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In the 1920 Constituent Assembly election, the Polish Party received over 6% of the vote, but its percentage of votes later declined to about 3%.

In 1938, the Free City's population of 410,000 was 98% German, 1% Polish and 1% other. The Free City was created in order to give Poland access to a sizeable seaport. Poland was given certain rights pertaining to communication, the railways and port facilities in the city.

The Free City was under League of Nations protection and put into a binding customs union with Poland. As the treaty stated, the region was to remain separated from the post-war German Republic and from the newly independent Polish Republic, but it was not a sovereign state. The Free City included the city of Danzig and other nearby towns, villages, and settlements that were primarily inhabited by Germans. It was created on 15 November 1920 in accordance with the terms of Article 100 (Section XI of Part III) of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I. The Free City of Danzig ( German: Freie Stadt Danzig Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk Kashubian: Wòlny Gard Gduńsk) was a semi- autonomous city-state that existed between 19, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas.