2026 Hungarian parliamentary election

2026 Hungarian parliamentary election
12 April 2026
All 199 seats in the National Assembly
100 seats needed for a majority
Registered7,527,742
Turnout79.55% (Increase 9.96pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Péter Magyar Viktor Orbán László Toroczkai
Party TISZA Fidesz Mi Hazánk
Alliance — Fidesz–KDNP —
Last election Did not contest 135 seats
54.1%		 6 seats
5.9%
Seats won 141 56 6
Popular vote 3,112,064 2,323,718 342,416
Percentage 52.44% 39.15% (Decrease 15.18 pp) 5.77% (Decrease 0.09pp)
Government before election

Orbán V
Fidesz–KDNP

 Government after election

Magyar
TISZA

The 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election is the tenth general parliamentary elections in Hungary since the change of regime on 12 April 2026. Péter Magyar's Tisza Party won a supermajority and Magyar was elected Prime Minister, ending Orbán's 16 year rule.[1]

Electoral system

According to Hungary's constitution, the election takes place in April or May of the fourth year following the election of the previous Parliament, and the President sets the specific date at least 72 days before the election. The day of the vote may not fall on a national holiday or public holiday (e.g. 1 May), nor on the day before or after, nor on Easter Sunday or Pentecost Sunday. Hungarian elections must be held on Sundays.

on 13 January, 2026, President Tamás Sulyok called the elections for 12 April.[2][1]

The single-round election is regulated by Act CCIII of 2011. There are 199 members of the National Assembly, and the electoral system is a mixed majority system: 106 MPs are elected by a relative majority in individual constituencies, and 93 MPs are elected by proportional representation on party or nationality lists, with the addition of fractional votes. Since 2014, each of the Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, German, Greek, Polish, Romani, Romanian, Rusyn, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Ukrainian ethnic minorities can win one of the 93 party lists seats if they register as a specific list and reach a lowered quota of the total of party list votes. Fractional votes are those votes that did not win a mandate in the constituencies, and also include the winner's "surplus" votes that were not needed to win.[3]

Candidates who stood as independents, or were nominated by a party that did not have a national list, or did but did not reach the parliamentary threshold, cannot have their votes counted as a fraction of a vote. Thus, if such a candidate wins, the 'surplus' votes no longer needed to win are lost, while if he loses, all the votes cast for him are lost.

Election of individual MPs

To become a candidate for an individual constituency, 500 signatures must be collected under the electoral laws. One representative is elected in each individual constituency in a single-round, single-X vote, and the candidate who receives the most votes is elected.

Election of party list MPs

A party list can be nominated by a party that has an individual candidate in 71 constituencies, but at least in 14 counties and Budapest. To nominate a national list, the recommendations of 1% of the voters registered in the national register, but at least 1500 people, must be collected.

Nationality voters may decide to vote for their nationality list, in which case they cannot vote for a party list. When the seats are distributed, votes from nationality lists are also taken into calculation. Hungarians outside the borders who do not have a Hungarian address may vote only on party lists.

The distribution of mandates:

  1. The list votes must be summed up.
  2. If a national minority secures all national list votes divided by 93, then divided by 4, they receive a preferential mandate.
  3. The number of preferential mandates obtained by national minorities must be subtracted from the total number of available list mandates.
  4. The mandates must be distributed among:
    • Parties that reach 5% (for dual lists, 10%, and for triple or more lists, 15%),
    • National minorities that reach 5%.
  5. Fractional votes must be added to the parties' votes, while the preferential quota must be subtracted from the national minorities' votes.
  6. The mandates are distributed using the D'Hondt method:
    • Create a table: the first row contains the votes, the second row contains half the votes, the third row contains one-third of the votes, the fourth row contains one-quarter of the votes, and so on.
    • The largest numbers are "circled."
    • Each party/minority receives as many mandates as there are "circles" in their column.

Nationalities that do not win a mandate can send one nationality representative to the National Assembly. The spokesperson has the same rights as MPs, except that he or she cannot vote on decisions of parliament.

In the electoral system, the list is a closed list, and the order of the candidates on the list, as established by the parties, cannot be changed by the voters through preferential votes.

Parties

Before the election, several well-known parties announced that they would not run in the election in order to ensure the victory of the most popular opposition party, Tisza.

