2014 Budapest Assembly election

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All 33 seats in the General Assembly of Budapest
17 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Leader István Tarlós Csaba Horváth Gergely Karácsony [lower-alpha 1]
Party Fidesz–KDNP MSZP Együtt–PM
Last election17 seats10 seatsNew party
Seats won206 [lower-alpha 2] 2
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 3Decrease2.svg 4Increase2.svg 2
Popular vote277,873118,69356,506
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
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Leader Erzsébet Gy. Németh Marcell Tokody Antal Csárdi
Party DK Jobbik LMP
Last electionNew party33
Seats won211
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 2Decrease2.svg 2Decrease2.svg 2
Popular vote49,91840,59032,059
Budapest district mayoral election results, 2014.svg
Map showing district mayoral election winners by party colors. White stands for a winning independent candidate.

The 2014 Budapest Assembly election was held on 12 October 2014, concurring with other local elections in Hungary. Voters elected the Mayor of Budapest, and the mayors of the 23 districts directly, while 9 seats in the assembly were distributed proportionally, taking into account votes cast for losing district mayoral candidates. This was the first election held under these rules, previously all seats (except for the Mayor) were elected with a party-list method.

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Background

Regarding the Budapest Assembly election, the Fidesz-dominated National Assembly amended the electoral law in June 2014 after an announcement by Fidesz politicians Lajos Kósa and Antal Rogán, half a year before the local elections took place. The amendment, according to analysts, was formed according to the current interests of the ruling party, since it forced cooperation between rival opposition parties (MSZP, DK and Together–PM) in order to win district mayoral positions (and thus Budapest Assembly seats). [1] Only parties with at least 12 mayoral candidates could submit a compensation list. According to the Political Capital analysis think tank, this meant that the three largest opposition parties would have had to give up 7 districts, where all three of them run their own underdog candidate against the plausible Fidesz winner, while in the remaining 16 districts they cooperate and distribute among themselves in a ratio of 5–5–6. The Political Capital and the opposition parties criticized the Fidesz government, for amending the electoral law according to the current political situation months before the election, thereby reducing legal certainty and violating the ruling party's own adopted Constitution. [2]

The final result of the election (see below) finally justified the criticism. Index.hu calculated that under the old electoral system (party-list proportional rules) the Fidesz would have had only 16 mandates (15 + the mayor) instead of the 20 it won, therefore, the government party majority would not have been behind Mayor István Tarlós that way in the 33-member General Assembly of Budapest. [3]

Mayor

Incumbent Mayor István Tarlós was reelected with 49.06% of the votes.

District mayors

DistrictElected mayorPartyNumber of votes for winner
I. Gábor Tamás Nagy Fidesz–KDNP 5 914 [4]
II. Zsolt Láng Fidesz–KDNP 18 733 [5]
III. Balázs Bús Fidesz–KDNP 23 615 [6]
IV. Zsolt Wintermantel Fidesz–KDNP 18 276 [7]
V. Péter Szentgyörgyvölgyi Fidesz–KDNP 5 621 [8]
VI. Zsófia Hassay Fidesz–KDNP 5 686 [9]
VII. Zsolt Vattamány Fidesz–KDNP 7 089 [10]
VIII. Máté Kocsis Fidesz–KDNP 10 674 [11]
IX. János Bácskai Fidesz–KDNP 7 954 [12]
X. Róbert Kovács Fidesz–KDNP 10 585 [13]
XI. Tamás Hoffmann Fidesz–KDNP 25 777 [14]
XII. Zoltán Pokorni Fidesz–KDNP 13 893 [15]
XIII. József Tóth MSZP 28 140 [16]
XIV. Gergely Karácsony Együtt–PM 18 126 [17]
XV. László Hajdu DK 11 294 [18]
XVI. Péter Kovács Fidesz–KDNP 16 064 [19]
XVII. Levente Riz Fidesz–KDNP 18 887 [20]
XVIII. Attila Ughy Fidesz–KDNP 15 202 [21]
XIX. Péter Gajda MSZP 13 858 [22]
XX. Ákos Szabados MSZP–DK–Együtt–PM 10 564 [23]
XXI. Lénárd Borbély Fidesz–KDNP 12 158 [24]
XXII. Ferenc Karsay Fidesz–KDNP 8 964 [25]
XXIII. Ferenc Geiger Independent 3 061 [26]

Distribution of compensation seats

Compensation seats were distributed using the D'Hondt method.

PartyVotes for losing candidatesAdditional seats
MSZP 66 1313
Fidesz–KDNP 52 7812
Jobbik 40 5901
DK 38 6241
Együtt–PM 38 3801
LMP 32 0591

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Notes

  1. ↑ After the withdrawal of Ferenc Falus (hu)
  2. ↑ Including a joint candidate with other parties, Ákos Szabados (hu)

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