Presidential elections were held in Poland on 25 November 1990, with a second round on 9 December. They were the first direct presidential elections in the history of Poland, and the first free presidential elections since the May Coup of 1926. Before World War II, presidents were elected by the Sejm. From 1952 to 1989—the bulk of the Communist era—the presidency did not exist as a separate institution, and most of its functions were fulfilled by the State Council of Poland, whose chairman was considered the equivalent of a president.

There were six candidates who successfully managed to register - Solidarity chairman Lech Wałęsa, Canadian entrepreneur Stanisław Tymiński, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Members of the Sejm Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz and Roman Bartoszcze, and anti-communist oppositionist Leszek Moczulski. Despite for a long time coming first in opinion polls, Tadeusz Mazowiecki's campaign failed to convince voters to his side, and he did not enter the runoff, coming third in the first round. Stanisław Tymiński came second in a large upset unforeseen by every political force in the country, and, being seen by other candidates as a liar and opportunist, managed to unite both the postcommunist and Solidarity establishments against him. In the second round, Wałęsa won almost 75% of the vote, the largest electoral victory for a free election in Polish political history.

Background

Fall of Communism

Following the Polish Round Table Agreement, universal parliamentary elections were held in Poland. They were the first free elections since 1928, and began the era of democratic and free market reforms in Poland, as the power of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) began quickly disintegrating - early next year, the party would dissolve, succeeded by the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland (SdRP), where most of the communist party's wealth was controversially transferred, and the short-lived Polish Social Democratic Union.

The last attempts at salvaging power by the PZPR was the appointment of Czesław Kiszczak as prime minister, who was first assigned the mission of forming a new government with 237 votes (and 173 against), but later, after a defection from ZSL and SD, his proposed government failed to receive the Sejm's confidence. Instead, Solidarity compromised with the communists in a historic compromise, wherein PZPR Chairman Wojciech Jaruzelski would be elected to the newly created position of president, while a Solidarity-aligned candidate - Tadeusz Mazowiecki - would become prime minister.

It was required to get 100,000 signatures to run in the election. Only six managed to get past the threshold of signatures - Lech Wałęsa, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Roman Bartoszcze, Leszek Moczulski and an unknown Canadian entrepreneur, However, SdRP sought to modernize its image away from the nomenklatura, and the speculated candidates were reaching the end points of their careers regardless. The General Secretary of SdRP, Leszek Miller, at first endorsed the nonpartisan Ombudsman Ewa Łętowska to be the party's candidate. However, she rejected the offer. As such, Miller endorsed SdRP chairman and future president Aleksander Kwaśniewski, who also rejected, knowing he would lose in a landslide and likely undermine his position in the party by doing so. Kwaśniewski controversially chose to endorse Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz instead, who was the leader of SdRP's parliamentary club. The Supreme Council of the party held a vote which confirmed Cimoszewicz's nomination, and he became the official candidate of the party in the presidential election. He returned to Poland to contest the presidential elections. He was the only candidate without any political party's backing who managed to cross the threshold of 100,000 signatures needed to contest the elections, in the meanwhile mass-distributing his political manifesto, "".

  • Jan Bratoszewski (Lawyer from Radom)
  • (Chairman of the )
  • Gabriel Janowski (Senator)
  • Janusz Korwin-Mikke (Chairman of the Real Politics Union)
  • (Machinist from Warsaw)
  • Kornel Morawiecki (Chairman of the )
  • Józef Onyszko (Chairman of the Association for the Development of Higher Consciousness "Refugium")
  • (Chairman of the Christian-Democratic Labour Party)
  • Bolesław Tejkowski (Chairman of the )
  • Waldemar Trajdos (Insurance worker from Łódź)

Campaign

thumb|Wałęsa's election poster

First round

While most voters generally believed the candidates they backed would do best to solve most of the country's issues, there were two major outliers - ~40% of voters believed Bartoszcze would best fix the country's agricultural problems, compared to his 7.15% general vote share, and ~20% of voters believed Moczulski would best deal with the communist nomenklatura and withdrawal from the Eastern bloc, compared to his 2.50% vote share.

Mazowiecki's starting situation was rather unfavorable. Despite holding control over TVP, the Polish national television, his team were inept and at utilizing such a vital campaign organ (which would provide tremendous help to every consecutive presidential candidate which controlled it). and his lack of oratory skills, combined with his preoccupation serving as prime minister, In some circles, Mazowiecki was accused of secretly having Jewish ancestry, a notion which he rejected and condemned. Meanwhile, Wałęsa insinuated Mazowiecki led an inactive, elite government that prided itself in the prestige of governance alone, contrasting it with proposed his model of real societal intervention.

