Hungarian parliamentary election, 1939

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Hungarian parliamentary election, 1939
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  1935 28–29 May 1939 1944  

All 260 seats in the Diet
131 seats needed for a majority
Turnout84.4%
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Pal Teleki Portrait-PM.png Ferenc Szalasi.jpg
Leader Pál Teleki Tibor Eckhardt Ferenc Szálasi
Party MÉP FKGP NYKP
Last election164 seats, 44.6%22 seats, 19.6%did not contest
Seats won1811429
Seat changeIncrease2.svg17Decrease2.svg8
Popular vote1,824,573569,054530,405
Percentage49.5%15.4%14.4%
SwingIncrease2.svg4.9%Decrease2.svg4.2%

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
  Szakasits Arpad 1949.jpg Palffy Fidel 1944.jpg
Leader Árpád Szakasits Fidél Pálffy János Salló
Party MSZDP EMNSZP NF
Last election11 seats, 6.7%did not contestdid not contest
Seats won543
Seat changeDecrease2.svg6
Popular vote126,63778,80664,355
Percentage3.4%2.1%1.7%
SwingDecrease2.svg3.3%

 Seventh partyEighth partyNinth party
  Zichy Janos.jpg
Leader Károly Rassay Károly Maróthy János Zichy
Party PSZP KNSZF EKP
Last electiondid not contestdid not contestdid not contest
Seats won534
Seat change
Popular vote58,63957,53356,943
Percentage1.6%2.4%1.5%
Swing

Prime Minister before election

Pál Teleki
MÉP

Elected Prime Minister

Pál Teleki
MÉP

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Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 28 and 29 May 1939. [1] The result was a victory for the Party of Hungarian Life, which won 181 of the 260 seats in Parliament. Pál Teleki remained Prime Minister. [2] It won 72 percent of the parliament's seats and won 49 percent of the popular vote in the election. [3] This was a major breakthrough for the far-right in Hungary. [3]

Hungary Country in Central Europe

Hungary is a country in Central Europe. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres (35,920 sq mi) in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world. Hungary's capital and largest city is Budapest. Other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr.

Pál Teleki Prime Minister of Hungary

Count Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék was prime minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 19 July 1920 to 14 April 1921 and from 16 February 1939 to 3 April 1941. He was also a famous expert in geography, a university professor, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Chief Scout of the Hungarian Scout Association. He descended from a noble family from Alsótelek in Transylvania.

Far-right politics are politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of extreme nationalism, nativist ideologies, and authoritarian tendencies.

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Electoral system

The electoral system was changed from that used in 1935. The number of single-member constituencies was reduced from 199 to 135, whilst the number of multi-member constituencies was raised from 11 to 38. [4] [5]

Results

PartySMCsMMCsTotal
Votes [a] %SeatsVotes [b] %SeatsVotes%Seats+/–
Party of Hungarian Life 766,69451.31121,057,87948.2691,824,57349.5181+17
Independent Smallholders Party 228,57115.31340,48315.513569,05415.414–8
Arrow Cross Party 192,35612.97338,04915.422530,40514.429New
Social Democratic Party 12,6300.80113,6075.25126,6373.45–6
United Hungarian National Socialist Party 54,8873.7323,9191.1178,8062.14New
National Front 28,3411.9236,0141.6164,3551.73New
Civic Freedom Party 8730.1057,7662.6558,6391.65
Christian National Socialist Front 40,1142.7147,4192.2257,5332.43New
United Christian Party 19,9701.3336,9731.7156,9431.54–11
Unofficial Party of Hungarian Life candidates46,8023.1046,8021.30–6
Hungarian National Socialist Agricultural Labourers' and Workers' Party 13,0100.9123,1271.1236,1371.03New
National Reform Party4,4890.3017,6330.8022,1220.60New
Christian National Independence Party14,0240.6014,0240.40New
Hungarian National Socialist Party 10,8720.7010,8720.30–2
People's Will Party 8,9700.118,9700.210
National Smallholders, Craftsmen and Workers Party6,1100.406,1100.20New
Independent People's Party3,5680.203,5680.10New
National Agricultural Labourers, Craftsmen and Workers Party3,4530.203,4530.10New
Christian Opposition 2,3840.102,3840.10–1
Hungarian Racist Party1,2880.21,2880.00New
Independents22,8981.54422,8986.28–2
Invalid/blank votes70,581150,938221,519
Total1,546,1301001352,343,9921001253,908,122100260+15
Registered voters/turnout1,719,22191.02,636,55788.94,355,778 [c] 89.7
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

a The number of votes refers to only 125 of the 135 single-member constituencies, as 10 seats were uncontested. [4]

b The number of votes refers to 36 of the 38 MMCs as two were uncontested. [4]

c The total number of registered voters was 4,629,493; the figure in the table refers to the number of registered voters in the contested seats. [4]

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p899 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p940
  3. 1 2 Georgi Karasimeonov. Cleavages, parties, and voters: studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. Pp. 70.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Nohlen & Stöver, pp920-921
  5. Nohlen & Stöver, p933