Sentence examples for voivodship from inspiring English sources

The 39-year-old is enjoying increasing support – in the local elections late last year, the RAS won 8.5% of the vote and three seats in the Silesian voivodship, or local parliament.

That is lower than both the national average of 13% and the 14.6% average for the Podlasie Voivodship, where the town is situated.

THANKS to the communist love of bureaucrats, Poland has almost as many "voivodships" as the United States has states 49 in all.

"We are officially the second richest of 16 voivodships in Poland, after Warsaw and Masovia, and provide 14% of the GDP," said Gorzelik, "and we feel we don't get enough back from the national government".