Counting Poland's votes to local government

An average turnout of 45% is being reported from yesterday's national elections to Poland's local government bodies. Poles were voting for some 47 thousand councillors and more than 8 thousand mayors and city presidents, elected for a 4-year term.

Initial results show that the ruling Law and Justice party performed well in rural districts though lost the race in the majority of the large urban centres. A second round of elections is faced by the Polish capital, Warsaw, where the Law and Justice candidate, ex-prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, failed to gather the required majority over Civic Platform's Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.

Elected in the first round were among others presidents in Gdańsk - Paweł Bogdan Adamowicz (Civic Platform) and Wrocław – Rafał Dutkiewicz, running with his own committee, who collected more than 80% of votes.

The Polish Electoral Commission has said that the local government elections were "one of the quietest" ballots ever in Poland.
Source:polskieradio.pl