PiS wins Polish elections – exit poll

According to the exit poll, the National Conservative Party won the local elections in Poland. Law and Justice (PiS), which ruled the country for eight years until October 2023 and is now in opposition. Reuters wrote this on Sunday, April 7, citing an exit poll from the company Ipsos.

PiS won 33.7% of the vote, ahead of the Liberals civil coalition (KO), where 31.9% of voters voted.

Other parties – Christian Conservative Third way And Leviticus – according to the exit poll, they got 13.5% and 6.8%, respectively.

The turnout for the local elections in 2024 was 51.5%.

Exit poll results show that PiS enjoys strong support among farmers (57.3% of votes), pensioners (42.6%) and workers (44.5%). At the same time, KO voters dominate among students (28.9%) and employees of the administration and service sector (31.8%).

Chairman Law and justice Jaroslaw Kaczynski, after the announcement of the exit poll results, said that his political force could win the parliamentary elections if they were held today, the PAP quoted him.

“Today’s victory should be considered as an encouragement – an encouragement to act decisively, more energetically, to expand our party, and also to create a great victory that will win, because Poland must be a country led of Polish patriots, honest people,” the PiS leader said.

It should be noted that the official results of voting in the elections of local authorities in Poland will be known no earlier than April 10.

Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party suffered an unprecedented defeat in the March 31 election from the country’s main opposition party. According to preliminary results, Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) fell behind the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in municipal elections for the first time in history.