Election Name: | 2009 European Parliament election in Hungary |
Country: | Hungary |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | no |
Previous Election: | 2004 European Parliament election in Hungary |
Previous Year: | 2004 |
Next Election: | 2014 European Parliament election in Hungary |
Next Year: | 2014 |
Seats For Election: | All 22 seats of Hungary in the European Parliament |
Election Date: | 7 June 2009 |
1Blank: | European Parliament Group --> |
Colour1: | FF8000 |
Leader1: | Pál Schmitt |
Party1: | Fidesz–KDNP |
Alliance1: | European People's Party |
Last Election1: | 12 |
Seats1: | 14 |
Seat Change1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 1,632,309 |
Percentage1: | 56.37% |
1Data1: | Pál Schmitt |
2Data1: | EPP |
Colour2: | CC3333 |
Leader2: | Kinga Göncz |
Party2: | Hungarian Socialist Party |
Alliance2: | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
Last Election2: | 9 |
Seats2: | 4 |
Seat Change2: | 5 |
Popular Vote2: | 503,140 |
Percentage2: | 17.37% |
1Data2: | Kinga Göncz |
2Data2: | PES |
Colour3: | 333333 |
Leader3: | Krisztina Morvai |
Party3: | Jobbik |
Alliance3: | Non-Inscrits |
Last Election3: | 0 |
Seats3: | 3 |
Seat Change3: | 3 |
Popular Vote3: | 427,773 |
Percentage3: | 14.77% |
1Data3: | Krisztina Morvai |
Colour4: | 15803C |
Leader4: | Lajos Bokros |
Party4: | Hungarian Democratic Forum |
Alliance4: | European Conservatives and Reformists |
Last Election4: | 1 |
Seats4: | 1 |
Seat Change4: | 0 |
Popular Vote4: | 153,660 |
Percentage4: | 5.31% |
1Data4: | Lajos Bokros |
2Data4: | EPP |
Colour5: | 97D550 |
Leader5: | Tímea Szabó |
Party5: | Politics Can Be Different |
Alliance5: | Non-Inscrits |
Last Election5: | new |
Seats5: | 0 |
Seat Change5: | new |
Popular Vote5: | 75,522 |
Percentage5: | 2.61% |
Colour6: | 1CA8E6 |
Leader6: | István Szent-Iványi |
Party6: | Alliance of Free Democrats |
Alliance6: | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group |
Last Election6: | 2 |
Seats6: | 0 |
Seat Change6: | 2 |
Popular Vote6: | 62,527 |
Percentage6: | 2.16% |
Map Size: | 350px |
An election of Members of the European Parliament from Hungary to the European Parliament was held in 2009. Hungary delegated 22 members to the European Parliament based on the Nice treaty and the election took place on 7 June.
Among the candidates that ran were:
The election in Hungary took place according to the 2003 CXIII. law about European election and the 1997 C. election law. According to this the country consists of a single election district and those parties will be put on the ballot who could collect 20,000 proposal coupons.[1] [2] Eight qualified lists were approved by Hungarian authorities to be put on the ballot, of which two of them were shared lists. Fidesz shared its party list with the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) to create a joint Fidesz-KDNP list, and Politics Can Be Different shared its party list with the Humanist Party to create a joint LMP-HP list.
Source | Date | Fidesz | MSZP | SZDSZ | MDF | Jobbik | others |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Medián[3] | 25 February 2009 | 63% | 25% | 4% | 2% | 4% | 2% |
Medián[4] | 18 March 2009 | 66% | 23% | 2% | 4% | 4% | 1% |
Tárki[5] | 30 March 2009 | 62% | 23% | 3% | 3% | 4% | 5% |
Marketing Centrum[6] | 30 March 2009 | 61% | 25% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 2% |
Progresszív Intézet[7] | 13 April 2009 | 62% | 25% | 3% | 5% | 3% | 2% |
Medián[8] | 15 April 2009 | 70% | 18% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 4% |
Századvég-Forsense[9] | 21 April 2009 | 70% | 18% | 2% | 1% | 5% | 4% |
Forsense[10] | 27 April 2009 | 63% | 27% | 2% | 2% | 6% | 1% |
Tárki[11] | 29 April 2009 | 64% | 22% | 4% | 2% | 4% | 4% |
Gallup[12] | 8 May 2009 | 68% | 21% | 1% | 2% | 5% | 3% |
Századvég-Forsense[13] | 26 May 2009 | 71% | 17% | 1% | 2% | 6% | 3% |
Nézőpont[14] | 27 May 2009 | 66% | 14% | 4% | 6% | 7% | 3% |
Tárki[15] | 27 May 2009 | 70% | 17% | 3% | 1% | 4% | 5% |
Szonda Ipsos[16] | 28 May 2009 | 67% | 21% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 3% |
Marketing Centrum[17] | 1 June 2009 | 61% | 19% | 5% | 4% | 8% | 5% |
Medián[18] | 3 June 2009 | 60% | 21% | 4% | 4% | 7% | 4% |
The European Parliament elections' biggest winners were the centre-right opposition Fidesz party, which won 56% of the vote and 14 seats. The far-right Jobbik ("For a Better Hungary") party also performed stronger than expected. The Hungarian Democratic Forum also gained one seat, so the former finance minister Lajos Bokros could travel to Brussels.
