Hungary 2009 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Fidesz–KDNP won 14 of 22 seats with 56.4% of the vote; 36.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.2 points on 2004.

Hungary
Held Sunday 7 June 2009

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Fidesz–KDNP	0		56.4		1,632,309
Hungarian Socialist Party	4	−5	17.4	−16.9	503,140
Jobbik	3		14.8		427,773
Hungarian Democratic Forum	1	0	5.3	0.0	153,660
Alliance of Free Democrats	0	−2	2.2	−5.6	62,527
Fidesz	13	+1
Christian Democratic People's Party	1

± is the change against the Hungary 2004 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party

Fidesz–KDNP 1,632,309
Hungarian Socialist Party 503,140
Jobbik 427,773
Hungarian Democratic Forum 153,660
Alliance of Free Democrats 62,527
Fidesz
Christian Democratic People's Party

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

36.4% of the 8,023,217 registered voters cast a ballot (2,920,948 ballots), down 2.2 points on 2004. 2,896,179 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Fidesz–KDNP56.4% of votes63.6% of seats
Hungarian Socialist Party17.4% of votes18.2% of seats
Jobbik14.8% of votes13.6% of seats
Hungarian Democratic Forum5.3% of votes4.5% of seats
Alliance of Free Democrats2.2% of votes0.0% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Fidesz–KDNP led Hungarian Socialist Party by 39.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.

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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