Parliamentary election in Hungary in 1947

The parliamentary elections in Hungary in 1947 were a semi-free election in Hungary and took place on August 31, 1947 by order and under massive pressure from the Soviet occupation authorities.

The Independent Party of Small Farmers, Farm Workers and the Bourgeoisie (FKgP), victorious in the parliamentary elections on November 4, 1945 , collapsed under pressure and received only 15.4 percent of the vote. Despite the climate of uncertainty and fear, the communist MKP only achieved 22.3 percent of the vote, but was the strongest party ahead of the Democratic People's Party with 16.5 percent, the FKgP and the Social Democrats with 14.9 percent.

On June 12, 1948, the MKP and the Social Democrats were forcibly united to form the Party of the Hungarian Working People . The parliamentary election on May 15, 1949 was a sham election carried out with unit lists . This completed the co-ordination of the political parties in Hungary.

Results

Political party	be right	%	Seats
			Constituencies	National list	All in all	+/-
Communist Party of Hungary	1,111,001	22.25	79	21st	100	+30
People's Democratic Party	824.259	16.50	58	2	60	New
Independent party of small farmers, farm workers and the bourgeoisie	766,000	15.34	54	14th	68	−177
Social Democratic Party of Hungary	742.171	14.86	53	14th	67	−2
Hungarian Independence Party	670.751	13.43	47	2	49	New
National Peasant Party	413,409	8.28	29	7th	36	+13
Independent Hungarian Democratic Party	262.109	5.25	18th	0	18th	New
Hungarian Radical Party	85,535	1.71	6th	0	6th	+6
Christian women's league	69,363	1.39	4th	0	4th	New
Civic Democratic Party	49,740	1.00	3	0	3	+1
Invalid votes / blank ballot papers	31,950	-	-	-	-	-
All in all	5,026,288	100	351	60	411	+2

Source: Nohlen, Stöver

literature

• Karl-Heinz Hajna: The state elections in 1946 in the Soviet Zone. Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-631-35950-0 , p. 226 (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.