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2002 Hungarian parliamentary election

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All 386 seats to the Országgyűlés 194 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	70.53% (first round) 73.51% (second round)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Viktor Orbán Péter Medgyessy Gábor Kuncze Party Fidesz-MDF MSZP SZDSZ Leader since 6 July 1998 June 2001 1 July 2001 Last election 165 seats, 32.28% 134 seats, 32.92% 24 seats, 7.57% Seats won 188 / 386 Fidesz 179, MDF 9 179 / 386 19 / 386 Seat change 23 45 5 1R vote and % 2,217,755 (39.4%) 2,277,737 (40.5%) 380,982 (6.8%) 2R vote and % 2,196,540 (50.0%) 2,011,845 (45.8%) 126,966 (2.9%) Party vote 2,306,763 2,361,983 313,084 % and swing 41.07% 8.79 pp 42.05% 6.13 pp 5.57% 2.00 pp
Results of the election. A darker shade indicates a higher vote share. Proportional list results are displayed in the top left.
Government before election First Orbán Government Fidesz–FKGP–MDF Government after election Medgyessy Government MSZP–SZDSZ

Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 7 April 2002, with a second round of voting in 131 of the 176 single member constituencies on 21 April. Although Fidesz remained the largest party in the National Assembly despite receiving fewer votes than the Hungarian Socialist Party, the Socialist Party was able to form a coalition government with the Alliance of Free Democrats.

Results

Party		Proportional			SMCs (first round)			SMCs (second round)			Seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	National	Total	+/–
	Hungarian Socialist Party	2,361,997	42.05	69	2,277,732	40.50	24	2,011,845	45.77	54	31	178	+44
	Fidesz–Hungarian Democratic Forum	2,306,763	41.07	67	2,217,755	39.43	20	2,196,540	49.97	75	26	188	+23
	Alliance of Free Democrats	313,084	5.57	4	380,982	6.77	0	126,966	2.89	2	13	19	–5
	Hungarian Justice and Life Party	245,326	4.37	0	257,455	4.58	0	325	0.01	0	0	0	–14
	Centre Party–Christian Democratic People's Party	219,029	3.90	0	182,256	3.24	0	5,280	0.12	0	0	0	New
	Hungarian Workers' Party	121,503	2.16	0	108,732	1.93	0				0	0	0
	Independent Smallholders' Party	42,338	0.75	0	67,401	1.20	0	692	0.02	0	0	0	–48
	New Left Party	3,198	0.06	0	5,597	0.10	0				0	0	New
	Reform Smallholders' Party	1,086	0.02	0	2,758	0.05	0				0	0	New
	Social Democratic Party	912	0.02	0	590	0.01	0				0	0	0
	Hungarian Roma Party	745	0.01	0	589	0.01	0				0	0	New
	Smallholders' Party, Party of Smallholders' Alliance	451	0.01	0	2,699	0.05	0				0	0	New
	Hungarian Entrepreneurs' United Party	318	0.01	0	1,288	0.02	0				0	0	New
	Hungarian Socialist Party–Social Democratic Party				41,461	0.74	0	40,709	0.93	0	0	0	–
	Hungarian Socialist Party–Alliance of Free Democrats				27,892	0.50	1	13,101	0.30	0	0	1	–
	Green Party of Hungary				2,221	0.04	0				0	0	0
	Party of the Hungarian Interest				919	0.02	0				0	0	New
	Union for Solidarity				793	0.01	0				0	0	New
	Hungarian Pensioners' Party				685	0.01	0				0	0	New
	Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party				612	0.01	0				0	0	0
	Independent Hungarian Democratic Party				531	0.01	0				0	0	0
	Civic Democratic Party against Corruption				261	0.00	0				0	0	New
	Democratic Roma Party				171	0.00	0				0	0	New
	Independents				43,215	0.77	0				0	0	–1
Total		5,616,750	100.00	140	5,624,595	100.00	45	4,395,458	100.00	131	70	386	0
Valid votes		5,616,750	98.88		5,624,595	99.02		4,395,458	99.39
Invalid/blank votes		63,897	1.12		55,863	0.98		26,963	0.61
Total votes		5,680,647	100.00		5,680,458	100.00		4,422,421	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		8,061,101	70.47		8,061,101	70.47		6,018,069	73.49
Source: Valasztas, Election Resources

Party list results by county

Notes

1. Orbán became Prime Minister on 6 July 1998. He had previously been leader of Fidesz since 18 April 1993, but resigned partway through his premiership in January 2000, and did not become leader again until 2003.
2. Combined results for Fidesz (148 seats, 29.48%) and MDF (17 seats, 2.80%).
3. Medgyessy was selected as the MSZP's Prime Minister candidate in June 2001, but did not join the party, remaining an independent.
4. Including one deputy elected as a joint MSZP–SZDSZ candidate.

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p899 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p927
3. "2002. évi országgyűlési képviselő választás – Végleges adatok a területi választókerületi eredményekről".

External links

• National Electoral Office

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