Hungary 2002 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Hungarian Socialist Party won 178 of 386 seats with 42.0% of the vote; 70.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 14.3 points on 1998.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hungarian Socialist Party | 178 | +44 | 42.0 | +9.2 | 2,361,997 |
| Fidesz | 164 | +16 | 41.1 | +11.6 | 2,306,763 |
| Alliance of Free Democrats | 20 | −4 | 5.6 | −2.0 | 313,084 |
| Hungarian Justice and Life Party | 0 | −14 | 4.4 | −1.1 | 245,326 |
| Christian Democratic People's Party | 0 | 0 | 3.9 | +1.6 | 219,029 |
| Hungarian Workers' Party | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | −1.8 | 121,503 |
| Hungarian Democratic Forum | 24 | +7 |
± is the change against the Hungary 1998 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Hungarian Socialist Party 2,361,997
- Fidesz 2,306,763
- Alliance of Free Democrats 313,084
- Hungarian Justice and Life Party 245,326
- Christian Democratic People's Party 219,029
- Hungarian Workers' Party 121,503
- Hungarian Democratic Forum
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
70.5% of the 8,061,101 registered voters cast a ballot (5,685,655 ballots), up 14.3 points on 1998. 5,616,750 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1990. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Hungarian Socialist Party42.0% of votes46.1% of seats
- Fidesz41.1% of votes42.5% of seats
- Alliance of Free Democrats5.6% of votes5.2% of seats
- Hungarian Justice and Life Party4.4% of votes0.0% of seats
- Christian Democratic People's Party3.9% of votes0.0% of seats
- Hungarian Workers' Party2.2% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Hungarian Socialist Party led Fidesz by 1.0 point 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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