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Second round candidate endorsements

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! colspan="2" | Candidate

! First round

! colspan="2" | Endorsement

|-

| style="background-color:#667191;" |

| Tadeusz Mazowiecki

| 18.08%

| style="background-color:#DD1D1A;" |

| Lech Wałęsa

|-

| style="background-color:#E2001A;" |

| Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz

| 9.21%

| style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" |

| colspan="2" | No endorsement

|-

| style="background-color: #1BB100;" |

| Roman Bartoszcze

| 7.15%

| style="background-color:#DD1D1A;" |

| Lech Wałęsa

|-

| style="background-color: #333300;" |

| Leszek Moczulski

| 2.50%

| style="background-color:#DD1D1A;" |

| Lech Wałęsa

|}

Opinion polls

First round

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%; line-height:14px;"

|-

! rowspan="3" |Pollster

! rowspan="3" |Date of polling

! colspan="6" |Final candidates

! colspan="6" |Potential candidates

! rowspan="3" |Others and<br />Undecideds

|-

! style="width:60px;" | Wałęsa<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Tymiński<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Mazowiecki<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Cimoszewicz<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Bartoszcze<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Moczulski<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Skubiszewski<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Geremek<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Jaruzelski<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Brzeziński<br />

! style="width:60px;" | Baka<br />

! style="width:60px;" | <br />

|-

| style="background:;" |

| style="background:;" |

| style="background:#667191;" |

| style="background:#E2001A;" |

| style="background:;" |

| style="background:;" |

| style="background:;" |

| style="background:#CC1F27;" |

| style="background:;" |

| style="background:;" |

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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Election results

| 25 November 1990

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 39.96

| style="background:#DBDBDB; color:black;" | 23.10

| 18.08

| 9.21

| 7.15

| 2.50

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

|-

| colspan="15" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|CBOS

| 22–23 November 1990

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 33

| 18

| style="background:#98A3C3; color:black;" | 27

| 10

| 9

| 3

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|CBOS

| 17–18 November 1990

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 27

| style="background:#DBDBDB; color:black;" | 20

| 17

| 5

| 6

| 1

|

|

|

|

|

|

| 24

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|CBOS

| 10–11 November 1990

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 30.5

| 12.6

| style="background:#98A3C3; color:black;" | 20.6

| 5.8

| 7.6

| 1.9

|

|

|

|

|

|

| 21.0

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|OBOP

| 23–24 October 1990

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 33

|

| style="background:#98A3C3; color:black;" | 28

| 2

| 3

| 1

|

|

|

|

|

|

| 33

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|CBOS

| 17–23 October 1990

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 33.2

|

| style="background:#98A3C3; color:black;" | 41.8

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

| 20.3

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|CBOS

| 11–16 October 1990

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 27.3

|

| style="background:#98A3C3; color:black;" | 39.8

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

| 27.7

|-

| colspan="15" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Election called by Sejm Marshal Mikołaj Kozakiewicz (2 October 1990)

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|CBOS

| September 1990

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 17.8

|

| style="background:#98A3C3; color:black;" | 15.8

|

|

|

| 8.9

| 8.5

| 6.8

|

|

|

| 42.2

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|CBOS

| June 1990

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 15.6

|

| style="background:#98A3C3; color:black;" | 18.0

|

|

|

|

| 9.2

| 11.9

|

|

|

| 45.3

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|CBOS

| May 1990

| 16.1

|

| style="background:#98A3C3; color:black;" | 23.9

|

|

|

|

| style="background:#FF565F; color:white;" | 18.7

| 16.6

| 4.6

| 1.9

| 1.7

| 16.5

|-

| colspan="15" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes Prime Minister of Poland (24 August 1989)

|-

| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|CBOS

| May 1989

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 18.7

|

| 2.3

|

|

|

|

| 7.7

| style="background:#F1A08D;" | 18.5

|

| 2.7

|

| 50.1

|-

! colspan=15| Sources:

|}

Second round

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%; line-height:14px;"

|-

! rowspan="2" style="width:200px;" | Polling firm/Link

! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="date" | Fieldwork<br />date

! rowspan="2" style="width:20px;" | Sample<br/>size

! Wałęsa<br />

! Tymiński<br />

! rowspan="2" | Don't know

! rowspan="2" | Lead

|-

| style="background:;" |

| style="background:;" |

|- style="background:#EFEFEF; font-weight:bold;"

| 1990 presidential election

|

| 14,650,037

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 74.25

| 25.75

|

| style="background:; color:white;" | 48.50

|-

| OBOP

| 3–4 Dec

| 1,000

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 73

| 18

| 11

| style="background:; color:white;" | 55

|-

| Demoskop

| 4 Dec

| 1,000

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 61

| 20

|

| style="background:; color:white;" | 41

|-

| CBOS

| 1–3 Dec

| 1,500

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 58

| 23

|

| style="background:; color:white;" | 35

|-

| OBOP

| 26–27 Nov

| 1,000

| style="background:#FF4F4C; color:white;" | 58

| 30

| 12

| style="background:; color:white;" | 28

|}

A second-round poll by "Biuro Badan Społecznych 'Wika'" for "Fundacja Radia 'Solidarność'" among 500 respondents showed that 68% would vote for Wałęsa, and 14% for Tymiński in the city of Warsaw.

Results

Results by voivodeship

First round

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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"

!

