Presidential election 2025. Here the vote has already ended. The turnout has broken records

According to the Polish Press Agency, over 60,000 people came to vote, which means an increase in attendance by over 30 percent compared to the first round. The high number of registered voters broke the previous records and showed the growing involvement of Polonia in the affairs of the country.

Emotions and motivations

Election participants did not hide that the decision to participate in voting resulted from a sense of duty.

“After all, every voice counts and it’s about the future of the homeland, it’s obvious,” said Anna Ostręga, an IT specialist who has lived in the United States for four decades.

Interestingly, many tourists were temporarily in the USA in polling stations. It was this group – often younger, mobile, but equally involved – largely contributed to record attendance.

The biggest clusters, the biggest challenges

In the largest Polish diaspora metropolises, such as Chicago and New York, committees had their hands full of work. Almost 20,000 people enrolled in the lists of voters in both these cities, which meant the need to involve more volunteers and consulate employees.

In Los Angeles and San Francisco, over 1.4 thousand citizens cast their votes – and in both cases they were record results. The great interest in the election meant that the consulates had to meet serious logistics challenges, but – as Consul Rychlik assured – everything went without interference.

“Record numbers of voters should not cause problems with counting votes and probably the results of the US commission will be one of the first to appear,” Rychlik said.

Voting not only in the USA

Apart from the United States, they were voted yesterday in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.