1920 Hungarian parliamentary election

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1920 Hungarian parliamentary election
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  1910 January 1920–October 1921 1922  

All 164 seats in the Diet
83 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeaderSeats
OKGFP István Szabó de Nagyatád 112
KNEP István Friedrich 82
NDP Gábor Ugron 6
KP István Haller 3
KNP István Friedrich 2
KSZGP Sándor Giesswein 1
MMOP 1
Independents 12
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister beforePrime Minister after election
Károly Huszár
KNEP
Sándor Simonyi-Semadam
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]

Contents

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]

Results

PartyJanuary 1920 [lower-alpha 1] June–July 1920 [lower-alpha 2] October 1921 [lower-alpha 3] Total
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%SeatsVotes%Seats
National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party [lower-alpha 4] 491,11442.3378113,69673.262932,35843.345112
Christian National Union Party 481,00841.467315,82410.20817,17423.00182
National Democratic Party 68,0095.8666
Christian Socialist Party 25,5752.2033
National Centre Party16,2001.4000
Party of Independence and '48 14,9281.2900
Hungarian Public Interest Party7,1420.6200
Christian Social and Economic Party 6,0400.5211
Christian National Party 4,7560.4101,0980.7125070.6802
Hungarian Workers' Party 2,1190.1801,6521.0611
Christian National '48 Party1,0870.0900
National Defence Party3,2704.3800
Christian Democratic Civic Party2,5223.3800
Independents42,1193.63322,93114.78418,82925.22512
Total1,160,097100.00164155,201100.004474,660100.0011219
Valid votes1,160,09788.17155,20196.9574,66097.75
Invalid/blank votes155,58011.834,8813.051,7162.25
Total votes1,315,677100.00160,082100.0076,376100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,487,54288.45182,22387.8582,11793.01
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Notes

  1. The number of votes for January 1920 elections is taken only from 83 of the 164 seats. In 37 of the remaining 81 seats there was only one candidate who was elected unopposed. [6]
  2. The number of votes is taken from only 13 of the 44 seats. In three of the remaining 31 seats there was only one candidate who was elected unopposed. [6]
  3. The number of votes is taken from only seven of the eleven seats. In one of the remaining four seats a candidate was elected unopposed. [6]
  4. The majority of candidates representing what would become the National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party contested the election as Christian Smallholders or Christian National Smallholders, as the united party was not formed until January 1922. [7]

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References

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  2. Hubai László (2001) Magyarország XX. századi választási atlasza I., p21 ISBN   963-9082-74-0
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