2019 Budapest Assembly election

The 2019 Budapest Assembly election was held on 13 October 2019, concurring with other local elections in Hungary. Voters elected the Mayor of Budapest, and the mayors of the 23 districts directly, while 9 seats in the assembly were distributed proportionally, taking into account votes cast for losing district mayoral candidates.

2019 Budapest Assembly election

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All 33 seats in the General Assembly of Budapest 17 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Gergely Karácsony István Tarlós Party Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP Fidesz–KDNP Last election 11 seats 20 seats Seats won 18 13 Seat change 7 7 Popular vote 350,837 293,479
Map showing district mayoral election winners by party colors.

Mayor

Main article: 2019 Budapest mayoral election

Gergely Karácsony was elected mayor with 50.86% of the vote, defeating incumbent István Tarlós who held the office since 2010.

District mayors

The opposition won the majority of district mayoral races.

District	Incumbent	Party		Elected Mayor	Party
I.	Gábor Tamás Nagy		Fidesz–KDNP	Márta V. Naszályi		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
II.	Zsolt Láng		Fidesz–KDNP	Gergely Őrsi		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
III.	Balázs Bús		Fidesz–KDNP	László Kiss		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
IV.	Zsolt Wintermantel		Fidesz–KDNP	Tibor Déri		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
V.	Péter Szentgyörgyvölgyi		Fidesz–KDNP	Péter Szentgyörgyvölgyi		Fidesz–KDNP
VI.	Zsófia Hassay		Fidesz–KDNP	Tamás Soproni		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
VII.	Zsolt Vattamány		Fidesz–KDNP	Péter Niedermüller		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
VIII.	Botond Sára[a][1]		Fidesz–KDNP	András Pikó		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
IX.	János Bácskai		Fidesz–KDNP	Krisztina Baranyi		Opposition coalition[b] Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
X.	Róbert Kovács		Fidesz–KDNP	Róbert Kovács		Fidesz–KDNP
XI.	Tamás Hoffmann		Fidesz–KDNP	Imre László		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
XII.	Zoltán Pokorni		Fidesz–KDNP	Zoltán Pokorni		Fidesz–KDNP
XIII.	József Tóth		MSZP	József Tóth		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
XIV.	Gergely Karácsony		PM	Csaba Horváth		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
XV.	Angéla Németh[c][2]		DK	Angéla Németh		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
XVI.	Péter Kovács		Fidesz–KDNP	Péter Kovács		Fidesz–KDNP
XVII.	Levente Riz[3] †[d][4]		Fidesz–KDNP	Tamás Horváth		Fidesz–KDNP
XVIII.	Attila Ughy		Fidesz–KDNP	Sándor Szaniszló		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
XIX.	Péter Gajda		MSZP	Péter Gajda		Opposition coalition Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP
XX.	Ákos Szabados		Independent[e]	Ákos Szabados		Independent
XXI.	Lénárd Borbély		Fidesz–KDNP	Lénárd Borbély		Fidesz–KDNP
XXII.	Ferenc Karsay		Fidesz–KDNP	Ferenc Karsay		Fidesz–KDNP
XXIII.	Ferenc Geiger[7]		Independent	Ferenc Bese		Independent

• Italics denote a mayor not running for reelection

In case of joint candidates, bold denotes the party to which the candidate personally belongs. In the 23 districts, 14 opposition or opposition supported candidates won, with 9 government-aligned or government-supported mayors. This is a sharp improvement for the opposition as they previously only occupied 4 of these mayorships.

In most of the cities, the assembly majority is composed of members aligned with the mayor, except:^[8]

• X., with a Fidesz-KDNP mayor, and no clear majority
• XX., with an independent (Fidesz-KDNP supported) mayor, and opposition majority
• XXI., with a Fidesz-KDNP mayor, and no clear majority
• XXII., with a Fidesz-KDNP mayor, and opposition majority

In XXIII., the mayor's civil organization together with Fidesz-KDNP members have a majority.

Party list seats

Party	Votes for losing candidates	Additional seats
Fidesz–KDNP	195 274	6
Momentum–DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd–LMP	86 380	3

Candidates elected on the Fidesz–KDNP list: István Tarlós (1.) – did not take his seat Gábor Bagdy (2.) Zsolt Láng (4.) Zsófia Hassay (5.) Zsolt Wintermantel (8.) – did not take his seat Gábor Tamás Nagy (14.)

Candidates elected on the Momentum–DK–MSZP–Dialogue–LMP list: Kata Tüttő (2., MSZP) Erzsébet Gy. Németh (3., DK) Gábor Havasi (4., Momentum)

Number in parentheses is the candidate's original position on the list, as some list candidates were elected to a mayorship.

