| Election Name: | 2022 Hungarian presidential election |
| After Party: | Fidesz |
| After Election: | Katalin Novák |
| Before Party: | Fidesz |
| Before Election: | János Áder |
| President | |
| Percentage1: | 68.84% |
| Country: | Hungary |
| Electoral Vote1: | 137 |
| Party1: | Fidesz |
| Alliance1: | Fidesz–KDNP |
| Nominee1: | Katalin Novák |
| Image1: | Katalin Novák, 2023 (cropped).jpg |
| 1Blank: | Nominators |
| Percentage2: | 25.63% |
| Electoral Vote2: | 51 |
| Party2: | Independent politician |
| Alliance2: | United for Hungary |
| Nominee2: | Péter Róna |
| Election Date: | 10 March 2022 |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Hungarian presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 2017 |
| Previous Election: | 2017 Hungarian presidential election |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Type: | presidential |
| Colour2: | 20B2AA |
An indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 10 March 2022.[1] Katalin Novák became the first female President of Hungary after winning an absolute majority.[2] [3]
Incumbent president of the Republic János Áder was ineligible to run due to term limits.[4] There were two candidates for the largely ceremonial post. The governing alliance, Fidesz-KDNP nominated Katalin Novák, the former minister for Family Affairs and an ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as its presidential candidate.[5] The opposition alliance, United for Hungary nominated Péter Róna, a lawyer and economist as its presidential candidate.[6]
Under the current Constitution of Hungary adopted by the Fidesz–KDNP government coalition in 2011, the President must be elected in a secret ballot by the Members of Parliament, no sooner than sixty but no later than thirty days before expiry of the mandate of the previous office-holder, or if his or her mandate terminated prematurely, within thirty days of the termination. The constitution authorizes the Speaker of the National Assembly to set the date for the election.[7]
A presidential candidate needs the written nomination of at least one-fifth of the Members of Parliament (thus 40 MPs), who may not nominate more than one candidate; it is thus mathematically impossible for there to be more than four candidates. In the first round of the election, a two-thirds majority of all incumbent MPs is required to elect the president. If this condition is not fulfilled, a second round is held between the two candidates who received the highest and second highest numbers of votes in the first round. A simple majority of the voting MPs is then sufficient.
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) is re-submitting an amendment proposal to postpone the parliamentary election of Hungary's president until after the parliamentary election in the spring of 2022, the party said on 5 August 2021.[8]
Since 1990, there have been no more than two candidates in any presidential election held in Hungary.
| Name | Party | Nominators | Notes | Offices held | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katalin Novák | Fidesz | Fidesz–KDNP | Minister for Family Affairs (2020–2021) | ||
| Péter Róna | Independent | United for Hungary | — |
| Candidate | Party | Alliance | 1st round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % ofall MPs | % ofvoting MPs | ||||
| Katalin Novák | Fidesz | Fidesz–KDNP | 137 | 68.84 | 72.87 | |
| Péter Róna | Independent | United for Hungary | 51 | 25.63 | 27.13 | |
| Invalid votes | 5 | 2.51 | - | |||
| Total votes | 193 | 96.98 | 100 | |||
| Did not vote | 6 | 3.02 | ||||
| Total seats | 199 | 100 | ||||