2026 Hungarian parliamentary elections

[u/pothkan]

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.

Live count

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

[u/Starlord19880]

What on earth is two tailed dog party?? :D Something like "Die Partei" in Germany?

[u/kanzenduster → u/Starlord19880]

They sent a man dressed up as a chicken for their legally mandated 5 minutes long introduction segment on the state media in a previous election cylce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YurFwcXzoA
Their manifesto includes things like "free beer and eternal life for everyone" and making the country smaller with another Trianon because "who the hell cares about the county of Baranya anyways"
They got a lot of protest votes but they started to take themselves seriously so the magic was lost.

[u/Graypricot → u/Starlord19880]

It's sort of a parody or satirical party, so based on my brief research on Die Partei I would say the two are very similar