! align=center colspan=2 | Lech Wałęsa

! align=center colspan=2 | Stanisław Tymiński

! align=center colspan=2 | Tadeusz Mazowiecki

! align=center colspan=2 | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz

! align=center colspan=2 | Roman Bartoszcze

! align=center colspan=2 | Leszek Moczulski

! align=center colspan=2 | Turnout

|-

! align=center | Voivodeship

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Bialskopodlaskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 52&nbsp;282||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 41.47%||26&nbsp;063||20.69%||8509||6.75%||12&nbsp;694||10.08%||23&nbsp;410||18.58%||3034||2.41%||128&nbsp;597||59.64%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Białostockie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 127&nbsp;538||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 42.50%||36&nbsp;046||12.01%||38&nbsp;948||12.98%||81&nbsp;581||27.18%||11&nbsp;703||3.90%||4302||1.43%||304&nbsp;822||60.95%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Bielskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 185&nbsp;832||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 45.08%||88&nbsp;756||21.53%||81&nbsp;447||19.76%||28&nbsp;116||6.82%||16&nbsp;156||3.92%||11&nbsp;904||2.89%||418&nbsp;863||66.44%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Bydgoskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 156&nbsp;971||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 31.13%||139&nbsp;964||27.75%||93&nbsp;102||18.46%||65&nbsp;339||12.96%||35&nbsp;587||7.06%||13&nbsp;333||2.64%||511&nbsp;426||64.91%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Chełmskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 39&nbsp;427||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 39.66%||21&nbsp;137||21.26%||7316||7.36%||12&nbsp;753||12.83%||15&nbsp;822||15.92%||2960||2.98%||101&nbsp;423||58.00%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Ciechanowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 62&nbsp;022||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 36.19%||55&nbsp;698||32.50%||11&nbsp;657||6.80%||17&nbsp;549||10.24%||21&nbsp;655||12.63%||2809||1.64%||174&nbsp;872||57.67%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Częstochowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 129&nbsp;514||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 37.23%||111&nbsp;135||31.95%||48&nbsp;631||13.98%||25&nbsp;045||7.20%||22&nbsp;514||6.47%||11&nbsp;035||3.17%||353&nbsp;503||62.57%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Elbląskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 61&nbsp;021||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 31.66%||60&nbsp;315||31.29%||32&nbsp;995||17.12%||19&nbsp;632||10.19%||14&nbsp;317||7.43%||4471||2.32%||195&nbsp;531||59.52%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Gdańskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 336&nbsp;893||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 52.28%||92&nbsp;965||14.43%||142&nbsp;382||22.09%||38&nbsp;454||5.97%||19&nbsp;031||2.95%||14&nbsp;721||2.28%||652&nbsp;487||63.23%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Gorzowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 60&nbsp;605||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 29.79%||54&nbsp;423||26.75%||46&nbsp;027||22.63%||24&nbsp;394||11.99%||13&nbsp;294||6.54%||4671||2.30%||206&nbsp;749||59.86%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Jeleniogórskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 75&nbsp;148||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 34.17%||60&nbsp;760||27.63%||47&nbsp;264||21.49%||21&nbsp;851||9.94%||8907||4.05%||5695||2.59%||223&nbsp;073||60.44%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Kaliskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 101&nbsp;245||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 31.43%||87&nbsp;936||27.30%||54&nbsp;180||16.82%||36&nbsp;296||11.27%||35&nbsp;514||11.03%||6929||2.15%||328&nbsp;596||65.56%

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| align=left style="background: #DBDBDB" |Katowickie || 505&nbsp;891||30.99%||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 507&nbsp;737||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 31.10%||398&nbsp;627||24.42%||126&nbsp;869||7.77%||31&nbsp;294||1.92%||62&nbsp;144||3.81%||1&nbsp;653&nbsp;252||57.35%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Kieleckie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 159&nbsp;472||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 34.40%||121&nbsp;537||26.22%||50&nbsp;855||10.97%||51&nbsp;542||11.12%||68&nbsp;231||14.72%||11&nbsp;889||2.56%||471&nbsp;818||57.72%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Konińskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 72&nbsp;753||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 37.60%||53&nbsp;835||27.82%||17&nbsp;980||9.29%||19&nbsp;606||10.13%||25&nbsp;389||13.12%||3928||2.03%||197&nbsp;597||60.33%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Koszalińskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 65&nbsp;093||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 31.04%||60&nbsp;344||28.78%||42&nbsp;259||20.15%||22&nbsp;809||10.88%||14&nbsp;244||6.79%||4935||2.35%||212&nbsp;909||59.08%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Krakowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 279&nbsp;192||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 51.16%||55&nbsp;028||10.08%||138&nbsp;548||25.39%||29&nbsp;129||5.34%||27&nbsp;204||4.99%||16&nbsp;588||3.04%||553&nbsp;360||60.34%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Krośnieńskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 107&nbsp;217||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 50.84%||45&nbsp;066||21.37%||20&nbsp;843||9.88%||13&nbsp;395||6.35%||18&nbsp;792||8.91%||5581||2.65%||215&nbsp;345||63.59%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Legnickie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 69&nbsp;695||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 33.03%||68&nbsp;280||32.36%||39&nbsp;269||18.61%||17&nbsp;407||8.25%||11&nbsp;241||5.33%||5093||2.41%||213&nbsp;672||61.11%

