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.

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: 
# The list votes must be summed up.
# If a national minority secures all national list votes divided by 93, then divided by 4, they receive a preferential mandate.
# The number of preferential mandates obtained by national minorities must be subtracted from the total number of available list mandates.
# 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%.
# Fractional votes must be added to the parties' votes, while the preferential quota must be subtracted from the national minorities' votes.
# 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.

## Parties 
### Running parties 
* Respect and Freedom Party
* Fidesz–KDNP Party Alliance
* 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

## Notes