About Hungary - Hungary's parliamentary election system 101

About Hungary - Hungary's parliamentary election system 101

An overview of the system used in the April 3, 2022, election for Hungarian Parliament: 106 members elected first-past-the-post in single-member districts; 93 elected proportionally nationwide from party lists, using D'Hondt method of allocation. Each voter casts a vote for candidates running in his local constituency and a separate vote for a national party list. Unlike many countries with a mix of single-member and party-list elections, this is not a top-up system that aims to make the overall result proportional to the national vote.

Analysis of the April 3, 2022, result: Five Takeaways from a "victory so great you can see it from the moon"

More post-election analysis from Titus Techera, writing at Substack as PostModernConservative: "Hungary is so hated because it opposes these transformations & the politics they require--indeed, the end of politics, the replacement of popular opinion, debate, & decision with administrative decisions by far-removed courts, which are of course unelected, but which have to redesign the most fundamental institutions of our ways of life."

The six-party coalition that tried to unseat Prime Minister Orban held a two-round primary election to select the candidate in each constituency and the coalition party leader who would be prime minister if victorious. The idea was to avoid the problem of trying to win a first-past-the-post election with multiple candidates.