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| align=left style="background: #DBDBDB" |Leszczyńskie || 43&nbsp;702||24.76%||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 50&nbsp;560||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 28.65%||35&nbsp;652||20.20%||20&nbsp;999||11.90%||21&nbsp;951||12.44%||3607||2.04%||180&nbsp;145||67.79%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Lubelskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 197&nbsp;696||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 46.65%||74&nbsp;559||17.60%||49&nbsp;087||11.58%||39&nbsp;274||9.27%||50&nbsp;392||11.89%||12&nbsp;742||3.01%||430&nbsp;191||58.47%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Łomżyńskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 71&nbsp;263||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 50.64%||35&nbsp;792||25.43%||9367||6.66%||9&nbsp;410||6.69%||12&nbsp;294||8.74%||2597||1.85%||143&nbsp;511||59.29%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Łódzkie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 233&nbsp;992||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 43.57%||112&nbsp;805||21.00%||105&nbsp;606||19.66%||59&nbsp;878||11.15%||11&nbsp;045||2.05%||13&nbsp;745||2.60%||543&nbsp;442||58.76%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Nowosądeckie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 181&nbsp;783||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 62.29%||32&nbsp;919||11.28%||36&nbsp;989||12.68%||12&nbsp;448||4.27%||20&nbsp;791||7.12%||6880||2.36%||299&nbsp;202||63.39%

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| align=left style="background: #DBDBDB" |Olsztyńskie || 92&nbsp;944||30.63%||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 102&nbsp;684||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 33.84%||45&nbsp;279||14.92%||34&nbsp;570||11.39%||20&nbsp;966||6.91%||6930||2.28%||307&nbsp;981||59.94%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Opolskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 140&nbsp;073||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 37.53%||79&nbsp;064||21.19%||89&nbsp;437||23.97%||30&nbsp;618||8.20%||23&nbsp;432||6.28%||10&nbsp;560||2.83%||381&nbsp;093||53.28%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Ostrołęckie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 70&nbsp;353||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 44.70%||48&nbsp;092||30.56%||9&nbsp;743||6.19%||11&nbsp;790||7.49%||14&nbsp;955||9.50%||2456||1.56%||160&nbsp;727||58.48%

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| align=left style="background: #DBDBDB" |Pilskie || 53&nbsp;725||25.24%||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 56&nbsp;799||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 26.69%||47&nbsp;236||22.19%||27&nbsp;662||13.00%||22&nbsp;004||10.34%||5416||2.54%||217&nbsp;158||66.16%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Piotrkowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 115&nbsp;914||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 43.47%||66&nbsp;287||24.86%||24&nbsp;931||9.35%||24&nbsp;038||9.01%||29&nbsp;057||10.90%||6431||2.41%||271&nbsp;662||59.04%

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| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Płockie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 76&nbsp;614||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 35.55%||72&nbsp;649||33.71%||20&nbsp;244||9.39%||20&nbsp;170||9.36%||21&nbsp;839||10.13%||4005||1.86%||219&nbsp;346||59.25%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Poznańskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 197&nbsp;630||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 32.21%||129&nbsp;252||21.06%||181&nbsp;136||29.52%||60&nbsp;490||9.86%||31&nbsp;902||5.20%||13&nbsp;181||2.15%||662&nbsp;620||68.59%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Przemyskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 81&nbsp;624||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 48.17%||28&nbsp;372||16.74%||17&nbsp;667||10.43%||10&nbsp;992||6.49%||26&nbsp;999||15.93%||3791||2.24%||173&nbsp;296||61.24%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Radomskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 152&nbsp;944||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 50.54%||54&nbsp;236||17.92%||23&nbsp;905||7.90%||27&nbsp;348||9.04%||37&nbsp;999||12.56%||6180||2.04%||308&nbsp;171||58.35%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Rzeszowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 173&nbsp;174||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 54.89%||57&nbsp;114||18.10%||31&nbsp;823||10.09%||18&nbsp;144||5.75%||27&nbsp;056||8.58%||8162||2.59%||321&nbsp;604||65.43%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Siedleckie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 121&nbsp;738||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 46.05%||67&nbsp;360||25.48%||14&nbsp;581||5.52%||17&nbsp;616||6.66%||39&nbsp;005||14.76%||4048||1.53%||269&nbsp;980||59.09%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Sieradzkie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 59&nbsp;523||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 33.87%||51&nbsp;317||29.20%||16&nbsp;144||9.18%||17&nbsp;923||10.20%||27&nbsp;278||15.52%||3580||2.04%||178&nbsp;951||60.82%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Skierniewickie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 69&nbsp;464||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 41.03%||47&nbsp;148||27.85%||15&nbsp;226||8.99%||13&nbsp;659||8.07%||20&nbsp;390||12.05%||3392||2.00%||172&nbsp;273||56.54%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Słupskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 49&nbsp;230||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 30.36%||47&nbsp;055||29.02%||31&nbsp;426||19.38%||18&nbsp;063||11.14%||12&nbsp;465||7.69%||3919||2.42%||164&nbsp;513||58.37%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Suwalskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 65&nbsp;759||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 37.50%||50&nbsp;918||29.04%||19&nbsp;165||10.93%||19&nbsp;738||11.26%||15&nbsp;418||8.79%||4345||2.48%||178&nbsp;247||55.52%

