Not clear if Poland's PiS will have another term -Kaczynski

STORY: The Ipsos exit poll gave the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party 36.8% of the vote, which would translate into 200 lawmakers in the 460-seat parliament.

PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski told officials gathered at the party's headquarters in central Warsaw that it was not clear whether Sunday's showing would translate into a new term in office. "But we need to have hope," Kaczynski said.

PiS had cast the election as a choice between security from unfettered migration, which it says its opponents support, and a creeping westernization it sees as contrary to Poland's Catholic character.

The largest opposition grouping, the liberal Civic Coalition (KO), was projected to win 31.6% of the vote, which would give it 163 seats. Together with the center-right Third Way coalition and the New Left, who could enter a coalition with KO, it would command 248 seats.

Official results will start coming in later on Sunday.