Country: | Hungarian Republic (1919–20) |
Previous Election: | 1910 |
Next Election: | 1922 |
Majority Seats: | 83 |
Election Date: | January 1920–October 1921 |
First Election: | yes |
Nopercentage: | yes |
Seats1: | 112 |
Party2: | Christian National Union Party |
Seats2: | 82 |
Seats3: | 6 |
Seats4: | 3 |
Party5: | Christian National Party (Hungary) |
Seats5: | 2 |
Seats6: | 1 |
Seats7: | 1 |
Party8: | Independents |
Leader8: | – |
Seats8: | 12 |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Károly Huszár |
Before Party: | KNEP |
After Election: | Sándor Simonyi-Semadam |
After Party: | KNEP |
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 25 and 26 January 1920.[1] However, they were only held in 164 districts.[2] After the Treaty of Trianon was signed, the 44 districts previously occupied by Romania voted between 13 June and 5 July, whilst the 11 districts occupied by Serbia did not vote until 30 and 31 October 1921.[3] The election was held with compulsory voting. In protest at this and other changes to the franchise that left 60% of the voting age population unable to vote, the Hungarian Social Democratic Party boycotted the elections,[4] and called for its supporters to cast invalid votes, resulting in an unusually high number of blank or invalid votes – 12% in the January elections and over 20% in Budapest and other major cities.[1]
The National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party and the Christian National Union Party won 194 of the 219 seats and formed a coalition government on 15 March.[5] However, it lasted only until 4 June when the Treaty of Trianon was signed.[5]