongs to the Civic Platform Party, and has been the Prime Minister of Poland since September 2014. She succeeded Donald Tusk as the head of the government when the latter tendered his resignation from the post to become the president of the European Council. Earlier, she was the Speaker of the Sejm, the lower house of Poland's parliament. Before she entered politics, she worked as a paediatrician and a general practitioner.

In the 2011 parliamentary election, Kopacz gathered 39.2 per cent of the votes with 207 seats.

Beata Szydło

Szydło belongs to the Law and Justice (PiS) Party of Poland. She was elected as the member of the Sejm in September 2005 with 14,447 votes from 12 districts of Chrzanow. The party nominated her as the prime ministerial candidate for the general election of October 2015.

In the 2011 parliamentary election, Szydło gathered 29.9 per cent votes with 157 seats.

Barbara Nowacka

Nowacka is the leader of the electoral coalition United Left. She is the daughter of former Deputy Prime Minister Izabela Jaruga Nowacka, who died in the crash of the Polish Tu-154 in 2010 near Smolensk. She had been a computer scientist by profession when she joined politics.

Janusz Piechocińs

Piechociński belongs to the Polish People’s Party (PSL). He has been the deputy prime minister of Poland since December 2012. He was elected as the Sejm member in November 2011 to represent his party. In November 2012, he was declared the president of the Polish People’s Party.

In the 2011 parliamentary election, Piechociński gathered 8.4 per cent votes with 28 seats.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Korwin-Mikke is the founder of the Coalition for the Renewal of the Republic – Freedom and Hope (KORWiN) party. He is a conservative liberal commentator in Polish politics and currently the chairman of the party. He also holds the position as a member of the European Parliament. He was the leader of the Congress of the New Right, which was derived from Freedom and Lawfulness in 2011. He has been leading the Freedom and Lawfulness since 2009, along with the Real Politics Union since 1990.

Ryszard Galla

Galla is a Polish politician from the German Minority party. He became a Sejm member in September 2005 with 9072 votes from the 21st Opole district. To date, he is the only member in the Sejm who is from the German Minority.

In the 2011 parliamentary election, Galla gathered 0.19 per cent votes with 1 seat.

UPDATE 10/19/2015: Opinion poll results

Recently, opinion polls were conducted by the Polland's Public Opinion Research Centre where it was found that the main opposition right-wing Law and Justice, or PiS, party might become the largest party in the October parliamentary elections 2015 with a majority of around 10 percent over the ruling Civic Platform, or PO. However, overall majority seems doubtful. In that case, the performance of the small parties would also be a considerable thing to note so that the PiS could form a successful and effective coalition.

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