2024 European Parliament election in Hungary

The 2024 European Parliament elections in Hungary were held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election.^[3] This was the first European election to take place after Brexit and on the same day as local elections.^[4][5]

2024 European Parliament election in Hungary

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All 21 Hungarian seats to the European Parliament 11 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	59.46% ( 15.98 pp) [1]
First party Second party   Leader Tamás Deutsch Péter Magyar Party Fidesz–KDNP TISZA Alliance PfE EPP Last election 52.56%, 13 seats Did not exist Seats won 11 7 Seat change 2 New party Popular vote 2,048,211 1,352,699 Percentage 44.82% 29.60% Swing 7.74pp New party   Third party Fourth party   Leader Klára Dobrev László Toroczkai Party DK-MSZP-Párbeszéd MH Alliance S&D Greens/EFA ESN Last election 22.66%, 5 seats[2] 3.29%, 0 seats Seats won 2 1 Seat change 3 1 Popular vote 367,162 306,404 Percentage 8.03% 6.71% Swing 14.63pp 3.42pp
Results of the election by county.

Background

The European Parliament considers Hungary a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy" since 2022.^[6]

Electoral system

Main article: Electoral system of Hungary

Running parties and candidates

Running parties

Party			Main ideology	Lead Candidate	European party	EP Group	2019 result
							Votes (%)	Seats
	Fidesz–KDNP	- Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance - Christian Democratic People's Party	National conservatism Right-wing populism Soft Euroscepticism	Tamás Deutsch	none (Fidesz) EPP (KDNP)	PfE	52.56	13
	DK-MSZP-Párbeszéd	- Democratic Coalition - Hungarian Socialist Party - Dialogue – The Greens' Party	Social liberalism Social democracy Green politics	Klára Dobrev	PES (DK, MSZP) EGP (P)	S&D (DK, MSZP) Greens/EFA(P)	22.66	5[7]
	Momentum	- Momentum Movement	Liberalism	Anna Donáth	ALDE	Renew	9.93	2
	Jobbik	- Jobbik – Conservatives	Conservatism	Péter Róna	ECPM	none	6.34	1
	MH	- Our Homeland Movement	Ultranationalism Hard Euroscepticism	László Toroczkai	none	Europe of Sovereign Nations	3.29	0
	MKKP	- Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party	Social liberalism Political satire	Marietta Le	PPEU	Greens/EFA	2.62	0
	LMP	- LMP – Hungary's Green Party	Syncretic politics Green politics	Péter Ungár	EGP (suspended)	none	2.18	0
	TISZA	- TISZA – Respect and Freedom Party	Syncretic politics Anti-corruption	Péter Magyar	none	none	did not exist
	2RK	- Second Reform Era Party	Centrism	Gábor Vona	none	none	did not exist
	MMN	- Everybody's Hungary People's Party	Liberal conservatism	Péter Márki-Zay	none	none	did not exist
	MEMO	- Solution Movement	Digitalization	Viktor Huszár	none	none	did not exist

