Google showed “exciting” data in connection with the debate on TVP. Searches skyrocketed

Six days before the parliamentary elections, it organized a debate in which representatives of all electoral committees took part. Law and Justice was represented by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the Civic Coalition by Donald Tusk, the Left by Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Trzecia Droga by Szymon Hołownia, the Confederation by Krzysztof Bosak, and the Non-partisan Local Government Party by Krzysztof Maj.

Daniel Rząsa from Google News Lab Lead shared on X (former Twitter) data on searches for the names of politicians who participated in the TVP debate. Donald Tusk and Mateusz Morawiecki dominated the first 40 minutes. However, the leader of the Civic Coalition had a clear advantage in searches over the prime minister representing .

TVP debate in the Google search engine. Who was the most popular?

There are also clearly visible jumps in searched names related to the moment of speech by given politicians. Until the 40th minute, the dominance of Tusk and Morawiecki was managed to be broken only by Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus from Nowa Lewica and Krzysztof Bosak from Konfederacja.

The situation was radically changed by the question about security. Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus mentioned road safety among the issues that politicians building a “safe Poland” should take care of. The MP emphasized the large number of victims of accidents on Polish roads. She referred to her own experiences. . Then searches for her name skyrocketed. Then this number dropped, but it was still much higher than in the case of other participants of the debate on TVP. The name of the Left MP was the most searched for until the end of the debate. Krzysztof Bosak equaled it once and surpassed it once, but these were only temporary jumps.

Google checks what and how Poles search before the elections

Google created a special page with search results before the elections. Last week, Poles most often searched for the Law and Justice party, which accounted for 33%. interest in election committees. The second one accounts for 27%. searches. Next we have the Third Way (12%), the Civic Coalition (9%), the New Left (7%), Non-Party Local Government operatives (6%) and Polska Jest Jedno (also 6%).

Interest in electoral committees, last week photo: Google

Until mid-September, the top three looked as above, but Nowa Lewica was ahead of Third Way in the search engine. However, in the middle of the month there was a change and Szymon Hołownia and Kosiniak-Kamysz overtook the Left. It briefly returned to fourth place on September 22, then fell again and ultimately remained in the fifth most searched position to this day. Interestingly, on September 25, Trzecia Droga overtook KO and jumped on the podium. In the following two weeks, the two committees traded in third and fourth place in searches. The PSL and Polski 2050 coalition jumped back to third place around October 4 and has remained there for now.

Interest in electoral committees by day, previous month photo: Google

Daniel Rząsa emphasizes on X.com that “search data concerns interest in a given topic or candidate. They do not replace the results of public opinion polls and should not be interpreted as electoral preferences.”