|-

| align=left style="background: #BDC2D1" |Szczecińskie ||116&nbsp;800||28.16%||105&nbsp;900||25.53%||style="background: #BDC2D1;" | 117&nbsp;949||style="background: #BDC2D1;" |28.43%||40&nbsp;950||9.87%||17&nbsp;528||4.23%||15&nbsp;689||3.78%||420&nbsp;358||59.66%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Tarnobrzeskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 108&nbsp;572||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 44.81%||60&nbsp;424||24.94%||16&nbsp;819||6.94%||18&nbsp;329||7.56%||32&nbsp;523||13.42%||5652||2.33%||247&nbsp;946||59.54%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Tarnowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 149&nbsp;958||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 53.09%||35&nbsp;320||12.50%||40&nbsp;379||14.29%||13&nbsp;095||4.64%||36&nbsp;323||12.86%||7395||2.62%||289&nbsp;500||63.47%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Toruńskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 82&nbsp;818||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 29.34%||76&nbsp;516||27.11%||54&nbsp;443||19.29%||29&nbsp;038||10.29%||22&nbsp;971||8.14%||6488||2.30%||286&nbsp;002||60.56%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Wałbrzyskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 107&nbsp;837||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 33.95%||95&nbsp;839||30.17%||61&nbsp;449||19.34%||31&nbsp;413||9.89%||13&nbsp;212||4.16%||7920||2.49%||321&nbsp;802||59.76%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Warszawskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 651&nbsp;947||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 50.67%||162&nbsp;761||12.65%||321&nbsp;571||24.99%||108&nbsp;593||8.44%||21&nbsp;148||1.64%||20&nbsp;632||1.60%||1&nbsp;296&nbsp;644||64.28%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Włocławskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 59&nbsp;274||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 33.87%||43&nbsp;810||25.03%||18&nbsp;621||10.64%||24&nbsp;967||14.27%||24&nbsp;310||13.89%||4037||2.31%||178&nbsp;032||57.33%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Wrocławskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 209&nbsp;984||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 42.14%||101&nbsp;738||20.42%||118&nbsp;987||23.88%||36&nbsp;444||7.31%||20&nbsp;835||4.18%||10&nbsp;314||2.07%||503&nbsp;886||60.28%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Zamojskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 94&nbsp;896||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 45.52%||32&nbsp;198||15.44%||10&nbsp;568||5.07%||16&nbsp;669||8.00%||49&nbsp;483||23.74%||4659||2.23%||212&nbsp;700||60.23%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Zielonogórskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 80&nbsp;527||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 29.08%||71&nbsp;092||25.68%||66&nbsp;995||24.20%||35&nbsp;236||12.73%||16&nbsp;299||5.89%||6741||2.43%||281&nbsp;575||61.03%

|-

!Poland||6&nbsp;569&nbsp;889||39.96%||3&nbsp;797&nbsp;605||23.10%||2&nbsp;973&nbsp;364||18.08%||1&nbsp;514&nbsp;025||9.21%||1&nbsp;176&nbsp;175||7.15%||411&nbsp;516||2.50%||16&nbsp;702&nbsp;000||60.63%

|}</div>

Second round

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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"

