Law and Justice candidate Andrzej Duda has won the second round of the presidential election in Poland, gaining 53 percent, according to an exit poll released by Ipsos at 10.30pm. 

Incumbent Bronisław Komorowski won 47 percent of the vote. According to the Ipsos exit poll, turnout stood at 56.1 percent, seven percent more than in the first round of the ballot. 

Duda began his political career in the early 2000s in the liberal democratic Freedom Union (Unia Wolności), switching to the conservative Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość – PiS) as an advisor after the parliamentary elections in 2005. In 2006 he became an undersecretary of state in the Justice Ministry under then-PiS MP Zbigniew Ziobro, going on to become an undersecretary of state in PiS-President Lech Kaczyński’s Presidential Chancellery in August 2008. Following the Smolensk air catastrophe in April 2010, in which President Lech Kaczyński and 95 other high-ranking Poles died, Duda resigned from his post on 5 July 2010 after the snap election won Bronisław Komorowski the presidency. 

Still acting president conceded defeat. Bronislaw Komorowski has congratulated his opponent with  victory.