In Hungaryunlike most countries in the European Union, its citizens are allowed to vote even if they do not have the of age (18 years). The condition to do so is that you are married before the age of 18, as stated in the country’s electoral law. Thus, voters who have not been disqualified by a court of law have been able to vote (if they wanted, as it is not mandatory) for the closed lists of the parties that are candidates.

For these european elections, Hungary elects 21 of the 720 deputies of the European Parliament. And it does so with a bad participation record, although in the past it improved considerably: if in 2014 only less than 29% of voters participated in the elections, in 2019 just over 43% did so. And although Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz has taken close to half of the votes, the truth is that it is one of the worst results of the nationalist party in the last decades. According to the provisional data provided by the European Parliament, these would be the results in Hungary:

  • Fidesz-KDNP – 43.76%
  • TISZA – 30.70%
  • DK-MSZP-P – 8.25%
  • My Hazánk – 6.77%

The big surprise has been the approach of Peter Magyar, the leader of TISZA, recently arrived in politics and with the commitment to eradicate corruption and revive the democratic balance that Orbán has made disappear in Hungary. With these results, the distribution of the 21 Hungarian seats between the different European Parliament groups It would look like this:

  • PPE – 8 seats
  • S&D – 2 seats
  • Not registered – 10 seats
  • Others – 1 seat