Hungary Parliamentary election 2018 — Results
Election day: April 8, 2018
- Fidesz–KDNP: 49.27%, 133 seats
- Jobbik: 19.06%, 26 seats
- MSZP–Párbeszéd: 11.91%, 20 seats
- Democratic Coalition (DK): 5.38%, 9 seats
- LMP: 7.06%, 8 seats
- Others / minority / independents: 7.32%, 3 seats
Turnout: 69.73%
About this election
How the vote works
Hungary elects its 199-member unicameral National Assembly through a mixed-member majoritarian system, substantially redrawn by the Fidesz government in 2011. Of the 199 seats, 106 are filled in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post, and 93 are allocated from national party lists by proportional representation, with a 5% threshold for single parties (higher for coalitions). Crucially — and unlike Germany's compensatory MMP — the two tiers are not fully linked: a "winner compensation" rule transfers a winning constituency candidate's surplus votes to the party list, amplifying the seat bonus for the largest party. Combined with constituency boundaries widely criticised as favourable to Fidesz, this system allowed Fidesz to convert under half the vote into a two-thirds seat majority. One seat is reserved for the largest national minority list.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 30.21 points separated Fidesz–KDNP from Jobbik — 1,731,745 votes.
- Fidesz–KDNP converted 49.27% of the vote into 133 of 199 seats (66.83%), 17.56 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 68.33% of the vote between them, and 6 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for Fidesz–KDNP ranged from 57.77% in Vas to 38.15% in Budapest — a spread of 19.62 points across 20 regions, and it led in 20 of 20.
- Turnout of 69.73% is the highest of the 2 parliamentary elections covered here since 2018.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts