2010 Hungarian parliamentary election



















Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010







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11 and 25 April 2010
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Members elected →


All 386 seats to the Országgyűlés
194 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 64.36% and 46.52%

















































































































 
First party
Second party
 

Orban Viktor Portrait.jpg

Mesterházy Attila 2009-12-14.JPG
Leader

Viktor Orbán

Attila Mesterházy
Party

Fidesz–KDNP

MSZP
Leader since
17 May 2003
10 July 2010
Last election
164 seats, 42.03%
192 seats, 43.21%
Seats won

Fidesz 227, KDNP 36


Seat change

Increase 99

Decrease 133
Popular vote
2,706,292
990,428
Percentage
52.73%
19.30%
Swing

Increase 10.70%

Decrease 23.91%

 
Third party
Fourth party
 

Vona Gabor.jpg

Schiffer András (VEHÍR).jpg
Leader

Gábor Vona

András Schiffer
Party

Jobbik

LMP
Leader since
25 November 2006
2009
Last election
0 seats, 2.20%

Seats won




Seat change

Increase 47

New party
Popular vote
855,436
383,876
Percentage
16.67%
7.48%
Swing

Increase 14.47%





Magyarországi választás 2010 egyéni eredmény.png
Map showing winning parties

  seats won by Fidesz-KDNP (173)


  seats won by MSZP (2)


  seat won by independent candidate (1)









Prime Minister before election

Gordon Bajnai
MSZP



Subsequent Prime Minister

Viktor Orbán
Fidesz



























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Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 11 and 25 April 2010 to choose MPs for the National Assembly.[1] They were the sixth free elections since the end of communist era. 386 members of parliament were elected in a combined system of party lists and electoral constituencies.[2] The electoral law does not allow all adult citizens to stand for being elected unless they can validate 500 signatures of other citizens supporting their candidacy.


In the first round of the elections, the conservative party Fidesz won the absolute majority of seats, enough to form a government on its own.
In the second round Fidesz-Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) candidates won enough seats to achieve a two-thirds majority required to modify major laws and the country's constitution.




Contents






  • 1 Background


  • 2 Polls


  • 3 Opinion polls


  • 4 Controversies


    • 4.1 Foreign interference




  • 5 Results


    • 5.1 Turnout




  • 6 Post-election controversies


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links





Background


Fidesz's landslide victory was a result of massive dissatisfaction with and voting in protest against MSZP, the Hungarian Socialist Party, which had been in government since 2002, and it was one event and its consequences especially that provoked resentment: in 2006 Ferenc Gyurcsány, the contemporary Prime Minister of Hungary, delegated by MSZP, made a private speech in front of MSZP party members, in which he, although generally outlining a direction to a new beginning and a moral paradigm change in day-to-day policy making, admitted to having been lying to the general public in different matters through a prolonged time during the campaign running up to the previous election, which had resulted among others in his reelection. This speech surfaced in the press in the Autumn of 2006, and resulted in nationwide protests.



Polls


As polls showed both MDF and SZDSZ would be unlikely to make it into parliament on their own, they have agreed to a limited electoral cooperation.[3] In March 2010, polls also showed that the Hungarian parliament after the election was likely to be completely dominated by Fidesz polling at 53–67% that month, followed by either the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party at 12–22% or newcomer Jobbik (Movement for a Better Hungary) at 11–18%.[4][5]



Opinion polls
























































































































































































































































































Election Party preferences in percentage
(What percentage of eligible voters would have voted for the party)
Agency
Date

Fidesz

MSZP

Jobbik

MDF

LMP

SZDSZ

KDNP

Other
Medián[6]
25 November 2009
66
19
10
2
1
1
n/a
1
Tárki[7]
25 November 2009
68
17
11
1
1
1
2
n/a
Századvég-Forsense[8]
26 November 2009
59
20
12
3
3
1
n/a
3
Tárki[9]
16 December 2009
63
19
12
1
3
1
n/a
n/a
Századvég-Forsense[10]
21 December 2009
64
17
9
3
2
0
n/a
4
Medián[11]
25 December 2009
61
23
9
2
1
1
n/a
3
Szonda Ipsos[12]
17 January 2010
63
21
12
2
n/a
1
0
1
Forsense[13]
21 January 2010
59
17
15
5
3
n/a
n/a
n/a
Medián[14]
21 January 2010
65
19
10
3
1
0
n/a
2
Századvég-Kód[15]
26 January 2010
59
23
10
4
2
1
1
n/a
Tárki[16]
27 January 2010
62
22
11
3
1
1
n/a
n/a
Szonda Ipsos[17]
12 February 2010
58
22
14
2
1
1
0
3
Századvég-Kód[18]
18 February 2010
58
23
10
5
3
1
-
-
Forsense[19]
22 February 2010
59
18
14
2
5
0
n/a
1
Medián[20]
24 February 2010
63
18
15
2
1
n/a
n/a
1
Tárki[21]
3 March 2010
61
22
11
2
3
n/a
n/a
1
Szonda Ipsos[22]
11 March 2010
57
20
17
1
3
1
0
1
Nézőpont Intézet[23]
14 March 2010
53
12
12
2
2
n/a
n/a
0
Medián[24]
17 March 2010
57
21
18
1
2
n/a
n/a
1
Szonda Ipsos[25]
18 March 2010
64
12
13
3
5
n/a
n/a
3
Gallup[26]
25 March 2010
67
15
14
1
4
n/a
n/a
0
Századvég-Kód[27]
29 March 2010
59
16
17
3
3
n/a
n/a
n/a


