April 18, 2026, 9:51 p.mApril 18, 2026, 9:51 p.m
The victorious Peter Magyar in the Hungarian Parliament on Monday.Image: keystone
The official final result is available almost a week after the parliamentary elections in Hungary on April 12th. Accordingly, the previous conservative opposition party Tisza with its top candidate Peter Magyar won 141 of the 199 seats in parliament and thus eight mandates more than the two-thirds majority. The state election commission announced this after all ballot papers had been counted.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling right-wing populist party Fidesz received 52 seats. The extreme right-wing party Mi Hazank (Our Homeland) achieved six mandates. No other party made it into parliament. In the party list vote, Tisza got 53.18 percent, Fidesz 38.61 percent and Mi Hazank 5.63 percent.
The official result becomes legally valid as soon as any challenges have been legally resolved. President Tamas Sulyok can then convene the new parliament for its constituent session. According to the constitution, the latest possible date for this is May 12th.
Misleading namesake: Magyar speaks of fraud
Meanwhile, the election winner Magyar announced that he would challenge the vote in a constituency in the western Hungarian Vas county because of electoral fraud. According to him, voters there were misled because a Fidesz-affiliated, officially non-party candidate named Peter Magyar ran for office. This received 909 votes. This was the only way the official Fidesz candidate Peter Agh was able to win a parliamentary mandate with a very narrow lead over the Tisza candidate Viktoria Strompova. According to the electoral authority, Agh received 25,700 votes and Strompova received 25,452 votes.
In the constituency in question, “a deliberate, malicious deception based on the Russian model” and a “fraud” took place, Magyar explained in a video address on Facebook. The police had already initiated investigations into the legality of the candidacy of his non-party namesake before the election. A court will decide whether the election must be repeated in the constituency in question. There was initially no comment from Fidesz. Of the 199 parliamentarians in Hungary, 106 are elected directly in constituencies with a relative majority and the rest via party lists. (sda/dpa)