2025 Polish presidential election

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Candidate Karol Nawrocki Rafał Trzaskowski Szymon Hołownia Party PiS[a] KO TD   Candidate Magdalena Biejat Sławomir Mentzen TBD Party NL[a] KWiN Razem   Candidate Marek Jakubiak Waldemar Witkowski Marek Woch Party WR UP BS

Incumbent President Andrzej Duda PiS

Presidential elections will be held in Poland on 4, 11, or 18 May 2025, though they can be held earlier should the office become vacated as a result of death, resignation or removal from office of the incumbent. Due to constitutional term limits limiting a president to serve only two terms, incumbent president Andrzej Duda is ineligible for re-election. Presidential elections in Poland must take place on a day free from work (Sunday or a holiday) between 75 and 100 days before the term ends.

The president is elected for a five-year term using the two-round system; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a run-off is held between the top two candidates. Presidents serve a five-year term and can be re-elected once. The second term of Andrzej Duda expires on 6 August 2025, and the president-elect will take the oath of office on that day, before the National Assembly (a joint session of Sejm and Senate).

Since December 2023 as a result of the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, Donald Tusk's cabinet, comprising of Civic Coalition, Poland 2050, the Polish People's Party, and the New Left, has been governing the country. Tusk's coalition does not have enough votes to bypass the presidential veto, for which it would need 276 votes.^[1]

Name	Born	Last position/job	Party
Magdalena Biejat	11 January 1982 (43) Warsaw, Masovian	Deputy Marshal of the Senate (2023–present) Member of the Sejm (2019–2023) Senator (2023–present)		New Left[a]
Szymon Hołownia	3 September 1976 (48) Białystok, Podlaskie	Marshal of the Sejm (2023–present) Member of the Sejm (2023–present) Leader of Poland 2050 (2021–present)		Third Way
Marek Jakubiak	30 April 1959 (66) Warsaw, Masovian	Leader of Federation for the Republic (2018–present) Member of the Sejm (2015–2019, 2023–present)		Free Republicans
Maciej Maciak	(53) Włocławek, Kuyavian-Pomeranian	Leader of the Prosperity and Peace Movement [pl] (2023–present)		Independent[b]
Sławomir Mentzen	20 November 1986 (38) Toruń, Kuyavian–Pomeranian	Chairman of New Hope (2022–present) Member of the Sejm (2023–present)		Confederation
Karol Nawrocki	3 March 1983 (42) Gdańsk, Pomerania	President of the Institute of National Remembrance (2021–present) Director of the Museum of the Second World War (2017–2021)		Law and Justice[a]
Krzysztof Stanowski	21 July 1982 (43) Warsaw, Masovian	Journalist, youtuber		Independent
Romuald Starosielec	21 September 1960 (64) Biała Podlaska, Lublin	Leader of Repair Poland (2023–present)		Repair Poland
Piotr Szumlewicz [pl]	19 March 1976 (49) Warsaw, Masovian	Leader of the Alternative Trade Union (2019–present)		Independent
Rafał Trzaskowski	17 January 1972 (53) Warsaw, Masovian	Mayor of Warsaw (2018–present) 2020 Polish presidential election second round		Civic Coalition[c]
Waldemar Witkowski	29 October 1953 (71) Poznań, Greater Poland	Leader of Labour Union (2006–present) Senator (2023–present)		Labour Union
Marek Woch	12 October 1978 (46) Kąkolewnica, Lublin	Leader of the Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy (2024–present)		Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy

• Adrian Zandberg – leader of Together Party, MP for Warsaw (2019–present)^[2]
• Maciej Konieczny – MP for Katowice (2019–present)^[3]
• Paulina Matysiak – MP for Sieradz [pl] (2019–present)^[4]

• Jan Hartman – philosopher and opinion journalist^[5]
• Sylwia Spurek – MEP for Greater Poland (2019–2024)^[6][7]

• Witold Bańka – President of WADA (2020–present), Minister of Sport and Tourism (2015–2019)^[8][9]

• Donald Tusk – Prime Minister (2007–2014, 2023–present), leader of Civic Platform, candidate for president in 2005^[10]
• Radosław Sikorski – Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007–2014, 2023–present), Marshal of the Sejm (2014–2015), Member of the European Parliament (2019–2023); lost to Rafał Trzaskowski in the primary elections^[11]

• Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense (2023–present), leader of Polish People's Party, candidate for president in 2020^[12][13]

• Dorota Gawryluk [pl] – journalist^[14]
• Lieutenant Colonel Jacek Siewiera – head of National Security Bureau (2022–present)^[15]
• General Rajmund Andrzejczak – Chief of the General Staff of Polish Armed Forces (2018–2023)^[16]

Sławomir Mentzen was the first candidate to begin an electoral campaign on 31 August 2024, drawing criticism and accusations of illegality from politicians of other parties for its early start.^[17] Marshal of the Sejm Szymon Hołownia from the Poland 2050 party declared his candidacy on 13 November.^[18] The Civic Coalition selected its candidate in a presidential primary on 22 November after Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski challenged presumptive nominee, Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski, who was the Civic Coalition's 2020 presidential candidate.^[19] Following the Civic Coalition primary, Institute of National Remembrance chairman Karol Nawrocki was endorsed by the Law and Justice party on 24 November as an officially independent candidate, as he never belonged to any political party.^[20] Speculation swiftly began on whether PiS would replace Nawrocki when it was revealed that he had contact with a future criminal as part of his time as a boxer two decades prior, for which he was constantly attacked by opposing politicians.^[21] Polling showed, however, that the vast plurality of people did not expect Nawrocki to be replaced.^[22]

The second round of the election is, according to polls, expected to be contested by Nawrocki and Trzaskowski.

The results of the election will be published by the National Electoral Commission following their conclusion.