2026 Hungarian parliamentary election

The **2026 Hungarian parliamentary election** will be the tenth general parliamentary elections in Hungary since the change of regime on 12 April 2026.

## Electoral system

According to Hungary's constitution, the election takes place in April or May of the fourth year following the election of the previous Parliament, and the President sets the specific date at least 72 days before the election. The day of the vote may not fall on a national holiday or public holiday (e.g. 1 May), nor on the day before or after, nor on Easter Sunday or Pentecost Sunday. Hungarian elections must be held on Sundays.

President Tamás Sulyok called the elections on 13 January 2026 for 12 April.

The single-round election is regulated by Act CCIII of 2011. There are 199 members of the National Assembly, and the electoral system is a mixed majority system: 106 MPs are elected by a relative majority in individual constituencies, and 93 MPs are elected by proportional representation on party or nationality lists, with the addition of fractional votes. 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 the total of party list votes. Fractional votes are those votes that did not win a mandate in the constituencies, and also include the winner's "surplus" votes that were not needed to win.

Candidates who stood as independents, or were nominated by a party that did not have a national list, or did but did not reach the parliamentary threshold, cannot have their votes counted as a fraction of a vote. Thus, if such a candidate wins, the 'surplus' votes no longer needed to win are lost, while if he loses, all the votes cast for him are lost.

### Election of individual MPs

To become a candidate for an individual constituency, 500 signatures must be collected under the electoral laws. One representative is elected in each individual constituency in a single-round, single-X vote, and the candidate who receives the most votes is elected.

### Election of party list MPs

A party list can be nominated by a party that has an individual candidate in 71 constituencies, but at least in 14 counties and Budapest. To nominate a national list, the recommendations of 1% of the voters registered in the national register, but at least 1500 people, must be collected.

Nationality voters may decide to vote for their nationality list, in which case they cannot vote for a party list. When the seats are distributed, votes from nationality lists are also taken into calculation. Hungarians outside the borders who do not have a Hungarian address may vote only on party lists.

#### The distribution of mandates:

1. The list votes must be summed up.
1. If a national minority secures all national list votes divided by 93, then divided by 4, they receive a preferential mandate.
1. The number of preferential mandates obtained by national minorities must be subtracted from the total number of available list mandates.
1. The mandates must be distributed among:
    - Parties that reach 5% (for dual lists, 10%, and for triple or more lists, 15%),
    - National minorities that reach 5%.
1. Fractional votes must be added to the parties' votes, while the preferential quota must be subtracted from the national minorities' votes.
1. The mandates are distributed using the D'Hondt method:
    - Create a table: the first row contains the votes, the second row contains half the votes, the third row contains one-third of the votes, the fourth row contains one-quarter of the votes, and so on.
    - The largest numbers are "circled."
    - Each party/minority receives as many mandates as there are "circles" in their column.

Nationalities that do not win a mandate can send one nationality representative to the National Assembly. The spokesperson has the same rights as MPs, except that he or she cannot vote on decisions of parliament.

In the electoral system, the list is a closed list, and the order of the candidates on the list, as established by the parties, cannot be changed by the voters through preferential votes.

### Running parties

- Respect and Freedom Party
- Fidesz–KDNP Party Alliance
- Hungarian Socialist Party
- Our Homeland Movement
- Hungarian Workers' Party
- Democratic Coalition
- Movement for a Better Hungary
- Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party
- Party of Solidarity
- Party for Normal Life
- Direction of the Future Party

### Withdrawn parties

- Momentum Movement
- Everybody's Hungary People's Party
- LMP – Hungary's Green Party
- Social Democratic Party of Hungary
- Spark Movement
- Solution Movement
- Second Reform Era Party
- The Party of the Fatherland
- Hungarian Humanists' Party

## Infobox (election)

- **country**: Hungary
- **flag year**: 2026
- **type**: parliamentary
- **vote type**: Popular
- **ongoing**: yes
- **previous election**: 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election
- **previous year**: 2022
- **election date**: 12 April 2026
- **seats for election**: All 199 seats in the National Assembly (Hungary), National Assembly
- **majority seats**: 100
- **colour1**: fe6b00
- **leader1**: Viktor Orbán
- **party1**: Fidesz
- **alliance1**: Fidesz–KDNP
- **leader since1**: 17 May 2003
- **last election1**: 135 seats
54.1%
- **seats before1**: 135
- **colour2**: ed4350
- **leader2**: Péter Magyar
- **party2**: Respect and Freedom Party, TISZA
- **leader since2**: 22 July 2024
- **last election2**: _Did not contest_
- **seats before2**: 0
- **party4**: Democratic Coalition (Hungary), DK
- **leader4**: Klára Dobrev
- **leader since4**: 1 June 2025
- **last election4**: 16 seats
- **seats before4**: 16
- **party5**: Our Homeland Movement, MH
- **leader5**: László Toroczkai
- **leader since5**: 23 June 2018
- **last election5**: 6 seats
5.9%
- **seats before5**: 6
- **title**: cabinet
- **before election**: Fifth Orbán Government
- **before party**: Fidesz–KDNP
- **posttitle**: Elected cabinet
- **after election**: TBD
- **after party**: TBD
- **election name**: 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election
- **alliance4**: United for Hungary