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Turnout | 49.72% (first round) 11.36pp 50.98% (second round) | ||||||||||||||||
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Presidential elections were held in Poland on 9 October and 23 October 2005. The outgoing President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, had served two five-year terms and was unable to stand for a third term. Lech Kaczyński defeated Donald Tusk to become President of Poland.
The election took place just a month after PiS also defeated Tusk's Civic Platform in the parliamentary elections.