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2026 Hungarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 12 April 2026 to elect all 199 members of the National Assembly.

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POLITICS: Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 12 April 2026 to elect all 199 members of the National Assembly. It was the 10th parliamentary election and the highest-turnout election since Hungary's transition to democracy in 1990.
The incumbent Fidesz-KDNP government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Tisza Party, led by MEP and former Fidesz member Péter Magyar, ending the 16-year Orbán era. The Tisza Party won 141 seats out of the 199 in the National Assembly, enough for a two-thirds supermajority, the legislative threshold to amend the Fundamental Law.
In so doing, Tisza won both the largest number of votes and the largest percentage of seats that a Hungarian political party has ever won in a free election.
This Bay News archive item is based on public reporting collected for the desk file.