Poland's conservative ruling party Law and Justice won the most votes in a general election held Sunday in the deeply divided nation and appeared, according to an exit poll, to have secured a comfortable majority in the parliament to govern for four more years.

The exit poll, projected that Law and Justice won 43.6 per cent of the votes. 

The poll said that a centrist pro-European Union umbrella group, Civic Coalition, would come in second with 27.4 per cent. The biggest party in the coalition is Civic Platform, which governed Poland from 2007-2015.