According to the results from 46 out of 51 districts Duda got 52.46 percent of votes, while Komorowski got 47,54 percent.

He comes from Kraków, the son of Janina Milewska and Jan Tadeusz Duda. His wife, Agata Kornhauser, is a German teacher at Jan III Sobieski High School, Kraków. His father-in-law is Julian Kornhauser, a well-known Polish-Jewish writer, translator and literary critic.

He began his political career with the now-defunct Freedom Union Party in the early 2000s, but after the parliamentary elections in 2005 he began his collaboration with the Law and Justice Party. In 2010 he was an unsuccessful candidate to become the local President of Kraków as a PiS candidate, but was more successful in the 2011 parliamentary election, where he received 79,981 votes for the Kraków area, and thus became an envoy to the Sejm. However, he did not sit out the term, becoming elected in 2014 as a member of the European Parliament.

He came first receiving 5,179,092 votes and thus 34.76% of valid votes in the first round of the presidential election.