Tarlós announced on 15 October 2019, that he won't take his seat.^[9] This caused Attila Ughy (list position 15) to take his seat instead. Zsolt Wintermantel did not take either his seat on 28 October; he was replaced by Gábor Pintér, according to the request of the Fidesz–KDNP alliance.^[10] Botond Sára (9.) and Tamás Hoffmann (11.) were elected into the local representative bodies in their districts, therefore they were excluded from the party compensation list.^[11]

Breakdown of seats

The opposition won a majority in the Assembly, breaking over 15 years of a Fidesz majority.

Party		Seats (mayor)	Seats (district)	Seats (list)	All	Change	Group
	MSZP	0	6	1	7	2	18
	DK	0	3	1	4	2
	Momentum	0	3	1	4	4
	Párbeszéd	1	1	0	2
	Other opposition	0	1	0	1	1
	Fidesz–KDNP	0	7	6	13	7	13
	Independents	0	2	0	2	1	2

Detailed results

District	Fidesz-KDNP		Opposition		Others (only listed if >2%)
I.[12]	Gábor Tamás Nagy	5 904 47.34%	Márta V. Naszályi (Dialogue)	6 025 48.31%	Eszter Jakab-Novák (Independent)	542 4.35%
II.[13]	Zsolt Láng	19 377 47.34%	Gergely Őrsi (MSZP)	21 557 52.66%
III.[14]	Balázs Bús	26 749 49.58%	László Kiss (MSZP)	27 206 50.42%
IV.[15]	Zsolt Wintermantel	18 257 45.7%	Tibor Déri (Momentum)	20 174 50.5%	Tibor Pajor (Our Homeland Movement)	891 2.23%
V.[16]	Péter Szentgyörgyvölgyi	5 450 52.49%	Kata Tüttő (MSZP)	4 410 42.47%	Pál Losonczy (Jobbik)	371 3.57%
VI.[17]	Zsófia Hassay	5 409 42.51%	Tamás Soproni (Momentum)	7 314 57.49%
VII.[18]	Zsolt Vattamány	7 093 41.04%	Péter Niedermüller (DK)	8 279 47.9%	László Moldován (Independent)	1 009 5.84%	György Hunvald (Independent)	902 5.22%
VIII.[19]	Botond Sára	10 972 48.42%	András Pikó (nominated by Momentum)	11 241 49.6%
IX.[20]	János Bácskai	8 376 39.54%	Krisztina Baranyi (Independent, selected in a primary)	12 188 57.53%
X.[21]	Róbert Kovács	12 569 51.48%	Csaba Somlyódy (MSZP)	10 922 44.73%	István Tubák (Jobbik)	693 2.84%
XI.[22]	Tamás Hoffmann	26 854 43.19%	Imre László (DK)	31 411 51.48%	Domokos Lengyel (Independent)	2 014 3.24%
XII.[23]	Zoltán Pokorni	16 462 59.57%	Norbert Élő (DK)	11 171 40.43%
XIII.[24]	Gábor Bagdy	8 554 18.11%	József Tóth (MSZP)	38 669 81.89%
XIV.[25]	Zoltán Rozgonyi	18 302 37.03%	Csaba Horváth (MSZP)	24 873 50.33%	László Várnai (Independent)	5 177 10.48%
XV.[26]	Gábor Pintér	12 063 39.32%	Angéla Németh (DK)	16 860 54.96%	Judit Victorné Kovács (Independent)	1 505 4.91%
XVI.[27]	Péter Kovács	18 803 57.42%	Gábor Nemes (DK)	12 705 38.8%	Viktor Schaffer (Independent)	1 238 3.78%
XVII.[28]	Tamás Horváth	18 711 51.82%	Erzsébet Gy. Németh (DK)	13 364 37.01%	Gergő Fachet (Independent)	4 030 11.16%
XVIII.[29]	Attila Ughy	18 554 45.73%	Sándor Szaniszló (MSZP)	20 698 51.02%	István Luka (Independent)	854 2.1%
XIX.[30]	Gabriella Dódity	8 810 37.17%	Péter Gajda (MSZP)	13 885 58.58%	Gyula Fonyódi (Independent)	1 008 4.25%
XX.[31]	none		Róbert Balog	10 549 48.63%	Ákos Szabados (Independent)	11 144 51.37%
XXI.[32]	Lénárd Borbély	14 899 52.54%	Éva Erdősi (MSZP)	12 260 43.23%	József Pákozdi (Independent)	971 3.42%
XXII.[33]	Ferenc Karsay	11 311 48.15%	Gábor Havasi (Momentum)	10 999 46.82%	János Iván (Independent)	1 181 5.03%
XXIII.[34]	none		Miklós Bereczki (Jobbik)	4 077 46.25%	Ferenc Bese (Independent)	4 291 48.68%	Zoltán Bernáth (Independent)	447 5.07%

Italics means incumbent, bold means winner of the election.

Notes

1. Elected in a by-election in 2018
2. Baranyi was an independent candidate supported by these parties
3. Elected in a by-election in 2018
4. Died in office 19 September 2019, after already announcing retirement
5. Left MSZP in 2015. Was supported by Fidesz–KDNP in the election.^[5][6]