The National Election Committee announced the final election results of the presidential election, Monday evening.
The figures provided by the Committee show that in total, 30,815,005 Poles were entitled to vote in the election last Sunday. Actual turnout amounted to 16,923,832 people, a frequency of 54.94 percent.
The number of valid votes was 16,806,170, with 117,662 spoiled ballots being cast.
Two candidates, Bronislaw Komorowski and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, will be competing for the presidential post in a second round of elections to be held on July 4.
Civic Platform’s candidate, Bronislaw Komorowski gained the most votes in Sunday’s ballot, with 41.54 percent, amounting to 6,981,319 votes.
Komorowski’s best results were obtained in Poznan (56.41 percent), Gdansk (52.93 percent) and Opole (51.62 percent). The worst three constiuencies for the Civic Platform candidate were Zamosc (22.48 percent), Lomza (23.62 percent) and Biala Podlaska (25.17 percent).
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Law and Justice came runner-up in the presidential race, gaining 36.46 percent, equal to 6,128,255 ballots cast.
Kaczynski’s best results were mainly from areas in eastern Poland (click here for more information on how Poland voted in the election), gaining the highest proportion of the ballot in Lomza (58.23 percent), Nowy Sacz (57.87 percent) and Rzeszow (56.48 percent). The lowest results for Kaczynski were noted in Poznan (23.08 percent), Koszalin (23.48 percent) and in Pila (24.02 percent).
Third place was claimed by leftist candidate Grzegorz Napieralski, who gained 13.68 percent of the ballot, amounting to 2,299,870 votes.
The highest recorded frequency was in the Baltic resort of Rewal, with 82.21 percent of eligible voters going to cast their ballot. The lowest turnout was in the Radlow ward, located in the Opole constituency (27.30 percent). (jb)
Alphabetical list of presidential candidates with ballot result
Marek Jurek – 177,315 – 1.06 percent
Jaroslaw Kaczynski – 6,128,255 – 36.46 percent
Bronislaw Komorowski – 6,981,319 – 41.54 percent
Janusz Korwin-Mikke – 416,898 – 2.48 percent
Andrzej Lepper – 214,657 – 1.28 percent
Kornel Morawiecki – 21,596 – 0.13 percent
Grzegorz Napieralski – 2,299,870 – 13.68 percent
Andrzej Olechowski – 242,439 – 1.44 percent
Waldemar Pawlak – 294,273 – 1.75 percent
Boguslaw Zietek – 29,548 – 0.18 percent
Source: PAP