2002 Budapest Assembly election

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All 66 seats in the General Assembly of Budapest
34 seats needed for a majority

The 2002 Budapest Assembly election was held on 20 October 2002, concurring with other local elections in Hungary.

Mayor

Incumbent Gábor Demszky was directly elected mayor in a three-way race against Fidesz–KDNP supported independent candidate Pál Schmitt and MSZP candidate Erzsébet Gy. Németh with 46.70% of the vote.

List seats were distributed using the D'Hondt method.

Budapest Assembly election, 2002
Party	Candidates	Vote	Percentage	Vote change	Seats	Seat change
Hungarian Socialist Party	Erzsébet Gy. Németh Tibor Bakonyi Zoltán Ajkay Pál Vajda János Schiffer ...	262 998	35.58%	8.08%	24	4
Fidesz-Hungarian Democratic Forum	Kálmán Katona Tamás Deutsch László Szőke András Deák Zsolt Wintermantel ...	230 992	31.25%	0.26%	21	1
Alliance of Free Democrats	Gábor Demszky András Bőhm János Atkári László Rajk István Molnár ...	171 244	23.17%	2.02%	16	2
Hungarian Justice and Life Party	István Csurka László Zsinka Zoltán Balczó Zoltán Fenyvessy Péter Pál Marsi ...	48 514	6.56%	2.56%	5	1

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See also: List of Hungarian by-elections