The National Election Commission has registered the following organizations (political parties and national minority self-governments) that intend to participate in the election:[4]

  1. The Hungarian Entrepreneurs and Employers' Party (A Magyar Vállalkozók és Munkaadók Pártja)
  2. The Party of Solidarity (A Szolidaritás Pártja)
  3. Democratic Coalition (Demokratikus Koalíció)
  4. Duna Party (Duna Párt)
  5. United Humanity of Hungary (Magyarországi Egyesült Emberiség)
  6. Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség)[2]
  7. Let Our Voices Be Heard Alliance Party (Hallassuk a Hangunkat Szövetségesei Párt)
  8. Direction of the Future Party (Irány a Jövő Párt)
  9. Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom)
  10. Christian Democratic People's Party (Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt)
  11. Party of the Circle Crusaders (Körkeresztesek Pártja)
  12. The Party for Those Who Stand in the Middle (Középen Állók Pártja)
  13. LMP – Hungary's Green Party (LMP – Magyarország Zöld Pártja)
  14. Hungarian Justice and Life Party (Magyar Élet és Igazság Pártja)
  15. Dare Hungary Party (Merj Magyarország Párt)
  16. Hungarian Fisher and Hunter Party (Magyar Horgász Vadász Párt)
  17. The Party of All Times and Friendship (Minden Idők és Barátság Pártja)
  18. Our Homeland Movement (Mi Hazánk Mozgalom)
  19. Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (Magyar Kétfarkú Kutyapárt)
  20. Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialista Párt)[5]
  21. Hungarian Workers' Party (Magyar Munkáspárt)
  22. National Unity Movement for the Lands of the Holy Crown (Nemzetegyesítő Mozgalom a Szentkorona Országaiért)
  23. Party for a Normal Life (Normális Élet Pártja)
  24. National Alliance of Republicans and Democrats Party (Országos Republikánusok és Demokraták Szövetsége Párt)
  25. Home Protection Real Estate Party (Otthon Védelme Ingatlan Párt)
  26. Party of Social Democrats (Szociáldemokraták Pártja)
  27. Free Country Movement (Szabad Ország Mozgalom)
  28. Tea Party Community (Tea Párt Közösség)
  29. The Party for Fair Salaries for Everyone (Tisztességes Fizetést Mindenkinek Pártja)
  30. Respect and Freedom Party (Tisztelet és Szabadság Párt)[6]

Withdrawn parties

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Hungary's 2026 parliamentary elections set for 12 April". telex (in Hungarian). 2026-01-13. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  2. 1 2 "87 days to election: Hungary sees widening gap in favour of Tisza over Orbán's Fidesz". EUobserver. 2026-01-15. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  3. ↑ "Választási Tudásbázis - Magyarország". www.szavaz.at. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  4. ↑ "Nemzeti Választási Iroda - Országgyűlési képviselők választása". vtr.valasztas.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2026-04-18.
  5. ↑ "Socialist Party Says No Decision Yet on Running in April Election - Budapest Business Journal". bbj.hu. 2026-01-27. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  6. ↑ "Tisza to Run Independently in All Constituencies in 2026 Election - Budapest Business Journal". bbj.hu. 2025-07-14. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  7. ↑ Today, Hungary (2025-06-10). "Opposition Party Bows Out of 2026 Race amid Shifting Political Landscape". Hungary Today. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  8. ↑ "Márki-Zay Péter pártja nem indul a 2026-os választáson". hvg.hu (in Hungarian). 2025-06-01. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  9. ↑ "Döntött a kongresszus: az LMP nem akadályozza a..." kontroll (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  10. ↑ "Választások". Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  11. ↑ Okoshír (2025-06-19). "Jámbor András nem indul egyéni képviselőjelöltként 2026-ban". Okoshír.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  12. ↑ "Nem indul el az idei választásokon a Gattyán-féle Megoldás Mozgalom". telex (in Hungarian). 2026-01-15. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  13. ↑ "Nem indul Vona Gábor pártja az idei választásokon". telex (in Hungarian). 2026-01-17. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  14. ↑ "Kásler Árpád: Nincs itt semmi látnivaló, Kapitány! | A HAZA PÁRTJA honlapja" (in Hungarian). 2026-01-20. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
  15. ↑ "Nem indul a Humanisták az áprilisi választáson". telex (in Hungarian). 2026-01-29. Retrieved 2026-01-31.
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