Poland Presidential Exit Polls Point to Center-Left Win
WARSAW—Exit polls showed a slim victory for the mayor of Warsaw to be Poland's next president, a result that would mark the latest rejection of the populist right in national races around the world.
Drawing the highest voter turnout in a presidential election since Poles cast off Communism in 1989, Rafal Trzaskowski received 50.3% of votes. Karol Nawrocki, supported by the former ruling nationalist Law and Justice Party, received 49.7% of ballots cast. The knife-edge result was well within the poll's margin of error of 2 percentage points.
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