Controversies


Following the EU elections of 2009, trends showed the rise of right-wing parties and particularly the far right. In this vein, the foreign media cited ominous trends concerning the election results. Fidesz Member of Parliament Oszkár Molnár said that: "I love Hungary, I love Hungarians, and I prefer Hungarian interests to global financial capital, or Jewish capital, if you like, which wants to devour the whole world, but especially Hungary." He later said that, it was only a response to a Shimon Peres speech in which Peres said that his country aims to "colonise" Hungary when he spoke of Israel's investments abroad, Peres said that Israel was "buying out Manhattan, Poland, Hungary...."[28][29] Jobbik leader, Gábor Vona, also stirred up controversy with allegations of chauvinism by saying "Hungary is for Hungarians" and must be defended against "foreign speculators".[citation needed] Molnar also claimed that the language of instruction in Jerusalem schools was Hungarian and they were "learning the language of their future homeland". His party at the time, Fidesz, did not denounce his statement but simply said it was "embarrassing". Adding that he would not even consider ousting Molnar from his party or parliamentary faction, as the remark "did not violate the party's bylaws".[30] However, in 2010 he was excluded from the Fidesz, due to these remarks. Instead of him, a Lebanese-origin doctor, Pierre Daher became the Fidesz candidate.[original research?] Molnár also claimed that pregnant Roma women deliberately try to induce birth defects so they can give birth to "fools to receive higher family subsidies. I have checked this and it’s true; they hit their bellies with a rubber hammer so that they’ll give birth to handicapped kids." In 2011, he denounced Roma women at the Hungarian police authorities.[31]


Another Fidesz parliamentarian, Ilona Ékes, wrote to the police to ban a gay pride event in Budapest, saying that homosexuality was a mental illness and demonstrators would scandalise people, as they did in previous years, when homosexual activists imitated sexual intercourse on stage and other activists were allegedly blasphemous.[32][33] According to Ékes, the demonstrations would harm youngsters, whose school season was to start on the same day.[clarification needed][34]


A Hungarian analyst was cited as saying Fidesz tolerates such provocative rhetoric from its members because of fears they would vote for Jobbik instead.[citation needed]



Foreign interference


Former Jobbik MEP Krisztina Morvai wrote an open letter[35] to Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, the United States ambassador, after her controversial visit to the headquarters of the principal three parties other than Jobbik, while not visiting that of Jobbik, on the night of the election.



Results




2010 Hungarian parliamentary election, first round: First-placed candidates by parties in the single-seat constituencies:
██ = majority won by Fidesz-KDNP(119)
██ = plurality, Fidesz-KDNP (56)
██ = plurality, MSZP (1)




2010 Hungarian parliamentary election, first round: second-place candidates by parties in the single-seat constituencies
██ = MSZP (112)
██ = Jobbik (60)
██ = Somogyért Szövetség (1)
██ = Fidesz-KDNP (1)
██ = independent candidate (2)




































































































































































Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010.svg

Parties
Votes
Seats
Regional
District (round 1)
Regional
District
(round 1+2)
National
Total
#
%
#
%
#
±


Fidesz–KDNP


Fidesz
2,703,857
52.7
2,729,327
53.4
87
173
3
227

Increase86


KDNP
36

Increase13
 

Hungarian Socialist Party
989,609
19.3
1,087,097
21.3
28
2
29
59

Decrease131
 

Jobbik
854,745
16.7
835,841
16.4
26
0
21
47

Increase47
 

Politics Can Be Different
382,991
7.5
258,078
5.1
5
0
11
16

Increase16

 

Hungarian Democratic Forum
136,695
2.7
72,695
1.4
0
0
0
0

Decrease11
 

Civil Movement
45,863
0.9
34,938
0.7
0
0
0
0
New
 

Hungarian Communist Workers' Party
5,606
0.1
5,668
0.1
0
0
0
0

Steady0
 

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote
8,135
0.2
49,634
1.0
0
0
0
0

 
Independents
0
0.0
33,702
0.7
0
1
0
1

Increase1
Totals (Turnout 64.4%)
5,127,501
100.0
5,107,471
100.0
146
176
64
386

Steady 0


Turnout

























Round 1[36]
7:00 9:00 11:00 13:00 15:00 17:30 Overall
1.61% 10.23% 24.78% 35.88% 46.78% 59.28% 64.36%























Round 2[36]
7:00 9:00 11:00 13:00 15:00 17:30 Overall
1.36% 8.50% 19.37% 27.11% 33.54% 41.89% 46.52%



Post-election controversies


Four Jobbik MPs—Gábor Staudt, Gergő Balla, Zsolt Endrésik and Péter Schön—were removed from their committees because they had failed a vetting procedure that asked whether any MP's maintain contact with groups that engage in "activities that deny the basic principles of a state governed by the rule of law." Staudt, a co-founder of the Magyar Gárda Society—that was banned in 2007—had been on the national security committee, while the other three were on the defence and law enforcement committees. Staudt reacted in saying he found the result to be unconstitutional, and that he would file a criminal report with the interior minister against Defence of the Constitution Office director general László Balajti. The four would, however, continue to be MPs.[37]



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External links


  • NSD - European Election Database - Hungary








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