Parliamentary election in Hungary in 1945

The parliamentary elections in Hungary in 1945 took place on November 4, 1945. It was the last free elections in Hungary after the Second World War until the end of communism in 1989 .

The Soviet occupying power had decreed in advance that an all-party government would have to be formed regardless of the election result . This was to ensure the influence of the communists.

The winner of the election was the Independent Party of Small Farmers, Farm Workers and the Bourgeoisie (FKgP) with 57.3 percent of the vote. The Social Democratic Party of Hungary came in second with 17.4 percent. The communist MKP suffered an election failure with only 16.9 percent of the vote.

The turnout was 92.4 percent.

As a result, Zoltán Tildy (FKgP) became Prime Minister of an all-party government. However, real power lay in the hands of the occupation authorities, who ordered another election on August 31, 1947 . In the meantime, however, massive pressure was created on the FKgP and a mood of fear and insecurity was generated.

Results

Political party	be right	%	Seats
			Constituencies	National list	All in all
Independent party of small farmers, farm workers and the bourgeoisie	2,697,137	57.0	216	29	245
Social Democratic Party of Hungary	823.250	17.4	60	9	69
Communist Party of Hungary	801.986	17.0	61	9	70
National Peasant Party	324,772	6.9	20th	3	23
Civic Democratic Party	76,393	1.6	2	0	2
Hungarian Radical Party	5763	0.1	0	0	0
Invalid votes / blank ballot papers	44,244	-	-	-	-
All in all	4,773,545	100	359	50	409
Eligible voters	5,160,499	92.6	-	-	-

Source: Nohlen, Stöver

source

• Karl-Heinz Hajna: The state elections in 1946 in the Soviet Zone. Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-631-35950-0 , p. 225 (Chapter Assessment of the 1946 election in the Soviet Zone in comparison with the votes in the Central European countries)

Individual evidence

1. ^ D. Nohlen, P. Stöver: Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook. 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7 , p. 899.