We won!” exclaimed Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal mayor, as initial exit polls showed him edging ahead of his opponent, Karol Nawrocki, 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent, in Poland’s presidential election on June 1,

In a closely contested presidential runoff, conservative historian Karol Nawrocki has been declared the winner of Poland's 2025 presidential election, securing 50.89% of the vote against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski's 49.

A vote seen as a test of the power of populist nationalism in Europe was too close to call, with exit polls putting the two contenders neck and neck.