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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.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidesz | 1,632,309 | 56.36 | 14 | +2 | |
| Hungarian Socialist Party | 503,140 | 17.37 | 4 | –5 | |
| Jobbik | 427,773 | 14.77 | 3 | New | |
| Hungarian Democratic Forum | 153,660 | 5.31 | 1 | 0 | |
| Politics Can Be Different + Humanist Party | 75,522 | 2.61 | 0 | New | |
| Alliance of Free Democrats | 62,527 | 2.16 | 0 | –2 | |
| Hungarian Communist Workers' Party | 27,817 | 0.96 | 0 | 0 | |
| Romani Alliance Party | 13,431 | 0.46 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 2,896,179 | 100.00 | 22 | –2 | |
| Valid votes | 2,896,179 | 99.15 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 24,769 | 0.85 | |||
| Total votes | 2,920,948 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 8,046,086 | 36.30 | |||
| Source: Valasztas.hu | |||||
| 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: |
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