Full party lists

	Fidesz–KDNP[8]	DK–MSZP–Párbeszéd[9]	Momentum[10]	Jobbik [11]	MH[12]	MKKP[13]	LMP[14]	TISZA[15]	2RK[16]	MMN[17]	MEMO[18]
1.	Tamás Deutsch	Klára Dobrev	Anna Donáth	Péter Róna	László Toroczkai	Marietta Le	Péter Ungár	Péter Magyar	Gábor Vona	Péter Márki-Zay	Viktor Huszár
2.	Kinga Gál	Csaba Molnár	Katalin Cseh	Márton Gyöngyösi	Dóra Dúró	Katalin Törley	Erzsébet Schmuck	Dóra Dávid	Emese Pekárné Farkas	Botond Szalma	Dóra Karl
3.	András Gyürk	Ágnes Vadai	Tamás Győző Deli	Zoltán Balczó	Zsuzsanna Borvendég	Veronika Juhász	Örs Tetlák	Zoltán Tarr	Balázs Búzás	Tibor Bana	Dániel László Bogó
4.	Balázs Győrffy	Sándor Rónai	Viktória Vajda	Anita Kvárik	Szilveszter Kispalkó	Imre Tóth	Máté Kanász-Nagy	András Kulja	Adrián Száki	Anita Putz	Piroska Paksi
5.	György Hölvényi	Kata Tüttő	Dániel Berg	Róbert Dudás	József Árgyelán	András Becker	Krisztina Hohn	Eszter Lakos	Gábor Tóth	Tamás Mellár	Norbert Szilágyi
6.	Pál Szekeres	Zsolt Gréczy	Benedek Farkas	László György Lukács	Andreas Héjj	András Ecsedi-Derdák	János Kendernay	Gabriella Gerzsenyi	Andrásné Szilvási	Péter Pál Ember	Ferenc Horváth
7.	Viktória Ferenc	Richárd Barabás	Bedő Erik	Bence Nagy	Gyula Popély	Balázs Sándor	Gábor Hanák	Kinga Kollár	Viktor Póka	Balázs Kiss	Mihály Tóth
8.	Annamária Vicsek	Péter Heil	Máté Urfi	Béla Adorján	Patrik Orosz	Zakota Tamás	Dorottya Szabolcs	Csaba Bogdán	Árpád Burány	Fanni Kecskés
9.	Enikő Győri	Zita Gurmai	Levente Takács	Attila Fazekas	Ágnes Szent-Iványi	Richárd Szin	Viktor D'Elia	Viktor Weisz	Miklós Orbán
10.	András László	Lajos Oláh	Evelin Hornyák	Péter Balassa	Mihály Földesi		Mónika Andrasek	Dániel Molnár	Lívia Győri-Nagy
11.	Ernő Schaller-Baross	Krisztián Kocsis	Barnabás Kádár	Réka Lakatos	András Grundtner		László Perneczky	Andrea Anna Bujdosó	Marcell Imre
12.	Boglárka Ballester-Bólya	Balázs Barkóczi	Anna Mária Benza	Zoltán Magyar	János Lantos		András Szabó	Ildikó Sopov	Pál Ágoston
13.	Bernadett Petri	Gábor Harangozó	Mátyás Szilvási	Rajmund Baucsek	Zsuzsanna Fiszter		Zoltán Ságodi		Márton Tóth
14.	Barbara Hegedűs	László Sebián-Petrovszki	Zsuzsanna Nagy	Miklós Vincze	Attila László		Balázs Haladi-Bús		Róbert Oláh
15.	Ádám Kavecsánszki	Tímea Szabó	Alexandra Nikoletta Hulse	Krisztián Berta	Balázs Éberling				Norbert Riczu
16.	Hajnalka Juhász	László Andor	Péter Sajószegi	Dénes Szarka	Csaba Binder				József Dakó
17.	Ádám Kósa	Gergely Arató	Koppány Bendegúz Szarvas		Attila Vidó				Eszter Judit Kiss
18.	Dóra Hidas	Levente Dávid Bazin	György Juhász		Csongor Vékony				Martin Zsolt Gillich
19.	Edina Tóth	Olga Kálmán	András Csaba Horváth		Jenő Páli				Csanád Terdik
20.	Ágnes Zsófia Magyar	Gábor Erőss	Gábor Baranyi		Barna Bartha				Balázs Szőke
21.	Gábor Tordai-Lejko	Mátyás Eörsi	Dávid Bedő		Tamás Varga				Klára Simon

MEPs not standing for re-election

Name	Party	Date announced	Source
István Ujhelyi	Opportunity Community	2 June 2023	[19]
László Trócsányi	Fidesz	22 January 2024	[20]
Andor Deli	Fidesz	4 April 2024	[21]
Balázs Hidvéghi	Fidesz	4 April 2024	[21]
Andrea Bocskor	Fidesz	4 April 2024	[21]
Lívia Járóka	Fidesz	4 April 2024	[21]
Attila Ara-Kovács	Democratic Coalition	25 April 2024

Campaign

Debates

Location	Date	Participants
		Fidesz–KDNP	DK-MSZP-Párbeszéd	TISZA	Momentum	MH	MKKP	Jobbik	LMP	MMN	2RK	MEMO
Partizán	2024-05-17	N	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	not invited
M1	2024-05-30	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
ATV	2024-06-01	N	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	not invited

