Electoral system for national legislature

English: National Legislation Database, Act CCIII of 2011 on the election of the Members of the National Assembly, accessed 10 March 2025 

Hungarian: Nemzeti Jogszabálytár, 2011. évi CCIII. törvény az országgyűlési képviselők választásáról, accessed 10 March 2025

Section 1

3. Number of the Members of the National Assembly Section 3 

(1) The number of the Members of the National Assembly shall be one hundred and ninety-nine. 

(2) One hundred and six Members of the National Assembly shall be elected from singlemember constituencies and ninety-three from national list.

Section 12

(1) A voter with domicile in Hungary may cast a vote for a) one single-member constituency candidate and b) one party list. 

(2) A voter with domicile in Hungary and recorded in the electoral register as national minority voter may cast a vote for a) one single-member constituency candidate and b) the list of his national minority or, in the absence thereof, one party list. 

(3) A voter with no domicile in Hungary may cast a vote for one party list.

Section 13 

In a single-member constituency, Member of the National Assembly shall be the candidate who received the highest number of valid votes. 

Section 14 

(1) No mandate shall be allocated to a party list that did not receive at least five per cent of the total of valid votes cast for party lists and national minority lists. 

(2) No mandate shall be allocated to a joint party list that did not receive at least ten per cent or, if the joint party list was drawn up by more than two political parties, fifteen per cent of the total of valid votes cast for party lists and national minority lists. 

(3) No mandate shall be allocated to a national minority list that did not receive the number of votes required for winning a preferential national minority mandate under section 16 d) (hereinafter: preferential quota).

Section 15 

(1) Votes cast in a single-member constituency a) for a candidate who did not win the mandate, or b) that remain after deducting the number of votes for the runner-up candidate plus one from the number of votes for the candidate who won the mandate shall constitute wasted votes. 

(2) If in a single-member constituency two or more candidates receive equal number of votes representing the highest number of votes, all votes cast for the single-member constituency candidates in that single-member constituency shall constitute wasted votes. 

(3) The wasted votes cast for the individual single-member constituency candidates of a political party shall constitute wasted votes for the independent party list. 

(4) The wasted votes cast for the joint single-member constituency candidates of political parties that were involved in drawing up the joint party list featuring the same political parties shall constitute wasted votes for the joint party list.

For more information, please read section 16 of the act.