2002 Budapest Assembly election

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2002 Budapest Assembly election
  1998 20 Oct 2002 2006  

All 66 seats in the General Assembly of Budapest
34 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
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Leader Erzsébet Gy. Németh Kálmán Katona
Party MSZP Fidesz-MDF
Last election20 seats22 seats
Seats won2421
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 4Decrease2.svg 1
Popular vote262,998230,992
Percentage35.58%31.25%

 Third partyFourth party
  Demszky Gabor.jpg Csurka Istvan.jpg
Leader Gábor Demszky István Csurka
Party SZDSZ MIÉP
Last election18 seats6 seats
Seats won165
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 2Decrease2.svg 1
Popular vote171,24448,514
Percentage23.17%6.56%

The 2002 Budapest Assembly election was held on 20 October 2002, concurring with other local elections in Hungary.

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Mayor

Incumbent Gábor Demszky was directly elected mayor in a three-way race against Fidesz–KDNP supported independent candidate Pál Schmitt and MSZP candidate Erzsébet Gy. Németh with 46.70% of the vote.

Results

List seats were distributed using the D'Hondt method.

Budapest Assembly election, 2002 [1]
PartyCandidatesVotePercentageVote changeSeatsSeat change
Hungarian Socialist Party Erzsébet Gy. Németh
Tibor Bakonyi
Zoltán Ajkay
Pál Vajda
János Schiffer
...
262 998 35.58% Increase2.svg 8.08%24 Increase2.svg 4
Fidesz-Hungarian Democratic Forum Kálmán Katona
Tamás Deutsch
László Szőke
András Deák
Zsolt Wintermantel
...
230 992 31.25% Decrease2.svg 0.26%21 Decrease2.svg 1
Alliance of Free Democrats Gábor Demszky
András Bőhm
János Atkári
László Rajk
István Molnár
...
171 244 23.17% Decrease2.svg 2.02%16 Decrease2.svg 2
Hungarian Justice and Life Party István Csurka
László Zsinka
Zoltán Balczó
Zoltán Fenyvessy
Péter Pál Marsi
...
48 514 6.56% Decrease2.svg 2.56% 5 Decrease2.svg 1

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