The Civic Coalition was originally created by the
Civic Platform and
Modern parties for
2018 local elections. In June 2019, it was announced that the Civic Coalition would be slated to participate in the
2019 Polish parliamentary election and Civic Platform and Modern would form a joint
parliamentary club.
The Greens announced at the end of July 2019 that they would participate in the elections as part of the Coalition. In August 2019, the
Silesian Autonomy Movement and other member organisations of the Silesian Electoral Agreement joined the Coalition.
2018 local elections and present In the 2018 local elections, the Civic Coalition received 26.97% of votes (second place after
Law and Justice), winning 194 seats. In 8
voivodeships, it obtained the best result, and in the
Pomerania the majority of seats. The coalition fared worse in the powiat and mayoral election. In the first round of 11 candidates of the Civic Coalition won elections for
mayors of
cities (including
Rafał Trzaskowski in Warsaw). In addition, 15 candidates of the Civic Coalition went through to the second round, of which 8 were elected. Candidates of Civic Coalition were elected presidents of 19 cities, while it was placed second to the
national-conservative Law and Justice in four. The committee has shown stronger electoral performances in large cities, such as,
Warsaw,
Poznań,
Gdańsk,
Wrocław,
Łódź, and
Kraków. Better than average results were achieved in
West and
North Poland (
Recovered Territories). In the
Opole Voivodeship, Civic Coalition received high support among the
German minority. However, it has weaker support in the villages and in the conservative eastern Poland. In the
2019 parliamentary elections, the Coalition received most of its votes in major cities (as in 2018 local elections) and areas surrounding them. For the 2019 election, the coalition entered an agreement with the
Silesian Regional Party and
Silesian Autonomy Movement, and activists and politicians associated with these Silesian parties were included on the Civic Coalition's electoral lists. The electoral pact between the Civic Coalition and Silesian regionalists declared three demands – the strengthening of regional government, an increase in the share of tax revenues allocated to local governments, and the recognition of
Silesian language as a regional language. Civic Platform already cooperated with the Silesian Autonomy Movement on a local level – in 2015, both parties entered a local coalition in the
Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik. In March 2023, Civic Coalition again pledged to recognize Silesian as a regional language. After exit polls for the
2023 parliamentary elections showed KO having taken a strong enough second-place finish to oust the ruling Law and Justice party, KO leader
Donald Tusk said, "I have been a politician for many years. I'm an athlete. Never in my life have I been so happy about taking seemingly second place. Poland won. Democracy has won." This is the largest part of the
15 October Coalition. On 25 October 2025, the three main components of the coalition, Civic Platform,
Modern, and
Polish Initiative,
merged into a new party. It was announced that this party would itself be named
Civic Coalition. == Ideology ==