Drill down into Poland’s presidential election voting patterns

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Drill down into Poland’s presidential election voting patterns

Poland’s presidential election will go to a second-round run-off after centrist candidate Rafał Trzaskowski and conservative Karol Nawrocki finished in a close contest in the May 15 first round.

The second round of the Polish presidential election runs the risk of producing the opposite of the Romanian election which has just, to the general surprise, given the victory to a moderate pro-European candidate. Arrived in the lead in the first round, the mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaszkowski, pro-European liberal, keeps only a rather small chance of winning in the second round against the PiS candidate, Karol Nawrocki. How to explain this resu…

Although Rafał Trzaskowski can speak of a slight advantage after the first round of the presidential elections, as emphasized by the election data analyst Daniel Pers, nothing has been decided yet. According to him, the mayor of Warsaw has a "psychological advantage" and "has not lost yet".

Voters who changed their polling place once before the first round of the presidential elections (May 18) will vote in the same, changed place also in the second round (June 1). However, the polling place can be changed by submitting a new application - explains the Ministry of Digital Affairs.

The gap between the two candidates in the second round is only 2 per cent; however, 8 per cent of the voters have not yet been determined.