# 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections are expected to be held in Hungary in April 2026.

## Background
### Amendment of the electoral law

On 17 December 2024, the National Assembly voted changes about the 106 constituencies. As a result, the number of Budapest electoral districts decreased from 18 to 16, while in Pest County was increased by the same difference number. Border changes in some parts of Fejér County and Csongrád-Csanád County also happened.
The ruling Fidesz-KDNP made the decision citing changes in the results of latest census (2022), while according to the opposition, the real goal was to weaken their position in those – mainly capital – districts, where they were previously elected directly.

### The record Fidesz victory

On 3 April 2022, with 54.13% of the popular vote, Fidesz-KDNP received the highest vote share by any party since 1989 and won two-thirds of the seats for the fourth time. The united opposition suffered a massive defeat and was shortly after dissolved, its members sat in separate political groups in the National Assembly. From other minor parties, only Our Homeland Movement reached the threshold for entry, while Hungarian Two Tailed Dog Party did not.
Following the election, for a while only Democratic Coalition managed to achieve sustained double-digit poll results alongside Fidesz, but still lagged far behind the ruling parties.

### The rise of TISZA

On 2 February 2024, it was revealed that President Katalin Novák had granted a pardon in April 2023 to a criminal, involved in a pedophilia case. The scandal resulted Novák's resign, as did former justice minister Judit Varga, who had countersigned it. Not long after, Varga's ex-husband Péter Magyar published a Facebook post declaring that he would resign from his all government-related positions, stating that the past few years had made him realize that the idea of a "national, sovereign, bourgeois Hungary" stated as the goal of Viktor Orbán's rule was in fact a "political product" serving to obscure massive corruption and transfers of wealth to those with the right connections.
On 15 March, Magyar – despite initially refusing his participation in politics – held a rally attended by tens of thousands in Budapest at which he announced the formation of a new political party. According to polling conducted that month, around 15 percent of voters claimed they were "certain or highly likely" to vote for Magyar if he ran for office.
On 10 April, Magyar announced his bid to run in the European Parliament election with the until then unknown Respect and Freedom Party, which finished in 2nd place its nearly 30% result – the highest number and percentage of votes by any non-Fidesz party since 2006 –, eventuating collapse for other opposition parties with it and a new situation in Hungarian politics. By the end of the year, according to some polls, TISZA – breaking thus a trend that had lasted for 18 years – is already the most popular political party in Hungary, or at least a close competition with Fidesz could be expected in the next general election. Everybody's Hungary People's Party leader and former Prime Minister candidate Péter Márki-Zay said that only TISZA should run against Fidesz, as the one party to have a chance for defeat it.

## Electoral system

The 199 members of the National Assembly will be elected by mixed-member majoritarian representation with two methods; 106 will be elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting, while the other 93 will be elected from a single nationwide constituency, mostly by proportional representation. Seats are then allocated using the D'Hondt method.
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 ${\frac {1}{4\times 93}}={\frac {1}{372}}\approx 0.27\%$ of the total of party list votes. Each minority is able to send a minority spokesman – without the rights of an MP – to the National Assembly, if the list does not reach this lowered quota.

## Parties and coalitions

The following parties are represented in the National Assembly, or have commonly included in public opinion polling:
| Party/Coalition Full name | Party/Coalition Full name | Party/Coalition Full name | Party/Coalition Full name | Ideology | Leader(s) | 2022 result | 2022 result | Seats just before the election |
| Party/Coalition Full name | Party/Coalition Full name | Party/Coalition Full name | Party/Coalition Full name | Ideology | Leader(s) | Votes (%) | Seats | Seats just before the election |
| | Fidesz–KDNP | | Fidesz Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance | National conservatism | Viktor Orbán | 54.13 | 117 / 199 | 116 / 199 |
| | Fidesz–KDNP | | KDNP Christian Democratic People's Party | Christian right | Zsolt Semjén | 54.13 | 18 / 199 | 19 / 199 |
| | DK Democratic Coalition | DK Democratic Coalition | DK Democratic Coalition | Social liberalism | Ferenc Gyurcsány | 34.44 | 15 / 199 | 16 / 199 |
| | Jobbik Movement for a Better Hungary | Jobbik Movement for a Better Hungary | Jobbik Movement for a Better Hungary | Conservatism | Béla Adorján | 34.44 | 10 / 199 | 7 / 199 |
| | Momentum Momentum Movement | Momentum Momentum Movement | Momentum Momentum Movement | Liberalism | Márton Tompos | 34.44 | 9 / 199 | 9 / 199 |
| | MSZP Hungarian Socialist Party | MSZP Hungarian Socialist Party | MSZP Hungarian Socialist Party | Social democracy | Imre Komjáthy | 34.44 | 9 / 199 | 9 / 199 |
| | LMP LMP – Hungary's Green Party | LMP LMP – Hungary's Green Party | LMP LMP – Hungary's Green Party | Syncretic politics | Péter Ungár Katalin Szabó-Kellner | 34.44 | 5 / 199 | 3 / 199 |
| | Párbeszéd Dialogue for Hungary | Párbeszéd Dialogue for Hungary | Párbeszéd Dialogue for Hungary | Green politics | Richárd Barabás Rebeka Szabó | 34.44 | 4 / 199 | 2 / 199 |
| | MMN Everybody's Hungary People's Party | MMN Everybody's Hungary People's Party | MMN Everybody's Hungary People's Party | Liberal conservatism | Péter Márki-Zay | 34.44 | 1 / 199 | 1 / 199 |
| | Szikra Spark Movement | Szikra Spark Movement | Szikra Spark Movement | Democratic socialism | Collective leadership | 34.44 | 1 / 199 | 1 / 199 |
| | MH Our Homeland Movement | MH Our Homeland Movement | MH Our Homeland Movement | Hungarian nationalism | László Toroczkai | 5.88 | 6 / 199 | 6 / 199 |
| | MNOÖ National Self-Government of Germans in Hungary | MNOÖ National Self-Government of Germans in Hungary | MNOÖ National Self-Government of Germans in Hungary | German minority interests | Imre Ritter | 0.44 | 1 / 199 | 1 / 199 |
| | MKKP Hungarian Two Tailed Dog Party | MKKP Hungarian Two Tailed Dog Party | MKKP Hungarian Two Tailed Dog Party | Joke party | Gergely Kovács Zsuzsanna Döme | 3.27 | 0 / 199 | 0 / 199 |
| | A Nép Pártján (NP) On the People's Side | A Nép Pártján (NP) On the People's Side | A Nép Pártján (NP) On the People's Side | Populism | Péter Jakab | Did not exist | Did not exist | 1 / 199 |
| | 2RK Second Reform Era Party | 2RK Second Reform Era Party | 2RK Second Reform Era Party | Centrism | Gábor Vona | Did not exist | Did not exist | 0 / 199 |
| | TISZA Respect and Freedom Party | TISZA Respect and Freedom Party | TISZA Respect and Freedom Party | Liberal conservatism | Péter Magyar | Did not exist | Did not exist | 0 / 199 |
| | Függetlenek Independents | Függetlenek Independents | Függetlenek Independents | – | – | 0.53 | 3 / 199 | 8 / 199 |