The American Polonia mostly voted in the first round of presidential elections at Karol Nawrocki, which obtained 42.3 percent of the votes. RafaĆ Trzaskowski won less than 30 percent of the votes. The candidate of the Civic Coalition won definitely among the Polish diaspora voting in the East Asia region and the Pacific, obtaining 40 % support.
After counting the data from all 57 circuits in the United States, Karol Nawrocki received 16.1 out of 38,000 votes cast (42.3 percent), Trzaskowski – 11.4 thousand (29.9 percent), while in third place Grzegorz Braun from 4,714 votes (12.4 percent) was in third place. SĆawomir Mentzen (7.2 percent) came fourth, while the rest of the candidates won less than a thousand votes: Magdalena Biejat 845 (2.2 percent), Adrian Zandberg 817 (2.1 percent), and Szymon HoĆownia 641 (1.7 percent). The other candidates received less than 1 percent of votes.
The result of a candidate supported by PiS among American Polonia is slightly worse than that obtained by Andrzej Duda in 2020 (50.7 percent), but better than the result of Law and Justice in the elections to the Sejm in 2023 (40 percent). The results were published shortly after the vote in Poland; In the United States and other countries of the Western hemisphere was voted on Saturday.
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Nawrocki before Trzaskowski in the USA
Compared to 2023, five thousand fewer people voted in the first round of presidential elections. In 2020, the number of voters was 28,000, it is 10,000 less, although at that time the US elections were held in a correspondence manner due to pandemic.
In the largest American region, in Passaic near New York, New Jersey, 1780 people voted, in the vast majority of Nawrocki (911 against 417 votes for Trzaskowski). According to tradition, the PiS candidate had the greatest support among the voters in Chicago and the surrounding area, slightly smaller in the vicinity of New York, while in the west and south of the country and in Washington Trzaskowski had an advantage.
Trzaskowski wins in Asia
RafaĆ Trzaskowski won among the Polish community voting in the region of East Asia and Southeast and Pacific. He obtained over 40 % support. The KO candidate received over 50 percent of votes in Singapore, India and New Zealand. In China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Pakistan and Thailand, he gained support from 34.4 – 48 percent.
The smallest percentage of voters voted for the KO candidate in Taiwan – 27.5 percent, although he also took first place here. The second, Adrian Zandberg, won 24 percent of the votes there. Zandberg gave way to Trzaskowski in five other countries, where he obtained support oscillating around 16.6 – 24.4 percent.
RafaĆ TrzaskowskiPiotr Polak/PAP/EPA
Supported by PiS Karol Nawrocki took second place in Australia and the Philippines, winning about 17 percent of Polonia's votes. In other countries he was in further positions with support in the 3.7 – 7.7 percent, except for Pakistan, where he did not receive any voice.
SĆawomir Mentzen also occupied second places in three countries – with support from 14 – 27.6 percent, and Magdalena Biejat, also in three countries, gaining 11.5 – 14.7 percent of votes.
The highest, 100 % turnout was recorded in the electoral region in Malaysia, where all of the 149 registered people voted. In other countries, the attendance was from 96.67 percent in Pakistan to 84.48 percent in Indonesia.
Source of the main photo: Leszek SzymaĆski/PAP