The second round of presidential elections took place on June 1. The winner was Karol Nawrocki, president of the Institute of National Remembrance and a candidate supported by Law and Justice, who obtained 50.89 percent. votes. He defeated the candidate of the Civic Coalition, Rafał Trzaskowski, who won 49.11 percent. votes.
Karol Nawrocki obtained a total of 10,606,628 votes – this is the second highest result in the history of presidential elections in Poland after 1989. Only Lech Wałęsa achieved a better result in the second round of the 1990 election in 1990. Rafał Trzaskowski received 10,237,177 votes. The difference between candidates was 369,451 votes.
It is the Supreme Court who decides on the validity of the presidential election and has time until July 2, 2025. Citizens had the opportunity to submit electoral protests until June 16, and according to estimates, about 50,000 were received. such applications.
After the second round, they began to appear in public space Signals about possible irregularities in the operation of some regional electoral commissions. Indicated, among others for surprising differences in the results between the first and second round. It happened that the candidate obtained a comparable or even lower result in the second round than in the first one, which raised doubts.
Among the circuits that have caught attention, there are, among others Committees No. 95 in Krakow, No. 17 in Gdańsk, No. 53 in Katowice, No. 13 in Mińsk Mazowiecki, No. 10 in Tarnów, No. 6 in Kamienna Góra, No. 25 in Grudziądz, as well as two committees from Bielsko-Biała-No. 30 and 61.
Nearly half of Poles are in favor of recalculating the votes
As a result of re-checking the results in one of the committees in Bielsko-Biała-as the Prosecutor General said-stated exchange of votes cast for candidates. As a result, it was mistaken that Karol Nawrocki won more voteswhile in fact this support was due to Rafał Trzaskowski. In another committee from this city, 160 votes cast for Trzaskowski were attributed to Nawrocki. The results of Commission No. 95 in Krakow also raised serious doubts.
In connection with appearing information about errors and possible manipulations, appeals appeared to recalculate all votes. Prime Minister Donald Tusk did not support this initiative, emphasizing that he did not intend to question the overall election result. At the same time he noted that In each commission, in which reasonable doubts will arise, it is necessary to re -count votes.
In order for irregularities to realistically affect the final election result, they would have to affect at least 184,726 votes incorrectly attributed to Karol Nawrocki (assuming that no vote was mistakenly added to Trzaskowski). Meanwhile, in committees, where it was recommended to recalculate again, the number of votes covered by doubts is a maximum of several thousand.
In the SW Research survey for rp.pl, almost every second respondent (49.1 percent) replied that in his opinion voices should be converted again. 38.9 percent had the opposite opinion. respondents. 12 percent people did not have an opinion on this matter.
“Women (51 percent) consider the votes again a bit more often than men (47 percent). Due to his age, such an opinion is the most popular among people over 50 (54 percent). Taking into account the level of education, this sentence is the most divided by people with basic vocational education (54 percent). More often than the general respondents' Recondets from cities with a size of 200,000
The study was conducted by the SW Research research agency among users of the SW Panel on-line panel panel on June 17-18, 2025, the analysis covered a group of 800 Internet users over 18 years of age. The attempt was selected in a random and kwota way.