Opinion polling

See also: Opinion polling for the 2024 European Parliament election

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Fidesz-KDNP PfE	Momentum Renew	DK S&D	MSZP S&D	Párbeszéd G/EFA	LMP G/EFA	Jobbik NI	MMN EPP	MH ESN	MKKP G/EFA	MEMO EPP	NP NI	2RK NI	TISZA EPP	Other	Lead
Publicus	3–5 June 2024	1,001	43	4	15			1	2	–	5	4	–	–	–	25	1	18
Medián	27-29 May 2024	1,000	48	5	9			0	1	1	6	2	–	–	1	29	–	19
IDEA	20–29 May 2024	1,500	44	4	12			0	0	1	5	4	–	–	2	26	2	18
Társadalomkutató	May 2024	4,000	51	1	8			2	1	1	4	5	–	–	1	25	–	26
Real-PR 93	27-29 May 2024	1,000	45	1	10			–	1	1	5	7	1	–	2	28	–	17
Alapjogokért Központ	22-24 May 2024	1,000	47	2	8			1	1	1	6	6	1	–	1	26	–	21
Századvég	20-28 May 2024	1,000	45	3	10			1	1	1	6	9	–	–	1	23	–	22
Nézőpont	20-22 May 2024	1,000	47	1	9			1	1	1	7	7	1	–	1	24	–	23
Závecz Research	2–10 May 2024	1,000	39	4	17			1	1	2	6	3	–	–	1	26	0	13
IDEA	25 Apr–4 May 2024	1,500	40	4	17			0	1	1	4	5	–	2	3	21	2	19
Nézőpont	29 Apr – 2 May 2024	1,000	48	1	12			1	1	1	5	7	–	0	3	21	–	27
Publicus	26–30 Apr 2024	1,000	42	3	24			1	1	–	4	2	–	–	–	23	–	18
Medián	26–29 Apr 2024	1,000	45	4	9			1	1	2	4	6	–	1	2	25	–	20
Iránytű	17–19 Apr 2024	1,073	50	3	10			–	1	–	3	4	–	–	2	26	1	24
	9–12 Apr 2024		53	3	9			–	2	–	6	4	–	–	1	20	2	33
Závecz Research	4–11 Apr 2024	1,000	33	7	26			3	1	–	8	5	–	–	–	14	3	7
Nézőpont	2–4 Apr 2024	1,000	47	4	13			1	1	1	6	11	–	2	2	13	2	34
Ipsos	23 Feb–5 Mar 2024	1,025	47.6	7.2	16.5	–	–	2.6	2.8	3.0	9.6	4.2	2.0	–	–	–	4.7	31.1
Nézőpont	26–28 Feb 2024	1,000	47	7	14	2	2	2	2	4	8	8	–	1 0	4 0	–	–	33
21 Kutatóközpont	22–26 Feb 2024	1,200	44	9	18	2	1	2	3	3	7	8	–	1	2	–	–	26[a]
			44	9	17	1	1	3	2	5	5	6	–	3	3	–	–	27[b]
Republikon	Jun 2023	–	46	7	19	4	6		6	–	9	4	–	–	–	–	–	27
Nézőpont	15–17 May 2023	1,000	51	9	16	2	1	3	5	–	6	3	–	–	–	–	4	35
Závecz Research	28 Apr–5 May 2023	1,000	46	8	19	6	2	4	6	–	7	3	–	–	–	–	–	27
Nézőpont	2–4 Jan 2023	1,000	56	6	14	2	1	3	2	6	–	4	–	–	–	–	6	42
2022 parliamentary election	3 Apr 2022	–	54.1	34.4							5.9	3.3	1.0	–	–	–	1.3	19.7
2019 election	26 May 2019	–	52.6	9.9	16.1	6.6		2.2	6.3	–	3.3	2.6	–	–	–	–	0.4	36.5

Results

Turnout

Time	Votes	% Turnout	±% from 2019
7:00	148 427	1,88%	0.4pp
9:00	785 546	9,98%	2.2pp
11:00	1 802 332	22,89%	5.73pp
13:00	2 609 173	33,14%	9.13pp
15:00	3 310 686	42,04%	11.52pp
17:00	3 991 444	50,69%	13.63pp
18:30	4 416 794	56,09%	14.35pp
Overall	4 640 398	59,46%	15.98pp

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Fidesz–KDNP	2,048,211	44.82	11	–2
	Respect and Freedom Party	1,352,699	29.60	7	New
	DK–MSZP–Dialogue	367,162	8.03	2	–3
	Our Homeland Movement	306,404	6.71	1	+1
	Momentum Movement	169,082	3.70	0	–2
	Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party	163,960	3.59	0	0
	Jobbik – Conservatives	45,404	0.99	0	–1
	LMP – Hungary's Green Party	39,646	0.87	0	0
	Second Reform Era Party	30,961	0.68	0	New
	Everybody's Hungary People's Party	29,285	0.64	0	New
	Solution Movement	16,806	0.37	0	New
Total		4,569,620	100.00	21	0
Valid votes		4,569,620	98.58
Invalid/blank votes		65,949	1.42
Total votes		4,635,569	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		7,655,344	60.55
Source: Nemzeti Választási Iroda

