- Neither candidate will gain the 50% needed to win outright. The exit poll gave Mr Duda 34.5% of the vote, just ahead of Mr Komorowski on 33.1%.
Mr Komorowski hopes to win a second term in office.
Opinion polls before the election had put him comfortably in the lead.
The turnout was 48.8%. Read more:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32679820 - Front-runner Komorowski has around 40 percent in opinion polls. A comfortable re-election would give his government allies a confidence boost. They face another race later this year in a general election.
Komorowski’s closest rival Andrzej Duda has about 30 percent after closing the gap in the last few weeks.
One of Duda’s campaign promises is to lower the retirement age. He has warned that prices in Poland will go up if the country adopts the euro, something Komorowski said he wants to happen.http://www.euronews.com/2015/05/10/first-round-voting-underway-in-polish-presidential-election/ - Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski came in a surprise second behind his conservative opponent in the first round of a presidential election on Sunday and must now face him in a run-off, an exit poll showed.http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/10/us-poland-vote-president-idUSKBN0NU0RX20150510
- WARSAW, Poland — Exit poll: Opposition candidate wins 1st round of Polish presidential election, runoff needed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/exit-poll-opposition-candidate-wins-1st-round-of-polish-presidential-election-runoff-needed/2015/05/10/7ee0d924-f747-11e4-a47c-e56f4db884ed_story.html
- WARSAW, Poland – It's being called the biggest shock in Polish politics in years: President Bronislaw Komorowski apparently lost the first round of the country's presidential election to a previously unknown 42-year-old member of the European Parliament.http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/11/shock-result-in-polish-vote-could-signal-larger-power-shift/
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Poland's presidential election
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