Parliamentary election in Hungary 2010

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 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

52.73

19.30

16.67

7.48

2.67

1.20

Fidesz ^a

MSZP

Jobbik ^c

LMP

MDF

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2006

 % p

 15th

 10

   5

   0

  -5

-10

-15

-20

-25

+10.70

-23.91

+14.47

+7.48

-2.37

-7.03

Fidesz ^a

MSZP

Jobbik ^c

LMP

MDF

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^a In electoral alliance with KDNP

^c Comparative value 2006: MIÉP – Jobbik alliance (2.20%)

59

1

16

263

47

59 1 16 263 47 

A total of 386 seats

• MSZP : 59
• Independent: 1
• LMP : 16
• Fidesz : 263
• Jobbik : 47

The parliamentary elections in Hungary in 2010 took place on April 11th and 25th. It was the sixth parliamentary election since the end of real socialism in Hungary . Around 8.1 million people were eligible to vote . The parties had to overcome a five percent hurdle in order to enter the Hungarian parliament ( Országgyűlés ). The election took place in two rounds. The end result was a landslide victory for the Christian-conservative electoral alliance Fidesz and Christian-Democratic People's Party (KDNP), which had 263 out of 386 members in the newly elected parliament and thus had a two-thirds majority .

Starting position

The previous, non-party Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai announced that he would not stand for election. For supporting him social democratic Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) was Attila Mesterházy candidate for the post of prime minister. The then opposition leader, former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán , ran for the right-wing conservative Fidesz . Other top candidates were Attila Retkes for the liberal SZDSZ and Lajos Bokros for the bourgeois MDF . The right-wing extremist Jobbik under Gábor Vona and the green LMP , for which András Schiffer was the top candidate, wanted to move into parliament . The communist MKMP of Hungary entered with Gyula Thürmer .

The two small Hungarian opposition parties, the MDF and the SZDSZ, formed an electoral alliance before the election . The SZDSZ decided to vote in the capital Budapest and in 18 constituencies with individual candidates, while the MDF drew up a capital and a country list. With this, the two influential parties of the first freely elected Hungarian parliament entered into a political cooperation for the first time after 1989. In the MDF, the cooperation led to great resistance and withdrawals from the party.

Polls before the election

Election billboard in Orosháza

The polls showed a clear victory for Fidesz and the entry of Jobbik into parliament. The MSZP, which has ruled since 2002, was forecasted high losses (from over 40% to approx. 20%) and perhaps even falling back to third place behind Fidesz (up to 66%) and Jobbik (12–20%), while the forecasts for the new green party LMP were around 5% and thus opened up a small chance of entering parliament.

Election process

Ballot in Budapest

Changes in the prescribed procedure for voting card voters led to the fact that the reduced number of polling stations for voting card voters led to a rush. In order to give all voters the opportunity to vote, the opening times of these polling stations have been extended beyond 7 p.m. Therefore, no projections or exit polls were allowed to be published. Not all media followed these rules.

Electoral system

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The 386 MPs were elected according to an electoral system that combined election in individual constituencies and election of parties via lists. 176 candidates were elected in single constituencies. If no candidate obtained an absolute majority, a second ballot took place. If the turnout was below 50%, all candidates in the first ballot were allowed to run in the second ballot. If the turnout was more than 50%, the candidates who had received more than 15% of the votes, but at least the three strongest candidates, were allowed to run. In the second ballot, a relative majority was sufficient. Up to 152 seats in parliament were elected via party lists at the regional level. The remaining 58 seats plus some unoccupied seats at the regional level were allocated via national lists as compensation mandates, which weakened the advantage of the parties that were particularly successful in the single-electoral districts.

The legislative period lasts four years.

Election result

Majorities in the constituencies in the first round:

absolute majority for Fidesz-KDNP
(119 constituencies)

relative majority for Fidesz-KDNP
(56 constituencies)

relative majority for the MSZP
(1 constituency)

Majorities in the constituencies after the second round:

Constituencies won by Fidesz-KDNP (173)

constituencies won by the MSZP (2)

constituency won by independent candidate (1)

Fidesz-KDNP achieved an absolute majority of the list votes and an absolute majority in the first ballot in 119 constituencies. A second ballot on April 25 was necessary in the remaining 57 constituencies. The result after the second ballot.

	List votes			Constituency votes								Training gleichs- MAN date	Seats a total including
				1st ballot				2nd ballot
	Number / votes	%	Seats	Number / votes	%	candidates data	Seats	Number / votes	%	candidates data	Seats
Eligible voters	8,034,394			8,034,394				2,486,111
Voters / turnout	5,172,222	64.38		5,172,222	64.38			1.160.117	46.66
Valid votes	5,132,531	99.23		5,114,570	98.89			1,152,693	99.36
Fidesz - KDNP	2,706,292	52.73	87	2,743,626	53.64	176	119	629.028	54.57	57	54	3	263
MSZP	990.428	19.30	28	1,088,374	21.28	176		326.361	28.31	53	2	29	59
Jobbik	855.436	16.67	26th	836.774	16.36	176		141,415	12.27	42		21st	47
LMP	383,876	7.48	5	259.220	5.07	92		43,437	3.77	13		11	16
MDF	136,895	2.67		76,820	1.50	80
MDF - SZDSZ				12,652	0.25	9
CM	45,863	0.89		34,938	0.68	24
Munkáspárt	5,606	0.11		5,668	0.11	16
MSZDP	4.117	0.08		3,156	0.06	10
PP	2,732	0.05		3,422	0.07	5
MIÉP	1,286	0.03		2,345	0.05	8th
Other parties				13,873	0.27	19th
Non-party				33,702	0.66	19th		12,452	1.08	2	1		1
total	5,132,531	100	146	5,114,570	100	810	119	1,152,693	100	167	57	64	386

Web links

Commons : Parliamentary Elections in Hungary 2010  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Election results (Hungarian / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Election in Hungary has started. (No longer available online.) In: Pester Lloyd . April 11, 2010; Archived from the original on July 7, 2010 ; Retrieved April 11, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Electoral alliance between conservative and liberal small party. In: derstandard.at. Retrieved April 11, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Right-wing extremists in the polls high - if there were elections in Hungary next Sunday ... (No longer available online.) In: Pester Lloyd . February 17, 2010, archived from the original on July 7, 2010 ; Retrieved March 2, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Confusion about the new voting mode on ORF from April 11, 2010
5. ↑ Act No. XXXIV of 1989 on the Election of the Members of Parliament ( Memento of the original dated August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hungarian electoral law from 1989 
6. ^ Results page of the Hungarian electoral authority