Run-off Looms in Poland’s Presidential Elections

A woman casts her ballot in a polling station in Madrid during Poland's presidential elections. Photo by Getty Images

Poland's presidential election produced no clear winner Sunday, preliminary exit polls showed.

The leading candidate, interim President Bronislaw Komorowski, failed to garner more than 50 percent of the vote, which would have clinched victory in the first round of voting to replace President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash in April.

The election pitted Komorowski, the parliament speaker who has been acting president since the crash, against Kaczynski's twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

According to exit polls, Komorowski had 45.7 percent of the vote to Kaczynski's 33.2 percent. If those polls are accurate, a second round of voting will be needed to decide the winner. That election would likely take place July 4.

The two were among 10 candidates in the election originally planned for the autumn but brought forward after Kaczynski died.

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