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.

Karol Nawrocki, the right-wing candidate in Poland’s presidential runoff election, won on Sunday night and will be the country’s next president. Nawrocki defeated Rafał Trzaskowski by the slimmest of margins,

Poles awakened Monday to a clear albeit close result that returns a nationalist politician to the presidency who has pledged to hinder the centrist, pro-EU government for the remainder of its term.