Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010

Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010

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Members elected →
All 386 seats to the Országgyűlés 194 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	64.36% and 46.52%
First party Second party   Leader Viktor Orbán Attila Mesterházy Party Fidesz MSZP Leader since 2003 – Last election 164 190 Seats won 263 / 386 Fidesz 227, KDNP 36 59 / 386 Seat change 99 131 Popular vote 2,706,292 990,428 Percentage 52.73% 19.30% Swing 10.70% 23.91%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Gábor Vona András Schiffer Party Jobbik LMP Leader since 2006 – Last election 0 New party Seats won 47 / 386 16 / 386 Seat change 47 16 Popular vote 855,436 383,876 Percentage 16.67% 7.48% Swing 16.67% 7.48%
Map showing winning parties   seats won by Fidesz (173)   seats won by MSZP (2)   seat won by independent candidate (1)
Prime Minister before election Gordon Bajnai MSZP Subsequent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Fidesz

Gordon Bajnai
MSZP

Viktor Orbán
Fidesz

Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 11 and 25 April 2010 to choose MPs for the National Assembly. They were the sixth free elections since the end of communist era. 386 members of parliament were elected in a combined system of party lists and electoral constituencies.

In the first round of the elections, the conservative party Fidesz won the absolute majority of seats, enough to form a government on its own. In the second round Fidesz-Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) candidates won enough seats to achieve a two-thirds majority required to modify major laws and the country's constitution.

Fidesz's landslide victory was a result of massive dissatisfaction with and voting in protest against MSZP, the Hungarian Socialist Party, which had been in government since 2002, and it was one event and its consequences especially that provoked resentment: in 2006 Ferenc Gyurcsány, the contemporary Prime Minister of Hungary, delegated by MSZP, made a private speech in front of MSZP party members, in which he, although generally outlining a direction to a new beginning and a moral paradigm change in day-to-day policy making, admitted to having been lying to the general public in different matters through a prolonged time during the campaign running up to the previous election, which had resulted among others in his reelection. This speech surfaced in the press in the Autumn of 2006, and resulted in nationwide protests.