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2014 Budapest Assembly election
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All 33 seats in the General Assembly of Budapest
17 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader István Tarlós Csaba Horváth Gergely Karácsony
Party Fidesz–KDNP MSZP Együtt–PM
Last election 17 seats 10 seats New party
Seats won 20 6 2
Seat change Increase 3 Decrease 4 Increase 2
Popular vote 277,873 118,693 56,506
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Erzsébet Gy. Németh Marcell Tokody Antal Csárdi
Party DK Jobbik LMP
Last election New party 3 3
Seats won 2 1 1
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 2 Decrease 2
Popular vote 49,918 40,590 32,059
Map showing district mayoral election winners by party colors. White stands for a winning independent candidate.

The 2014 Budapest Assembly election was held on 12 October 2014, concurring with other local elections in Hungary. Voters elected the Mayor of Budapest, and the mayors of the 23 districts directly, while 9 seats in the assembly were distributed proportionally, taking into account votes cast for losing district mayoral candidates. This was the first election held under these rules, previously all seats (except for the Mayor) were elected with a party-list method.

Background

Regarding the Budapest Assembly election, the Fidesz-dominated National Assembly amended the electoral law in June 2014 after an announcement by Fidesz politicians Lajos Kósa and Antal Rogán, half a year before the local elections took place. The amendment, according to analysts, was formed according to the current interests of the ruling party, since it forced cooperation between rival opposition parties (MSZP, DK and Together–PM) in order to win district mayoral positions (and thus Budapest Assembly seats). Only parties with at least 12 mayoral candidates could submit a compensation list. According to the Political Capital analysis think tank, this meant that the three largest opposition parties would have had to give up 7 districts, where all three of them run their own underdog candidate against the plausible Fidesz winner, while in the remaining 16 districts they cooperate and distribute among themselves in a ratio of 5–5–6. The Political Capital and the opposition parties criticized the Fidesz government, for amending the electoral law according to the current political situation months before the election, thereby reducing legal certainty and violating the ruling party's own adopted Constitution.

The final result of the election (see below) finally justified the criticism. Index.hu calculated that under the old electoral system (party-list proportional rules) the Fidesz would have had only 16 mandates (15 + the mayor) instead of the 20 it won, therefore, the government party majority would not have been behind Mayor István Tarlós that way in the 33-member General Assembly of Budapest.

Mayor

Main article: 2014 Budapest mayoral election

Incumbent Mayor István Tarlós was reelected with 49.06% of the votes.

District mayors

District Elected mayor Party Number of votes for winner
I. Gábor Tamás Nagy Fidesz–KDNP 5 914
II. Zsolt Láng Fidesz–KDNP 18 733
III. Balázs Bús Fidesz–KDNP 23 615
IV. Zsolt Wintermantel Fidesz–KDNP 18 276
V. Péter Szentgyörgyvölgyi Fidesz–KDNP 5 621
VI. Zsófia Hassay Fidesz–KDNP 5 686
VII. Zsolt Vattamány Fidesz–KDNP 7 089
VIII. Máté Kocsis Fidesz–KDNP 10 674
IX. János Bácskai Fidesz–KDNP 7 954
X. Róbert Kovács Fidesz–KDNP 10 585
XI. Tamás Hoffmann Fidesz–KDNP 25 777
XII. Zoltán Pokorni Fidesz–KDNP 13 893
XIII. József Tóth MSZP 28 140
XIV. Gergely Karácsony Együtt–PM 18 126
XV. László Hajdu DK 11 294
XVI. Péter Kovács Fidesz–KDNP 16 064
XVII. Levente Riz Fidesz–KDNP 18 887
XVIII. Attila Ughy Fidesz–KDNP 15 202
XIX. Péter Gajda MSZP 13 858
XX. Ákos Szabados MSZP–DK–Együtt–PM 10 564
XXI. Lénárd Borbély Fidesz–KDNP 12 158
XXII. Ferenc Karsay Fidesz–KDNP 8 964
XXIII. Ferenc Geiger Independent 3 061

Distribution of compensation seats

Compensation seats were distributed using the D'Hondt method.

Party Votes for losing candidates Additional seats
MSZP 66 131 3
Fidesz–KDNP 52 781 2
Jobbik 40 590 1
DK 38 624 1
Együtt–PM 38 380 1
LMP 32 059 1

Notes

  1. Including a joint candidate with other parties, Ákos Szabados (hu)
  2. After the withdrawal of Ferenc Falus (hu)

References

  1. "Megváltozott a választási rendszer Budapesten". Index.hu. 2014-06-10.
  2. "Ismét nem tudja betartani saját Alaptörvényét a Fidesz". Political Capital. 2014-05-30.
  3. "Nem lett volna meg Tarlós többsége". Index.hu. 2014-10-28.
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