Hungary election 2022: projections and results at a glance
Created: 4/4/2022 9:14 am
By: Leyla Yildiz, Philipp Kuserau
Hungary election: Peter Marki-Zay (left) or Viktor Orban – who will be prime minister?
© Peter Kohalmi/John Thys/AFP
Elections will be held in Hungary on April 3, 2022.
The population should elect a new parliament.
Projections and results will be available on election night.
Hungary election 2022: The current projections in the overview
Counted votes: | 92.57 percent |
|---|---|
Fidesz (Orban) | 53.42 percent |
EM (Marki-Zay opposition alliance) | 34.69 percent |
Mi Hazank | 6.27 percent |
Status: 00:08, source: vtr.valasztas.hu
Update from April 3, 11:05 p.m.: Well
over 70 percent of the votes have now been counted.
Fidesz's very large lead over the opposition party alliance EM at the beginning of the count is shrinking as the count progresses.
Fidesz is currently at 54.4 percent - in the first projection it was just under 62 percent.
The opposition currently stands at 33.7 percent.
Update from April 3, 10:23 p.m.:
53 percent of the votes cast should now be counted.
According to current projections, the Fidesz alliance around Prime Minister Victor Orban would retain its 2/3 majority in parliament and would hold 134 of the 199 seats in parliament.
However, a large number of votes still have to be counted.
Update from April 3, 10:04 p.m .:
The counting of votes is progressing quickly!
In the meantime, around 48 percent are said to have been counted.
Fidesz values go down a little with each comparison.
According to the latest extrapolation, Fidesz is now only 56.7 percent, while EM is at 31.7 percent.
The right-wing party Mi Hazank has 6.5 percent.
Projections and results of the 2022 Hungarian elections: a clear trend is emerging
Update from April 3, 9:57 p.m .:
According to a recent extrapolation, around 36 percent of the votes counted indicate that the mood in Hungary is still clear.
According to the extrapolation, Fidesz is 58.1 percent, the opposition alliance EM was able to increase a little and is at 30.4 percent.
Update from April 3, 9:38 p.m.:
According to Europe Elects, a platform that shows the results of various European opinion research institutes, around 28 percent of the votes have already been counted in Hungary.
Europe Elects sees Fidesz at 59.4 percent, the opposition at 29.4 percent.
Results of the parliamentary elections in Hungary: First projections put Fidesz ahead
Update from April 3, 9:18 p.m .:
Finally there is a first projection: MTVA, a media company financed by the Hungarian state and also owned by it, published the first figures a few minutes ago.
They read as follows: According to projections, the party alliance Fidesz with Prime Minister Orban would come to 61.9 percent, the opposition party alliance EM to 27 percent.
According to this extrapolation, the right-wing party Mi Hazank comes to 6.6 percent.
Further extrapolations and consequently also the first partial results will be published in the course of the evening.
Update from April 3, 8:22 p.m .:
There is no first projection yet, but at least Hungary’s national electoral office announced that it would publish the first data at 9 p.m.
Projections and results of the 2022 Hungarian election: the counting of votes is sometimes delayed
Update from April 3, 7:59 p.m .:
There is still no officially published projection for the 2022 Hungarian election. Some patience is probably required.
In Hungary, allegations of manipulation in connection with the election have recently been raised.
Update from April 3, 7:02 p.m.:
Officially, the polling stations in Hungary should have recently closed their doors.
The first projections are therefore expected shortly.
However, according to broadcaster Euronews, vote counts could be delayed in some parts of the country as many people are still queuing to cast their votes.
Significant partial results can probably only be expected around 11 p.m.
Projections and results for the 2022 Hungarian elections: Will there be political change?
First report:
Budapest – The upcoming Hungarian elections on April 3, 2022 could mean a change for the country.
The previous Prime Minister Viktor Orban (Hungarian Viktor Orbán) is running again for the alliance of his party Fidesz with the Christian-democratic KDNP.
However, he has a major competitor in the mayor of the city of Hódmezővásárhely, Peter Marki-Zay (Hungarian: Péter Márki-Zay).
The 49-year-old is the candidate of the opposition parties, who want to use this move to have Orban elected from office.
According to current surveys and forecasts, his chances are not that bad.
According to experience, the first projections and results of the election will already be available on the evening of the election.
What is chosen? | houses of Parliament |
election day | Sunday April 3, 2022 |
opponent of Viktor Orban | Peter Marki-Zay |
seats in parliament | 199 |
constituencies | 106 |
Hungary election 2022: projections after the polling stations are closed - results will follow afterwards
But how does the election work on the first Sunday in April, which
Merkur.de
reports on in the news ticker?
According to past experience, the polling stations are open until 7 p.m. – the first projections are available shortly thereafter.
However, it could be due to a rush of voters that the bars are open a little longer.
That was the case in the last parliamentary election in 2018.
All citizens who arrived at the polling place before 7 p.m. still had the opportunity to cast their vote after the official closure.
Immediately afterwards, the ballot papers were evaluated.
As
Der Spiegel
writes in an article from 2018, a provisional result was expected around midnight in this election.
This could happen again in the coming determination of Parliament.
Elections in Hungary: Out of concern about manipulation of the results - OSCE wants to send election observers
In any case, it is clear that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) wants to send a squad of election observers to Hungary in advance.
Another 200 observers are expected to be on duty on election day itself.
The reason: There is a fear that the election could be manipulated and that the projections or results will be in favor of Viktor Orban and his party.
Only the election day itself can show whether manipulation is really taking place.
Nevertheless, it is a fateful choice: because then it will be clear whether Viktor Orban will continue to steer Hungary's politics or whether a new prime minister will be confirmed in office with Peter Marki-Zay.
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