Hungary 1998 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fidesz won 148 of 386 seats with 29.5% of the vote; 56.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 12.7 points on 1994.
- Hungary
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hungarian Socialist Party | 134 | −75 | 32.9 | −0.1 | 1,497,231 |
| Fidesz | 148 | +128 | 29.5 | +22.5 | 1,340,826 |
| Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party | 48 | +22 | 13.1 | +4.3 | 597,820 |
| Alliance of Free Democrats | 24 | −45 | 7.6 | −12.1 | 344,352 |
| Hungarian Justice and Life Party | 14 | +14 | 5.5 | +3.9 | 248,901 |
| Hungarian Workers' Party | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | +0.8 | 179,672 |
| Hungarian Democratic Forum | 17 | −21 | 2.8 | −8.9 | 127,118 |
| Christian Democratic People's Party | 0 | −22 | 2.3 | −4.7 | 104,892 |
| Independents | 1 | 2.3 |
± is the change against the Hungary 1994 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Hungarian Socialist Party 1,497,231
- Fidesz 1,340,826
- Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party 597,820
- Alliance of Free Democrats 344,352
- Hungarian Justice and Life Party 248,901
- Hungarian Workers' Party 179,672
- Hungarian Democratic Forum 127,118
- Christian Democratic People's Party 104,892
- Independents
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
56.3% of the 8,062,708 registered voters cast a ballot (4,536,254 ballots), down 12.7 points on 1994. 4,483,974 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fidesz29.5% of votes38.3% of seats
- Hungarian Socialist Party32.9% of votes34.7% of seats
- Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party13.1% of votes12.4% of seats
- Alliance of Free Democrats7.6% of votes6.2% of seats
- Hungarian Democratic Forum2.8% of votes4.4% of seats
- Hungarian Justice and Life Party5.5% of votes3.6% of seats
- Hungarian Workers' Party4.0% of votes0.0% of seats
- Christian Democratic People's Party2.3% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.5 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Hungarian Socialist Party led Fidesz by 3.4 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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