At Stake in this Election: 

• 199 seats in the National Assembly (Országgyűlés) of Hungary. 

Government Structure: 

• Chief of State: President János ÁDER (since 10 May 2012) 
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Viktor ORBÁN (since 29 May 2010) 
• Assembly: The National Assembly (Országgyűlés) is a unicameral legislature comprised of 199 seats. 

Electoral System: 

• The National Assembly (Országgyűlés) is a unicameral legislature whose 199 members are elected using a system of mixed-member proportional representation. The first 106 seats are determined in single-member constituencies using a first-past-the-post system. The remaining 93 members are determined using proportional representation in a single countrywide constituency. Parties which run alone in the national constituency must surpass a five percent threshold to obtain seats. Similarly, two parties sharing a joint list must receive at least ten percent of the vote to gain representation, while joint lists consisting of three or more parties must surpass a fifteen percent threshold. While seats in the nationwide constituency are distributed proportionally, surplus votes are accounted for using the d’Hondt method. [1]

Last Election: 

• The previous parliamentary elections were held on 8 April 2018. 

Main Parties in this Election: 

• Coalition: Fidesz-KDNP Party Alliance* / Fidesz–KDNP Pártszövetség
  • ​Leader: Viktor ORBÁN 
  • Seats won in last election: 133 
• Coalition: United for Hungary** / Egységben Magyarországért 
  • Leader: Péter MÁRKI-ZAY 
  • Seats won in last election: New 
• Party: Our Homeland Movement / Mi Hazánk  
  • Leader: László TOROCZKAI 
  • Seats won in last election: Did not exist (currently possesses 2 seats) 

* The “Fidesz-KDNP Party Alliance” is comprised of the following: 

• Party: Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Alliance / Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség 
  • Leader: Viktor ORBÁN 
  • Seats won in last election: 116 
• Party: Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) / Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt 
  • Leader: Zsolt SEMJÉN 
  • Seats won in last election: 17 

**The “United Hungary” coalition consists of six parties, five of which maintain parliamentary representation: 

• Party: Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik) / Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom 
  • Leader: Péter JAKAB 
  • Seats won in last election: 26 (currently possesses 17 seats) 
• Party: Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) / Magyar Szocialista Párt 
  • Leaders: Bertalan TÓTH and Ágnes KUNHALMI 
  • Seats won in last election: 17 (currently possesses 15 seats) 
• Party: Dialogue for Hungary (Párbeszéd) / Párbeszéd Magyarországért 
  • Leaders: Gergely KARÁCSONY and TÍMEA SZABÓ 
  • Seats won in last election: 3 (currently possesses 5 seats) 
• Party: Democratic Coalition / Demokratikus Koalíció 
  • Leader: Ferenc GYURCSÁNY 
  • Seats won in last election: 9 
• Party: LMP – Hungary’s Green Party (LMP) / LMP – Magyarország Zöld Pártja 
  • Leaders: Máté KANÁSZ-NAGY and Erzsébet SCHMUCK 
  • Seats won in last election: 8 (currently possesses 6) 

Population and Registered Voters: 

• Population: 9,728,337 (July 2021 est.) [2]
• Registered Voters: 8,222,215 (March 2022 est.) [3]

Gender Data: 

• Female Population: 5,111,556 (2020 est.) [4]
• Is Hungary a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (signed 6 June 1980) [5]
• Has Hungary ratified CEDAW:  Yes (ratified 22 December 1980) [6]
• Gender Quota: There are no legislated gender quotas in Hungary. [7]
• Female candidates in this election: N/A 
• Number of Female Legislators: 26 out of 199 [8]
• Human Development Index (HDI) Position: Rank 40 at 0.854 (2020) [9]
• Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Low [10]

Disability Data: 

• Is Hungary a signatory to CRPD: Yes (signed on 30 March 2007) [11]
• Has Hungary ratified CRPD: Yes (ratified on 20 July 2007) [12]
• Population with a disability: 1,484,631 [13]

[1] http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2141_b.htm

[2] https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/hungary/#people-and-society

[3] https://vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2022/valasztasi-informaciok/valasztopolgarok-szama

[4] http://https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/hungary/#people-and-society

[5] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en

[6] Ibid.

[7] https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas/country-view/126/35

[8] Ibid.

[9] https://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/HUN

[10] https://www.genderindex.org/country-profiles/

[11] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en

[12] Ibid.

[13] http://www.electionaccess.org/en/resources/countries/hu/all/