|-

! rowspan=3 class="unsortable" | Voivodeship

! align=center colspan=2 class="unsortable"| Lech Wałęsa

! align=center colspan=2 class="unsortable"| Stanisław Tymiński

! align=center colspan=2 class="unsortable"| Turnout

|-

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Bialskopodlaskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 80 104||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 69.30%||35&nbsp;482||30.70%||118&nbsp;082||54.78%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Białostockie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 188 571||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 70.15%||80&nbsp;227||29.85%||274&nbsp;946||54.92%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Bielskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 305&nbsp;052||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 82.83%||63&nbsp;246||17.17%||377&nbsp;061||59.79%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Bydgoskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 275&nbsp;401||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 64.79%||149&nbsp;691||35.21%||437&nbsp;758||55.50%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Chełmskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 56&nbsp;915||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 64.36%||31&nbsp;514||35.64%||90&nbsp;761||51.84%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Ciechanowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 90&nbsp;872||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 58.90%||63&nbsp;413||41.10%||158&nbsp;171||59.64%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Częstochowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 204&nbsp;654||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 69.62%||89&nbsp;308||30.38%||300&nbsp;790||53.13%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Elbląskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 102&nbsp;564||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 64.24%||57&nbsp;094||35.76%||163&nbsp;919||49.82%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Gdańskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 516&nbsp;061||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 87.38%||74&nbsp;502||12.62%||603&nbsp;571||58.64%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Gorzowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 103&nbsp;823||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 62.67%||61&nbsp;854||37.33%||170&nbsp;389||49.26%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Jeleniogórskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 129&nbsp;956||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 71.31%||52&nbsp;294||28.69%||186&nbsp;722||50.50%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Kaliskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 181&nbsp;833||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 65.68%||95&nbsp;014||34.32%||286&nbsp;182||57.01%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Katowickie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 956&nbsp;837||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 72.29%||366&nbsp;854||27.71%||1&nbsp;354&nbsp;201||46.84%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Kieleckie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 262&nbsp;315||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 64.33%||145&nbsp;431||35.67%||417.763||51.11%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Konińskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 104&nbsp;773||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 61.43%||65&nbsp;796||38.57%||175&nbsp;502||53.40%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Koszalińskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 108&nbsp;560||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 62.51%||65&nbsp;107||37.49%||178&nbsp;432||49.43%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Krakowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 476&nbsp;313||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 90.20%||51&nbsp;776||9.80%||536&nbsp;484||58.47%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Krośnieńskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 160&nbsp;548||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 80.61%||38&nbsp;621||19.39%||203&nbsp;382||60.04%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Legnickie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 121&nbsp;855||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 69.37%||53&nbsp;804||30.63%||179&nbsp;582||51.07%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Leszczyńskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 89&nbsp;871||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 61.17%||57&nbsp;046||38.83%||153&nbsp;033||57.56%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Lubelskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 295&nbsp;261||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 76.74%||89&nbsp;482||23.26%||392&nbsp;638||53.25%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Łomżyńskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 99&nbsp;297||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 75.23%||32&nbsp;700||24.77%||135&nbsp;115||55.77%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Łódzkie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 355&nbsp;954||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 79.27%||93&nbsp;066||20.73%||459&nbsp;352||49.54%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Nowosądeckie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 275&nbsp;564||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 90.87%||27&nbsp;690||9.13%||309&nbsp;255||65.24%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Olsztyńskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 149&nbsp;930||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 59.02%||104&nbsp;013||40.98%||260&nbsp;642||50.71%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Opolskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 256&nbsp;800||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 79.11%||67&nbsp;827||20.89%||332&nbsp;975||46.47%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Ostrołęckie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 101&nbsp;552||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 69.84%||43&nbsp;858||30.16%||149&nbsp;211||54.22%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Pilskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 107&nbsp;838||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 61.50%||67&nbsp;680||37.50%||182&nbsp;875||55.67%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Piotrkowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 169&nbsp;357||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 72.27%||64&nbsp;969||27.73%||240&nbsp;005||52.12%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Płockie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 112&nbsp;838||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 59.10%||78&nbsp;014||40.90%||195&nbsp;468||52.74%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Poznańskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 382&nbsp;219||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 74.63%||129&nbsp;938||25.37%||528&nbsp;198||54.59%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Przemyskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 130&nbsp;479||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 79.68%||33&nbsp;267||20.32%||167&nbsp;204||59.15%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Radomskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 220&nbsp;865||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 77.94%||62&nbsp;504||22.06%||289&nbsp;628||54.76%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Rzeszowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 258&nbsp;060||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 85.72%||42&nbsp;988||14.28%||307&nbsp;736||62.54%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Siedleckie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 177&nbsp;957||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 72.88%||66&nbsp;208||27.12%||250&nbsp;088||54.68%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Sieradzkie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 91&nbsp;549||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 60.30%||60&nbsp;266||39.70%||156&nbsp;131||53.07%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Skierniewickie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 102&nbsp;184||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 69.28%||45&nbsp;316||30.72%||150&nbsp;903||49.52%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Słupskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 84&nbsp;707||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 63.07%||49&nbsp;595||36.93%||138&nbsp;066||48.83%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Suwalskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 99&nbsp;102||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 63.15%||57&nbsp;820||36.85%||160&nbsp;537||49.91%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Szczecińskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 219&nbsp;562||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 66.68%||109&nbsp;729||33.32%||337&nbsp;521||59.64%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Tarnobrzeskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 157&nbsp;460||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 70.24%||66&nbsp;721||29.76%||229&nbsp;101||55.15%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Tarnowskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 248&nbsp;366||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 89.13%||30&nbsp;277||10.87%||284&nbsp;546||62.24%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Toruńskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 160&nbsp;867||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 67.84%||76&nbsp;269||32.16%||243&nbsp;055||51.28%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Wałbrzyskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 187&nbsp;643||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 70.53%||78&nbsp;410||29.47%||271&nbsp;734||50.39%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Warszawskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 913&nbsp;625||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 86.87%||138&nbsp;106||13.13%||1&nbsp;072&nbsp;542||57.02%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Włocławskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 92&nbsp;783||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 59.33%||63&nbsp;609||40.67%||160&nbsp;203||51.42%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Wrocławskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 364&nbsp;119||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 82.72%||76&nbsp;142||17.28%||448&nbsp;912||53.63%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Zamojskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 143&nbsp;161||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 72.95%||53&nbsp;090||27.05%||200&nbsp;474||56.76%

|-

| align=left style="background: #FF8F9B" |Zielonogórskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 146&nbsp;919||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 66.06%||75&nbsp;470||33.94%||229&nbsp;191||49.65%

|-

!Poland||10&nbsp;622&nbsp;696||74.25%||3&nbsp;683&nbsp;098||25.75%||14&nbsp;650&nbsp;037||53.40%

|}</div>

Notional results by modern voivodeship

The following notional results have been calculated by amalgamating the gmina-level results according to their inclusion in the Voivodeships of Poland created in the .

