2025 Polish presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Poland on 18 May 2025. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 1 June 2025. The outgoing president Andrzej Duda was ineligible for re-election. The election saw the largest number of candidates since the 1995 presidential election, with 13 candidates running for president. The second round was won by conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki who was backed by the Law and Justice (PiS) party.

The incumbent government supported candidate Rafał Trzaskowski, the Mayor of Warsaw and runner-up of the 2020 election, who came first in the first round of voting, followed by Nawrocki. The right-wing candidates, Nawrocki, Sławomir Mentzen (New Hope) and Grzegorz Braun of the Confederation of the Polish Crown overperformed polls, winning 29.5%, 14.8% and 6.3% respectively, coming in second, third and fourth. Centrist candidate Szymon Hołownia (PL2050) received 4.99% of the vote while the left-wing candidates together secured 10.18%, with coalition candidate Magdalena Biejat (The Left) coming below opposition Adrian Zandberg (Razem).

Nawrocki ran on a Christian nationalist and culturally conservative platform and against Donald Tusk's ruling coalition, demonstratively throwing a copy of Gender Queer: A Memoir into a paper shredder during the campaign. Nawrocki's platform called for significant government intervention in the economy, maintaining close ties between the Catholic Church in Poland and the Polish government, the broad criminalization of abortion, and opposition to the legalization of same-sex marriage or civil unions, citing the sexual ethics of the Catholic Church and protection of the family. Trzaskowski ran on economic liberalization, European integration, the broad legalization of abortion, the introduction of same sex civil unions, and a greater role for local governments in voivodeships. They differed on further strengthening relations with the European Union and Ukraine's membership in NATO, with Trzaskowski supporting both. Nawrocki opposed Ukraine's accession to NATO and strengthening of relations with the EU. Both, however, ran on pro-Western platforms.

The election result continued the trend of tighter electoral margins over the last 25 years becoming the closest in Polish history since the fall of the Polish People's Republic. Prior to the election, observers characterised a Nawrocki victory as hurting Donald Tusk's government, due to bills requiring 60% support in the Sejm in cases of a presidential veto. The results continued Law and Justice's streak of its aligned presidential candidates only losing one presidential election since its founding in 2001. The first-round results also showed a significant political strengthening of the nationalist Confederation Liberty and Independence. Exit polling indicated that younger voters were more likely to favor Nawrocki in the second round and other right-wing parties in the first; the far-right Confederation Liberty and Independence alliance had by far the best performance in its history and performed best among the youngest generation of Polish voters.