Hungary’s National Electoral Office has published the first voting results for the country’s parliamentary elections.
After processing 6.56% of the data, opposition leader Peter Magyar’s TISA party took the lead, where it could gain 110 seats in the 199-seat parliament.
Second place goes to the Fidesz party led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, which, according to preliminary information, has 71 seats.
In addition, the far-right “Our Homeland” party can obtain nine seats.
Meanwhile, after processing 2.86% of party voting data, Fidesz leads with 48%, followed by TESA with 43%.
These are preliminary results and data may change during the screening process.
Hungary has a complex system for counting votes in elections. The majority of representatives – 106 out of 199 – are elected in single-member constituencies by a relative majority of votes. At the same time, another 93 seats are distributed among parties that exceeded the electoral threshold of 5%. Moreover, these states are not distributed proportionally, but taking into account the rather complex system of compensatory votes, He writes “BBC Russian Service”. The final counting of votes must, by law, occur no later than the sixth day after Election Day, i.e. April 18.