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Hungary

Eastern Europe

Hungary has a Unicameral parliament with the use of voluntary party quotas. 29 of 199 (15%) seats in the Országgyülés / National Assembly are held by women.

At a glance

Structure of parliament	Unicameral

Are there legislated quotas

For the Single / Lower house?	No
For the Upper house?	No
For the Sub-national level?	No

Are there voluntary quotas?

Adopted by political parties?	Yes

Is there additional information?	No

Single / Lower House

Országgyülés / National Assembly

Total seats	199
Total women	29
Percentage of women	15%
Gender Quota target
Election year	2022
Electoral system	MMP
Quota type
Election details	IDEA Voter Turnout - IPU Parline

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Voluntary Political Party Quotas*

Party	Official Name	Details, Quota provisions
Hungarian Socialist Party	Magyar Szocialista Párt (MSzP)	MSzP has a 20 percent quota for women (Ványi, 2016; Fodor, 2013).
Politics Can be Different	Lehet Mas a Politika (LMP)	In the party's National Assembly and European Parliament electoral lists maximum two repeated candidates of the same sex may follow each other.

* Only political parties represented in parliament are included. When a country has legislated quotas in place, only political parties that have voluntary quotas that exceed the percentage/number of the national quota legislation are presented in this table.

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Additional information

Sources

Legal Sources:

Constitution of Hungary - Link
Election Law (amended through 2013, 2022, 2023) - Link
Political Parties Law - Link

Other Sources:

Parliament of Hungary - Link
Electoral Commission - Link
Ványi, É. 2016. "The representation of women in the government decision making in Hungary. Woman’s participation at the middle-level". Page 124. Published 16 November 2016. Accessed 8 March 2022.
Fodor, E. 2013. "The Policy on Gender Equality in Hungary - Update 2013". European Parliament. Page 7. Accessed 8 March 2022.
Interparliamentary Union [IPU]. Hungary Country Profile. Parline.

Additional reading

See the latest updates on Hungary on iKNOW Politics
G. Ilonszki & A. Vajda (2019), "Women’s Substantive Representation in Decline: The Case of Democratic Failure in Hungary". Politics & Gender, 15 (2019), 240–261.
Varnagý, R. 2013. "Women's Representation in the Hungarian Parliament". OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Published December 2013. Accessed 1 October 2018.
Ilonszki, G. 2000. ‘Gloomy Present, Bright Future? A Gender Perspective of Party Politics in Hungary.’ Paper presented at the Perspectives for Gender Equality Politics in Central and Eastern Europe Workshop, The Peace Institute, Ljubljana, May.
Jalusic, V. and Antic, M. 2000. Prospects for Gender Equality Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. Vienna: Institute for Human Sciences.
Szalai, J. 1998. ‘Women and Democratization: Some Notes on Recent Changes in Hungary’ Jacquette, Jane and Sharon L. Wolchik: Women and Democracy. Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. John Hopkins University Press, pp. 185-202.
Petö, A. 1997. ‘Hungarian Women in Politics’ Joan Scott, Cora Kaplan and Debra Keats (eds.). Transitions, Environments, Translations: The Meanings of Feminism in Contemporary Politics. New York. Routledge.
Hungarian Parliament website, http://www.parlament.hu/

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