First round

350px|thumb|Map of the notional results for the first round, by modern-day Voivodeship.

<div style="overflow:auto">

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"

!

! align=center colspan=2 | Lech Wałęsa

! align=center colspan=2 | Stanisław Tymiński

! align=center colspan=2 | Tadeusz Mazowiecki

! align=center colspan=2 | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz

! align=center colspan=2 | Roman Bartoszcze

! align=center colspan=2 | Leszek Moczulski

! align=center colspan=2 | Turnout

|-

! align=center | Voivodeship

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Lower Silesian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 452&nbsp;169||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 36.83%||324&nbsp;358||26.42%||259&nbsp;881||21.17%||106&nbsp;059||8.64%||56&nbsp;856||4.63%||28&nbsp;401||2.31%||1&nbsp;243&nbsp;375||60.32%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Kuyavian-Pomeranian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 287&nbsp;450||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 31.98%||241&nbsp;932||26.92%||155&nbsp;677||17.32%||113&nbsp;973||12.68%||77&nbsp;606||8.64%||22&nbsp;069||2.46%||911&nbsp;329||61.78%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Lublin || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 409&nbsp;809||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 44.59%||168&nbsp;208||18.30%||77&nbsp;999||8.49%||85&nbsp;563||9.31%||152&nbsp;877||16.63%||24&nbsp;589||2.68%||935&nbsp;794||58.76%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Lubusz || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 124&nbsp;253||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 30.21%||103&nbsp;617||25.19%||98&nbsp;246||23.89%||51&nbsp;650||12.56%||23&nbsp;680||5.76%||9&nbsp;835||2.39%||417&nbsp;867||60.45%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Łódź || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 490&nbsp;593||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 40.86%||296&nbsp;894||24.73%||163&nbsp;663||13.63%||120&nbsp;851||10.07%||100&nbsp;366||8.36%||28&nbsp;296||2.36%||1&nbsp;219&nbsp;497||59.13%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Lesser Poland || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 694&nbsp;201||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 51.29%||190&nbsp;174||14.05%||255&nbsp;780||18.90%||73&nbsp;450||5.43%||100&nbsp;114||7.40%||39&nbsp;795||2.94%||1&nbsp;379&nbsp;631||62.38%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Masovian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 1&nbsp;070&nbsp;230||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 48.28%||422&nbsp;107||19.04%||358&nbsp;078||16.15%||190&nbsp;647||8.60%||139&nbsp;504||6.29%||36&nbsp;084||1.63%||2&nbsp;246&nbsp;781||60.76%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Opole || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 148&nbsp;259||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 37.02%||88&nbsp;171||22.02%||93&nbsp;937||23.46%||32&nbsp;523||8.12%||26&nbsp;288||6.56%||11&nbsp;293||2.82%||408&nbsp;952||53.23%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Subcarpathian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 471&nbsp;094||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 51.33%||181&nbsp;715||19.80%||97&nbsp;540||10.63%||56&nbsp;708||6.18%||87&nbsp;755||9.56%||22&nbsp;986||2.50%||936&nbsp;318||63.71%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Podlaskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 232&nbsp;716||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 44.40%||93&nbsp;199||17.78%||57&nbsp;396||10.95%||100&nbsp;116||19.10%||31&nbsp;862||6.08%||8&nbsp;891||1.70%||532&nbsp;931||59.49%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Pomeranian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 421&nbsp;865||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 45.98%||173&nbsp;191||18.88%||193&nbsp;212||21.06%||67&nbsp;289||7.33%||40&nbsp;365||4.40%||21&nbsp;627||2.36%||929&nbsp;522||62.14%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Silesian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 700&nbsp;182||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 33.60%||621&nbsp;955||29.85%||479&nbsp;768||23.03%||157&nbsp;658||7.57%||49&nbsp;753||2.39%||74&nbsp;305||3.57%||2&nbsp;110&nbsp;856||58.87%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Świętokrzyskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 186&nbsp;972||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 34.87%||141&nbsp;369||26.36%||54&nbsp;637||10.19%||59&nbsp;355||11.07%||80&nbsp;427||15.00%||13&nbsp;455||2.51%||546&nbsp;265||57.31%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #DBDBDB" | Warmian-Masurian || 170&nbsp;742||31.51%||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 180&nbsp;609||style="background: #DBDBDB;" | 33.33%||77&nbsp;931||14.38%||60&nbsp;583||11.18%||39&nbsp;488||7.29%||12&nbsp;591||2.32%||550&nbsp;667||59.60%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Greater Poland || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 453&nbsp;739||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 30.79%||368&nbsp;979||25.04%||330&nbsp;964||22.46%||159&nbsp;467||10.82%||128&nbsp;698||8.73%||31&nbsp;830||2.16%||1&nbsp;500&nbsp;420||65.00%

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| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | West Pomeranian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 201&nbsp;361||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 28.83%||188&nbsp;245||26.95%||174&nbsp;333||24.96%||73&nbsp;593||10.53%||38&nbsp;540||5.52%||22&nbsp;490||3.22%||708&nbsp;532||59.08%

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!Poland||6&nbsp;569&nbsp;889||39.96%||3&nbsp;797&nbsp;605||23.10%||2&nbsp;973&nbsp;364||18.08%||1&nbsp;514&nbsp;025||9.21%||1&nbsp;176&nbsp;175||7.15%||411&nbsp;516||2.50%||16&nbsp;702&nbsp;000||60.63%

|}</div>

Second round

350px|thumb|Map of the notional results for the second round, by modern-day Voivodeship.

