clm-929e67c56fc6d040
quantitative
Since 2014 Warsaw's residents have proposed projects and then voted on which of them the city carries out the following year
Permanent project revision
Revision 2026-10-17-baseline · effective 2026-10-17
Current revision. This is the snapshot used by the live entity page.
Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 24 claims and 11 source dossiers.
sha256:ef9a90f74d11a654b4df6f12fc7beebe999085bced7e9f6323ff265a5d7ffa89
add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.
clm-929e67c56fc6d040
quantitative
Since 2014 Warsaw's residents have proposed projects and then voted on which of them the city carries out the following year
clm-4ed71de2e91b6189
quantitative
The first edition shared out more than 26 million złoty across the 18 districts
clm-ffab19acacb4438f
quantitative
since a national law of January 2018 a participatory budget is compulsory in Polish cities with county rights and must be at least 0.5% of the city's spending
clm-44364fe85e73227d
descriptive
Submission, the city's assessment, appeals and the vote run through an electronic system called ESOG
clm-d8cf84e202b101ea
quantitative
99 per cent of votes in 2026 were cast online
clm-85fe59192389670f
descriptive
District offices enter each winning project's progress there
clm-612390f31f26212c
descriptive
the city publishes it at bo.um.warszawa.pl
clm-62defec8dc75271b
descriptive
Any resident may vote
clm-e2ecbf9724a375f1
quantitative
under the 2019 rules an online voter gave an e-mail address and personal data
clm-1d168f41092d85a6
descriptive
anyone who filled in more than one ballot had all their votes voided
clm-2f3f3581aff23110
quantitative
Warsaw's ballots from 2017 to 2023 are in an open research library of participatory-budget data
clm-5589ac72e1875249
quantitative
166,892 people voted in 2014; the second edition set the record of 172,395
clm-a63a4dae4b0185c0
quantitative
more than 105,000 voted for 83 million złoty in 2019
clm-5ab55743f3303965
quantitative
more than 73,000 for a pool of over 120 million in 2025
clm-9be9784de9af18bd
quantitative
55,366 in June 2026
clm-5d6e5bd8b16fc786
quantitative
about 3 per cent of residents by Super Express's count
clm-6c254bacba045cbe
quantitative
The city said in October 2019 that almost 2,500 projects chosen by residents had been carried out
clm-8a1891e45c3a2ae3
quantitative
NIK, the Supreme Audit Office, rated the work of two district offices on the 2019–2021 editions positively
clm-0f7784d442125bdf
descriptive
Praga-Południe's office had not carried out one project from each of two editions, both halted by a planned paid-parking zone
clm-345da56dfa4cfdac
quantitative
Mokotów's office let a 924,210-złoty cycle path onto the 2020 ballot after an unreliable check of whether it could be built within one budget year; it won and was not built within that year
clm-955196762860ee1d
quantitative
Warsaw's pool rose from 26 million złoty to more than 120 million while voters fell from 166,892 to 55,366
clm-10fe55060627930e
descriptive
The city calls it the burn-out of a format more than a dozen years old, competing with other participation tools
clm-2f987ea0f88203e1
descriptive
the Miasto Jest Nasze association blames weak promotion, ideas rejected without clear reasons and winning projects that stay unbuilt for years
clm-eecfb7bc3e59baa2
quantitative
the only independent check of delivery, NIK's, covered two of the 18 districts
This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.
Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.
sha256:ef9a90f74d11a654b4df6f12fc7beebe999085bced7e9f6323ff265a5d7ffa89
src-7e94558c9255e09eReport on the first edition's results: more than 26 million złoty to distribute, over 2,200 projects submitted, 1,390 put to the vote across the 18 districts, almost 167,000 voters casting 148,814 valid votes (106,701 online, 42,113 on paper), 336 winning projects to be carried out the following year.
src-efe8f945cb5d53cePAP report on the third edition: 1,752 projects on the ballot, more than 58 million złoty, any Warsaw resident may vote in one district, online or on a paper card handed in in person with ID; the second edition had 51 million złoty and 622 projects to be carried out.
src-e2e950b70d872f73Explainer on the 2019 vote: online voting starts with an e-mail address to which a voting link is sent, followed by personal data; paper voting at district offices with ID; up to 15 district and 10 citywide projects; filling in several ballots voids all of a person's votes.
src-114184c2bc74a81ePAP report on the sixth edition's results: 1,425 projects, 83 million złoty, more than 105,000 voters with 99 per cent voting online, 29 citywide and 385 district winners; the city hall says almost 2,500 projects chosen by residents have been carried out.
src-2353b68fdd644c19Report on the 13th edition: 55,366 voters, about 3 per cent of residents, against 166,892 in 2014 and the record 172,395 in the second edition; critiques from the Miasto Jest Nasze association and a Targówek councillor; the city hall's deputy spokesperson attributes the decline to the format's burn-out and competing participation tools.
src-a9d4e93f1059ab8dCity knowledge-base page on the 2025 vote (projects delivered in 2026): rules adopted on 17 October 2024 (local areas, 20/30/50 split, up to five votes per level), 1,373 projects, a pool of more than 120 million złoty, 551 winners, more than 73,000 voters; progress tracked at bo.um.warszawa.pl.
src-c0441232a6ca2dfcCity knowledge-base page on the 2026 vote (projects delivered in 2027): voting from 1 to 15 June 2026, 1,185 projects, 582 winners, 55,366 voters, 99 per cent of votes cast electronically.
src-5e8a870bc5aa25ddSupreme Audit Office statement on the Praga-Południe district office, 2019–2021 editions: overall positive; projects submitted mainly through the ESOG system; the district pool was 7.1% of 0.5% of the city's expenditure; one project from each of the sixth and seventh editions not carried out, both suspended over a planned paid-parking zone.
src-51f2535dfe80ff60Supreme Audit Office statement on the Mokotów district office, 2019–2021 editions: descriptive assessment; documentation of 54 of 55 project assessments examined kept unreliably or against internal rules; a 924,210-złoty cycle path admitted to the 2020 vote after an unreliable feasibility check and not delivered within one budget year; delivery of selected projects rated positively.
src-5658592d5de5b7f0The amending act that added participatory budgets to the Municipal Self-Government Act: residents decide annually by direct vote on part of the budget, the council may not remove or materially change winning projects, and in cities with county rights the participatory budget is compulsory and at least 0.5% of the municipality's expenditure.
src-3d708ec032d71e5cPaper presenting PABULIB, an open library of participatory-budgeting instances, most of them from Polish cities and in particular Warsaw; notes that Warsaw voters approve up to 15 local and up to 10 citywide projects, and analyses Warsaw's elections from 2017 to 2023.