The liberal Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) was almost wiped off the political map, attracting only 60,000 votes or 2%, compared to more than a million in the country's first free elections 19 years ago.
County[19] [20] | Fidesz-KDNP | MSZP | Jobbik | MDF | LMP-HP | SZDSZ | Workers' Party | MCF | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bács-Kiskun | 65.34 | 13.30 | 12.41 | 4.40 | 1.65 | 1.49 | 0.83 | 0.58 | |
Baranya | 59.94 | 18.21 | 10.70 | 5.29 | 2.55 | 1.68 | 0.94 | 0.69 | |
Békés | 57.07 | 17.02 | 16.56 | 4.58 | 1.60 | 1.34 | 1.49 | 0.35 | |
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén | 49.11 | 19.30 | 22.88 | 4.05 | 1.54 | 1.15 | 1.23 | 0.75 | |
Budapest | 48.12 | 22.30 | 12.59 | 6.54 | 4.88 | 4.46 | 0.93 | 0.17 | |
Csongrád | 58.32 | 17.64 | 12.53 | 5.90 | 2.46 | 1.78 | 1.21 | 0.15 | |
Fejér | 58.73 | 16.79 | 13.90 | 5.48 | 2.35 | 1.69 | 0.91 | 0.16 | |
Győr-Moson-Sopron | 64.48 | 14.34 | 11.75 | 5.44 | 1.89 | 1.32 | 0.65 | 0.13 | |
Hajdú-Bihar | 60.63 | 12.58 | 17.10 | 5.25 | 1.96 | 1.15 | 0.93 | 0.39 | |
Heves | 50.06 | 19.23 | 20.17 | 4.74 | 1.75 | 1.67 | 1.19 | 1.20 | |
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok | 53.35 | 17.76 | 19.02 | 4.76 | 1.65 | 1.42 | 1.73 | 0.32 | |
Komárom-Esztergom | 55.43 | 21.02 | 12.53 | 5.74 | 2.05 | 1.88 | 1.07 | 0.28 | |
Nógrád | 54.04 | 17.70 | 18.68 | 4.36 | 1.39 | 1.21 | 1.88 | 0.73 | |
Pest | 56.71 | 15.03 | 16.63 | 5.43 | 2.98 | 2.20 | 0.73 | 0.29 | |
Somogy | 64.34 | 16.51 | 10.94 | 4.18 | 1.58 | 1.25 | 0.85 | 0.34 | |
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg | 57.36 | 14.15 | 18.49 | 4.18 | 1.14 | 1.04 | 0.86 | 2.77 | |
Tolna | 64.38 | 15.34 | 11.68 | 4.76 | 1.53 | 1.25 | 0.71 | 0.34 | |
Vas | 68.37 | 13.31 | 9.25 | 4.96 | 1.78 | 1.66 | 0.53 | 0.13 | |
Veszprém | 60.11 | 16.41 | 13.44 | 5.34 | 2.20 | 1.59 | 0.77 | 0.14 | |
Zala | 63.13 | 14.63 | 12.94 | 5.15 | 1.60 | 1.52 | 0.70 | 0.33 | |
Foreign representations | 50.45 | 11.90 | 15.40 | 6.34 | 9.84 | 5.83 | 0.03 | 0.21 | |
Total | 56.36 | 17.37 | 14.77 | 5.31 | 2.61 | 2.16 | 0.96 | 0.46 |
On the Fidesz Party list:
On the Hungarian Socialist Party list:
On the Jobbik Party list:
On the Hungarian Democratic Forum Party list:
Alliance of Free Democrats Party leader Gábor Fodor announced that he will offer his resignation in case his party will not reach the 5% limit needed for representation in the European Parliament (the same limit is applied in national elections). After the election results were published Fodor repeated his statement promising to offer his resignation to the party congress the following day. The election result ultimately caused mass resignations including Fodor in the leadership of SZDSZ and internal turmoil in the party. The election results prompted an intense debate about the future of the party in MSZP as well.