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After the first round of nearly 48,000 local elections, PM Donald Tusk's ruling Civic Platform party won 39 per cent of votes in parliamentary assemblies.
Tusk's coalition partner, the Polish Peoples' Party, also had a strong showing with 16.5 per cent.
The results were seen as a defeat to the conservative Law and Justice party, led by former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, which won 25 per cent of seats.
The opposition, led by defeated and often bitter presidential candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski, had waged a virulent campaign against Tusk's party, often playing on nationalistic pride and stirring old anti-Russian fears.
