2002 Hungarian parliamentary election Turnout 70.53% (first round)
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Viktor Orbán
Péter Medgyessy
Gábor Kuncze
Party
Fidesz -MDF
MSZP
SZDSZ
Leader since
6 July 1998[a]
June 2001[c]
1 July 2001
Last election
165 seats, 32.28%[b]
134 seats, 32.92%
24 seats, 7.57%
Seats won
Fidesz 179, MDF 9
[d]
Seat change
1R vote and %
2,217,755 (39.4%)
2,277,737 (40.5%)
380,982 (6.8%)
2R vote and %
2,196,540 (50.0%)
2,011,845 (45.8%)
126,966 (2.9%)
Party vote
2,306,763
2,361,983
313,084
% and swing
41.07% pp
42.05% pp
5.57% pp
Results of the election. A darker shade indicates a higher vote share. Proportional list results are displayed in the top left.
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] 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 [ edit ] Party Proportional SMCs (first round) SMCs (second round) Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats National Total +/– Hungarian Socialist Party 2,361,997 42.05 69 2,277,732 40.50 24 2,011,845 45.77 54 31 178 +44 Fidesz –Hungarian Democratic Forum 2,306,763 41.07 67 2,217,755 39.43 20 2,196,540 49.97 75 26 188 +23 Alliance of Free Democrats 313,084 5.57 4 380,982 6.77 0 126,966 2.89 2 13 19 –5 Hungarian Justice and Life Party 245,326 4.37 0 257,455 4.58 0 325 0.01 0 0 0 –14 Centre Party –Christian Democratic People's Party 219,029 3.90 0 182,256 3.24 0 5,280 0.12 0 0 0 New Hungarian Workers' Party 121,503 2.16 0 108,732 1.93 0 0 0 0 Independent Smallholders' Party 42,338 0.75 0 67,401 1.20 0 692 0.02 0 0 0 –48 New Left Party 3,198 0.06 0 5,597 0.10 0 0 0 New Reform Smallholders' Party 1,086 0.02 0 2,758 0.05 0 0 0 New Social Democratic Party 912 0.02 0 590 0.01 0 0 0 0 Hungarian Roma Party 745 0.01 0 589 0.01 0 0 0 New Smallholders' Party, Party of Smallholders' Alliance 451 0.01 0 2,699 0.05 0 0 0 New Hungarian Entrepreneurs' United Party 318 0.01 0 1,288 0.02 0 0 0 New Hungarian Socialist Party –Social Democratic Party 41,461 0.74 0 40,709 0.93 0 0 0 – Hungarian Socialist Party –Alliance of Free Democrats 27,892 0.50 1 13,101 0.30 0 0 1 – Green Party of Hungary 2,221 0.04 0 0 0 0 Party of the Hungarian Interest 919 0.02 0 0 0 New Union for Solidarity 793 0.01 0 0 0 New Hungarian Pensioners' Party 685 0.01 0 0 0 New Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party 612 0.01 0 0 0 0 Independent Hungarian Democratic Party 531 0.01 0 0 0 0 Civic Democratic Party against Corruption 261 0.00 0 0 0 New Democratic Roma Party 171 0.00 0 0 0 New Independents 43,215 0.77 0 0 0 –1 Total 5,616,750 100.00 140 5,624,595 100.00 45 4,395,458 100.00 131 70 386 0 Valid votes 5,616,750 98.88 5,624,595 99.02 4,395,458 99.39 Invalid/blank votes 63,897 1.12 55,863 0.98 26,963 0.61 Total votes 5,680,647 100.00 5,680,458 100.00 4,422,421 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 8,061,101 70.47 8,061,101 70.47 6,018,069 73.49 Source: Valasztas , Election Resources
Party list results by county [ edit ]
^ Orbán became Prime Minister on 6 July 1998. He had previously been leader of Fidesz since 18 April 1993, but resigned partway through his premiership in January 2000, and did not become leader again until 2003.
^ Combined results for Fidesz (148 seats, 29.48%) and MDF (17 seats, 2.80%).
^ Medgyessy was selected as the MSZP's Prime Minister candidate in June 2001, but did not join the party, remaining an independent.
^ Including one deputy elected as a joint MSZP–SZDSZ candidate.
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