Jakub Chełstowski

Jakub Piotr Chełstowski (born 7 April 1981) is a Polish executive and politician who served as the eighth marshal of Silesia and as a member of the Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik from 2018 to 2024. A member of Yes! For Poland (T!DPL) since 2022, he was previously a member of Law and Justice (PiS) from 2017 to 2022 and Tychy Our Little Homeland, a localist party in Tychy, from 2006 to 2017, which he led from 2014 to 2017.

Chełstowski was born in Tychy in 1981. He joined Tychy Our Little Homeland in 2006, becoming its vice-president before getting elected to represent the party on Tychy City Council in the 2010 Polish local elections, where he became leader of the opposition and feuded with Tychy's Civic Platform (PO) mayor Andrzej Dziuba, accusing him of corruption and mishandling funds. He became president of Tychy Our Little Homeland ahead of the 2014 local elections, where he was re-elected to a second term on the council and unsuccessfully stood against Dziuba for the mayoralty in an electoral pact with the Silesian Autonomy Movement (RAŚ), coming in second place with 18.76% of the vote to Dziuba's 64.76%.

From 2015, Chełstowski associated himself with PiS in Silesia, formally joining the party and leaving Tychy Our Little Homeland in 2017. In 2018, he was elected to represent PiS on the Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik, which also elected him as the eighth marshal of Silesia, succeeding PO's Wojciech Saługa. He defected from PiS to join T!DPL in 2022 but continued to serve as marshal until 2024, when he was succeeded by Saługa who was elected for another term in the role.