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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"

!

! align=center colspan=2 | Lech Wałęsa

! align=center colspan=2 | Stanisław Tymiński

! align=center colspan=2 | Turnout

|-

! align=center | Voivodeship

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | #

! align=center data-sort-type="number" | %

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Lower Silesian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 786&nbsp;674||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 75.04%||261&nbsp;623||24.96%||1&nbsp;070&nbsp;833||51.88%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Kuyavian-Pomeranian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 490&nbsp;599||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 64.34%||271&nbsp;949||35.66%||783&nbsp;252||52.97%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Lublin || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 615&nbsp;597||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 72.91%||228&nbsp;751||27.09%||862&nbsp;760||54.12%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Lubusz || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 218&nbsp;610||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 65.81%||113&nbsp;576||34.19%||341&nbsp;517||49.36%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Łódź || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 737&nbsp;210||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 71.67%||291&nbsp;339||28.33%||1&nbsp;053&nbsp;680||51.02%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Lesser Poland || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 1&nbsp;145&nbsp;270||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 87.36%||165&nbsp;637||12.64%||1&nbsp;336&nbsp;177||60.32%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Masovian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 1&nbsp;591&nbsp;180||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 79.27%||416&nbsp;102||20.73%||2&nbsp;050&nbsp;655||55.37%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Opole || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 271&nbsp;901||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 78.23%||75&nbsp;657||21.77%||356&nbsp;546||46.33%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Subcarpathian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 713&nbsp;210||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 82.17%||154&nbsp;721||17.83%||886&nbsp;711||60.24%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Podlaskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 338&nbsp;652||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 71.03%||138&nbsp;149||28.97%||487&nbsp;765||54.39%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Pomeranian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 666&nbsp;790||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 81.18%||154&nbsp;538||18.82%||840&nbsp;887||56.14%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Silesian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 1&nbsp;262&nbsp;846||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 73.68%||451&nbsp;115||26.32%||1&nbsp;753&nbsp;441||48.78%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Świętokrzyskie || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 301&nbsp;290||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 63.48%||173&nbsp;330||36.52%||486&nbsp;210||51.02%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Warmian-Masurian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 274&nbsp;595||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 59.91%||183&nbsp;774||40.09%||470&nbsp;483||50.86%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | Greater Poland || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 842&nbsp;150||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 67.74%||401&nbsp;031||32.26%||1&nbsp;286&nbsp;221||55.63%

|-

| align="left" style="background: #FF8F9B" | West Pomeranian || style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 366&nbsp;122||style="background: #FF8F9B;" | 64.47%||201&nbsp;806||35.53%||582&nbsp;899||48.49%

|-

!Poland||10&nbsp;622&nbsp;696||74.25%||3&nbsp;683&nbsp;098||25.75%||14&nbsp;650&nbsp;037||53.40%

|}</div>

Aftermath

thumb|Bielecki in 1991

Prime Minister Mazowiecki, utterly humiliated, resigned from his office soon after the election. His successor, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, was another liberal, who was again selected by the criteria Wałęsa set out for any possible prime ministers - to be younger and less experienced politically. Bielecki, though not significantly changing the course of the country, was more subservient to the now-president and his vision.

President-elect Wałęsa resigned from his role as Chairman of the Solidarity trade union shortly after becoming president, endorsing Lech Kaczyński to become the new chairman of the trade union. He faced the liberal-aligned Bogdan Borusewicz and relatively nonpartisan Marian Krzaklewski. On the 3rd Congress of Solidarity on 22–25 February, despite Wałesa's endorsement, Kaczyński lost the vote for union leadership to Krzaklewski, who would become an important politician for the duration of the next decade. In 1991, its candidates were disqualified in 90% of districts, and would only secure 52,735 votes, winning 3 seats. The party would not win any seats in any following elections. After running for president again in 2005, he only won 23,545 votes. votes. Though his political career was barely relevant following the first direct presidential election in Poland, his name became famous worldwide, and many would try to draw lines between Tymiński and other "populists", such as American presidential candidate Donald Trump or Law and Justice chairman Jarosław Kaczyński.

Notes

References

  • Obwieszczenie PKW z dn. 26 XI 1990 r., Dziennik Ustaw. Nr 83, poz. 483 (Polish)
  • Obwieszczenie PKW z dn. 10 XII 1990 r., Dz.U. Nr 85, poz. 499 (Polish)