Results by county and in the diaspora

County[22]	Fidesz-KDNP	TISZA	DK-MSZP-Párbeszéd	MH	Momentum	MKKP	Jobbik	LMP	2RK	MMN	MEMO	Turnout [23]
Bács-Kiskun	48.36	28.60	6.25	8.66	2.28	2.91	0.85	0.60	0.55	0.54	0.40	55,10%
Baranya	46.59	27.14	9.39	6.31	3.00	3.60	1.16	1.14	0.64	0.58	0.45	59,35%
Békés	45.57	29.82	7.23	8.67	2.32	2.63	1.26	0.63	0.64	0.82	0.41	56,16%
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén	48.77	27.30	7.97	7.57	2.13	2.32	1.77	0.64	0.52	0.55	0.46	58,13%
Budapest	33.12	32.81	12.30	4.46	7.89	5.92	0.40	1.39	0.91	0.50	0.32	63,98%
Csongrád-Csanád	38.32	31.71	7.84	8.52	3.61	4.03	0.67	0.62	0.60	3.76	0.33	58,71%
Fejér	45.88	29.21	7.14	7.42	3.00	3.83	1.18	0.70	0.68	0.52	0.43	58,83%
Győr-Moson-Sopron	48.02	30.55	5.97	6.58	2.66	3.07	0.86	0.90	0.61	0.44	0.37	62,66%
Hajdú-Bihar	48.13	30.28	5.89	7.46	2.94	2.54	0.83	0.61	0.59	0.45	0.29	55,06%
Heves	47.13	28.74	7.41	7.34	2.53	2.42	2.04	0.50	1.13	0.45	0.32	59,80%
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok	47.16	29.69	7.21	6.91	1.94	2.23	2.35	1.16	0.58	0.50	0.28	55,00%
Komárom-Esztergom	42.65	31.74	8.79	7.08	2.81	3.46	0.93	0.83	0.78	0.48	0.44	56,06%
Nógrád	51.60	24.43	8.04	8.85	1.66	2.30	1.07	0.75	0.49	0.47	0.35	59,56%
Pest	41.38	32.09	7.10	7.22	4.42	4.50	0.64	0.88	0.80	0.55	0.42	58,98%
Somogy	50.18	27.19	7.85	6.80	1.86	2.40	1.62	0.66	0.54	0.49	0.41	60,25%
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg	54.47	26.80	6.33	6.36	1.30	1.61	1.37	0.52	0.41	0.44	0.39	59,58%
Tolna	51.94	24.94	7.02	7.75	2.30	2.57	1.21	0.87	0.52	0.51	0.38	58,98%
Vas	51.30	26.73	7.15	5.91	2.70	2.98	0.81	0.91	0.55	0.59	0.37	64,76%
Veszprém	45.56	29.28	8.12	6.94	2.74	3.49	1.32	1.07	0.69	0.46	0.34	61,36%
Zala	49.83	28.19	7.14	6.74	2.83	2.52	0.99	0.53	0.46	0.43	0.32	62,16%
Foreign representations	18.86	50.82	3.77	2.26	12.08	9.65	0.20	0.58	1.07	0.54	0.16	-
Diaspora	90.03	4.42	0.83	1.97	0.90	0.95	0.15	0.29	0.11	0.21	0.14	-
Total	44.82	29.60	8.03	6.71	3.70	3.59	0.99	0.87	0.68	0.64	0.37	59,46%

Results by settlement size

Settlement size	Fidesz-KDNP[24]	TISZA[25]	DK-MSZP-Párbeszéd[26]	MH[27]
Budapest	33.1	32.8	12.3	4.5
Cities with county rights	38.8	35.1	9.2	6.1
20,000-	39.9	34.0	8.4	7.0
10,000-20,000	44.5	30.9	7.5	7.6
5,000-10,000	47.8	28.7	6.8	7.6
3,000-5,000	49.4	27.3	6.3	7.9
1,000-3,000	53.6	24.3	5.8	8.0
0-1,000	58.3	20.4	5.5	7.8

See also

• 2024 Hungarian local elections (same day)

Notes

1. without leaders
2. with leaders