1st LD: No candidate wins outright in first round of Poland's presidential election: exit polls

WARSAW, May 18 (Xinhua) -- No candidate secured more than 50 percent of vote in the first round of Poland's presidential election on Sunday, according to exit polls.

A runoff will be held on June 1 between ruling coalition candidate Rafal Trzaskowski and independent candidate Karol Nawrocki. The Ipsos exit polls showed that Trzaskowski garnered 30.8 percent of the vote, compared to Nawrocki's 29.1 percent.

The polling stations opened at 7 a.m. local time and close at 9 p.m. on Sunday.

Trzaskowski has served as the mayor of Warsaw since 2018. Nawrocki, a historian and head of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, is new to electoral politics, but has consistently ranked second in the polls. Enditem