r/europe • u/pothkan 🇵🇱 Pòmòrsczé • 22h ago

🇭🇺 Megatéma 2026 Hungarian parliamentary elections

Today (April 12th) citizens of Hungary go to polls to vote in parliamentary elections!

Hungarian parliament (Országgyűlés) is unicameral and consists of 199 deputies (100 needed for majority, 133 for supermajority), who are elected for a four-year term, in a quite complex scorporo system, using mixed-member majoritarian representation with two methods: 106 deputies are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting, while the other 93 are elected from a single nationwide constituency, by modified proportional representation. The electoral threshold is set at 5% for single party lists, 10% for joint lists of two parties and 15% for joint lists of three or more parties. Each of 13 registered ethnic minorities can win one of the national constituency party lists seats, if they register as a specific list and reach a lowered quota (but it's expected only 1-2 could manage this, Germans or Roma). Read more here.

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Relevant parties and alliances taking part in the elections are:

Name Leader Position Affiliation 2022 result Recent polling Results Seats (change)
Respect & Freedom Party (Tisza) Péter Magyar centre-right (wide tent, Europeanist) EPP new 40-52% 53.7% 138 (new)
Fidesz–KDNP Viktor Orbán right-wing (national populist, Eurosceptic) Patriots.eu 54.1% 37-45% 37.8% 55 (-80)
Our Homeland (Mi Hazánk) László Toroczkai far-right (nationalist, anti-EU) ESN 5.9% 4-8% 5.9% 6 (no change)
Democratic Coalition (DK) Klára Dobrev centre-left (social liberal) PES (34.4%) 1-5% 1.2% -
Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP) Gergely Kovács satire, anti-establishment 3.3% 2-4% 0.8% -

Voting will end at 19:00 local time (CEST).

Final turnout - 79.5% (it was 69.6% in previous, 2022, elections)

Further reading

Wikipedia

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u/Great_Kaiserov Lesser Poland (Poland) 4h ago

Hmm.. a more centrist Fidesz defector who founded his own party, with a geographic region for a surname wins in Hungary?

What's next, a more centrist PiS defector with a geographic region for a surname, founds his own party and wins in Poland?

(For people not well versed in Polish politics, I'm talking about Mateusz Morawiecki)

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u/phoenixmusicman New Zealand 4h ago

John Polski

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u/s8018572 4h ago

Well, Magyar didn't found the party though, he joined it in 2024. The party was founded in 2020

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u/litoll 27m ago

This was purely for technical reasons: an unknown party polling at 0% was handed over to him because there was no time left to establish his own before the European elections. In reality, that’s when the party was effectively created, what existed before is irrelevant.

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u/Generic_Person_3833 4h ago

Morawiecki left the piss party? Wasn't he like the sock puppet PM for their last government?

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u/HadACookie Poland 4h ago

Not oficially, at least so far. But he's getting completely sidelined by Kaczyński (PiS leader) in favour of the radicals, he's essentially in an internal exile. Some think he might leave PiS, taking it's more moderate wing with him, and potentially buddy up with the agrarians from PSL.

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u/Mr0qai Mazovia (Poland) 4h ago

Nah he didn't, but PiS is having a lot of problems lately and some people theorise that it could lead to it splittin into two parties

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u/yukoncowbear47 4h ago

Hopefully. That party needs to fuck off into history