In the parliamentary elections on October 15, 2023, the following senators were elected to the Senate of the 11th term: 41 senators nominated by Civic Coalition Election Committee – Civic Platform, Modern party-Nowoczesna, Polish Initiative, Greens Party; 34 of the Law and Justice Election Committee, 11 nominated by the Third Way (Szymon Hołownia’s Poland 2050 – Polish People’s Party) Election Committee, 9 of the New Left Election Committee and 5 of their own election committee.
The current Senate counts 80 men and 20 women (at the beginning of the term it was 81 men and 19 women). In the past, the number of women senators ranged from 6 in the first term to 26 in the fifth.
The average age of senators is 62. 1 senator is younger than 40, 21 are older than 70.
96 senators are university graduates (in the past, the education level ranged from 85 university graduates in the third term to 97 in the tenth). 4 senators have secondary education. 20 senators hold scientific degrees and titles. There are 5 university professors and 15 doctors or doctors habilitated (in the past, the number of professors ranged from 5 in the tenth term to 26 in the first).
75 senators have experience in territorial self-government work.
81 senators are seasoned parliamentarians: 65 served as previous terms senators, 39 were deputies to the Sejm, 5 – to the European Parliament. 3 longest-serving senators worked in the Parliament through 8 terms. In the past, number of senators with parliamentary experience ranged from 4 in the first term to 80 in the tenth.
At the beginning of the term, 87 senators declared affiliation to a political party: 36 – Civic Platform, 29 – Law and Justice, 5 – the New Left, 5 – Poland 2050 of Szymon Hołownia, 4 – Polish People's Party, and 2 – Lewica Razem. The following parties had 1 senator: Centre for Poland, Polish Socialist Party, the Agreement, Solidary Poland, Union of European Democrats, and the Labour Union. 13 senators were unaffiliated.