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The Latest: Fire breaks out at a polling station in Poland during election for new parliament

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    Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the conservative opposition Law and Justice party prepares to cast his ballot at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. Poles voted Sunday in a parliamentary election that is expected to shift power from a centrist and pro-market party to a socially conservative and somewhat Euroskeptic party that favors more welfare spending to help the poor. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

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    Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the conservative opposition Law and Justice party casts his ballot in Poland’s general elections in Warsaw, Poland on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. Opinion polls showed Law and Justice ahead of the ruling Civic Platform party, but voters in Warsaw were also voting for new, small left- and rightwing parties, while being critical of the establishment. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

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    A woman rprepares to cast her ballot at a polling station in Warsaw, Poland on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. Opinion polls showed Law and Justice ahead of the ruling Civic Platform party, In Sunday's elections. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

WARSAW, Poland – The latest news as Poles vote in a parliamentary election. All times local:

11:05 a.m.

A fire has broken out at a polling station in Poland, forcing officials to move the voting station to a nearby school.

Wojciech Hermelinski, the head of the state electoral commission, says the fire broke out Sunday morning in Biskupin, near the northern Polish city of Bydgoszcz, after only six people had voted in a small wooden building. He says nobody was hurt and officials were able to secure all the documentation.

Poles are voting to pick 460 lawmakers to the lower house of parliament and 100 to the Senate. Whichever party wins the most votes gets the chance to form the next government.

Opinion polls in recent days show that the expected winner is Law and Justice, a socially conservative party that favors greater welfare spending to help the poor.