Social Democratic Party of Hungary

Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt Social Democratic Party of Hungary
Party leader	László Andráska
Deputy Chairman	Sándor Szőcs Zsolt Csiszár
Honorary Chairman	Ferenc Bazsai
founding	December 7, 1890 Hungarian uprising January 9, 1989
Place of foundation	Budapest , Hungary
resolution	June 12, 1948 Hungarian uprising
Headquarters	1107 Budapest , Somfa köz 17.
Youth organization	Social Democratic Youth Movement (SZIM)
newspaper	Népszava (until 1948)
Alignment	Social democracy
Colours)	red
Parliament seats	0/199
International connections	Socialist International (SI) Progressive Alliance
MEPs	0/21
European party	Party of European Socialists (PES)
Website	www.mszdp.hu

The Social Democratic Party of Hungary ( Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt (MSZDP) ) is a social democratic party in Hungary that was founded on December 7, 1890. The party was dissolved in 1948 after the communist takeover. It existed again for a short time during the Hungarian people's uprising from October 1956 to November 1956 and was re-established after the system change in 1989.

She was represented in parliament from 1922 to 1948 . The MSZDP was a ruling party between 1945 and 1948. After the system change, the then party chairman László Kapolyi was a member of parliament in the MSZP faction from 2002 to 2010.

The MSZDP is a member party of the Social Democratic Party of Europe (SPE) and the Socialist International (SI).

Election results

Parliamentary elections

elections	Number of votes (round I.)	Share of votes (round I.)	Number of votes (round II.)	Share of votes (round II.)	Number of seats	Proportion of seats	Role in parliament
1922	277 530	16.91%	-	-	25/244	10.20%	opposition
1926	126 824	11.09%	-	-	14/245	5.07%	opposition
1931	165 793	10.98%	-	-	14/245	5.07%	opposition
1935	132 051	6.69%	-	-	11/245	4.49%	opposition
1939	113 607	5.18%	-	-	5/260	4.00%	opposition
1945	823 260	17.41%	-	-	69/409	16.87%	Ruling party
1947	742 171	14.86%	-	-	67/411	16.30%	Ruling party
1990	174 410	3.55%	922	0.03%	0/386	-	extra-parliamentary
1994	51 122	0.95%	-	-	0/386	-	extra-parliamentary
1998	5 689	0.13%	3 052	0.63%	0/386	-	extra-parliamentary
2002	41 461	0.74%	40 709	0.93%	0/386	-	extra-parliamentary
2006	not participated		-	-	0/386	-	extra-parliamentary
2010	4117	0.08%	-	-	0/386	-	extra-parliamentary
2014	937	0.02%	-	-	0/199	-	extra-parliamentary

Explanations to the table

1. ↑ Joint results with MSZP . The MSZDP candidates run on MSZP lists. They ran together in some constituencies in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County (as MSZP-MSZDP).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MSZDP website ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2015 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. 
2. ^ Member parties of the Party of European Socialists | Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
3. ^ Party of European Socialists | Map of the local member parties (English)
4. ↑ Member parties of the Socialist International (English)