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The race between the ruling PiS party, and the main opposition coalition, KO, is too close to call, according to opinion polls. Three smaller parties — the far-right Confederation, centrist Third Way and the Left – will emerge as likely kingmakers

The ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) in Poland is leading the parliament elections but will fall short of a majority according to an exit poll.

If vote counting confirms the result, it would mark a dramatic change of direction after a very hard-fought election campaign.

Polls have closed in Poland and the ruling PiS looks set to be the largest party. However, both the largest parties seemed to claim victory in the minutes after the polls closed. What comes next is not yet clear.

According to an exit poll released after voting ended at 9 p.m. local time, Poland's opposition is set to win the country's general election. The Ipsos exit poll gave Poland's governing Law and Justice (PiS) party 36.8% of the vote, which would result in 200 seats in the 460-seat parliament. PiS is followed by the centrist Civic Coalition with 31.6%, the center-right Third Way with 13%, the New Left with 8.6%, and the far-right Confederation with 6.2%.

Poland’s election result is on a knife edge as an exit poll says that the governing Law and Justice party won the most votes. But the party lost support on Sunday compared to the last election. Opposition leader Donald Tusk meanwhile said a coalition of opposition parties had enough votes to win the election. The Ipsos exit poll suggested that the opposition together has likely won 248 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament. The projection said that Law and Justice obtained 200 seats ...

An exit poll has projected that Poland’s governing conservative party, Law and Justice, won more votes than any other single party in the country’s parliamentary election but lost some support

At stake are Poland's legal stance on LGBTQ+ rights and abortion, and the foreign alliances of a country that has been a crucial ally to Ukraine after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

Opposition leader Donald Tusk has a greater chance of forming a coalition if the poll is correct.

Voters in Poland were choosing on Sunday between the governing party and a coalition of opposition groups that accuse the conservative nationalists of eroding the country s 34-year-old democratic system.