Hungarian parliamentary election, 2002

7 and 21 April 2002

All 386 seats to the Országgyűlés 194 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Péter Medgyessy	Viktor Orbán	Gábor Kuncze
Party	MSZP	Fidesz	SZDSZ
Last election	134 seats	148 seats	24 seats
Seats won	178	188	20
Seat change	44	40	4
Popular vote	2,361,997	2,306,763	313,084
Percentage	42.05%	41.07%	5.57%

Map showing winning/leading parties in each Single Member Constituency

PM before election

Viktor Orbán
Fidesz

Elected PM

Péter Medgyessy
MSZP

Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 7 April 2002, with a second round of voting in 131 of the 176 single member constituencies on 21 April.^[1]^[2] Although Fidesz remained the largest party in the National Assembly despite receiving fewer votes than the Hungarian Socialist Party, the Socialist Party was able to form a coalition government with the Alliance of Free Democrats.

Results

Party	SMCs			MMCs			National seats	Total seats	+/–
Party	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	National seats	Total seats	+/–
Hungarian Socialist Party	2,277,732	40.5	78	2,361,983	42.1	69	31	178	+44
Fidesz–Hungarian Civic Party–MDF	2,217,755	39.4	95	2,306,763	41.1	67	26	188	+40
Alliance of Free Democrats	380,982	6.8	2	313,084	5.6	4	13	19	–5
Hungarian Justice and Life Party	257,455	4.6	0	245,316	4.4	0	0	0	–14
Centre Party	182,256	3.2	0	219,029	3.9	0	0	0	New
Workers' Party	108,732	1.9	0	121,503	2.2	0	0	0	0
Independent Smallholders' Party	67,401	1.2	0	42,338	0.8	0	0	0	–48
MSZP–MSZDP	41,461	0.7	0	–	–	–	0	0	–
MSZP–SZDSZ	27,892	0.5	1	–	–	–	0	1	–
New Left Party	5,597	0.1	0	3,198	0.1	0	0	0	New
Green Party of Hungary	2,221	0.0	0	–	–	–	0	0	0
Reform Smallholders' Party	2,758	0.0	0	1,086	0.0	0	0	0	New
Smallholders' Party, Party of Smallholders' Alliance	2,699	0.0	0	451	0.0	0	0	0	New
Hungarian Entrepreneurs' United Party	1,288	0.0	0	318	0.0	0	0	0	New
Party of the Hungarian Interest	919	0.0	0	–	–	–	0	0	New
Union for Solidarity	793	0.0	0	–	–	–	0	0	New
Hungarian Pensioners' Party	685	0.0	0	–	–	–	0	0	New
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party	612	0.0	0	–	–	–	0	0	0
Social Democratic Party	590	0.0	0	912	0.0	0	0	0	0
Hungarian Roma Party	589	0.0	0	745	0.0	0	0	0	New
Independent Hungarian Democratic Party	531	0.0	0	–	–	–	0	0	0
Civic Democratic Party against Corruption	261	0.0	0	–	–	–	0	0	New
Democratic Roma Party	171	0.0	0	–	–	–	0	0	New
Independents	43,215	0.8	0	–	–	–	–	0	–1
Invalid/blank votes	55,863	–	–	63,897	–	–	–	–	–
Total	5,680,458	100	176	5,680,623	100	140	70	386	0
Registered voters/turnout	8,061,101	70.5	–	8,061,101	70.5	–	–	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p899 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p927

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