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Hungarian parliamentary election, 1926

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1926

Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 8 and 15 December 1926. The result was a victory for the Unity Party, which won 161 of the 245 seats in Parliament. István Bethlen remained Prime Minister.

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Electoral system

Prior to the election the electoral system was changed again. In the previous elections there had been 219 constituencies, of which 195 were openly-elected single-member constituencies, 20 of which were secretly-elected single-member constituencies, and four of which were secretly-elected multi-member constituencies. For this election there were 199 openly-elected single-member constituencies and 11 secretly-elected multi-member constituencies electing a total of 46 seats.

Results

a The number of votes refers to only 109 of the 199 single-member constituencies as 90 seats were uncontested.

b The number of votes refers to ten of the eleven MMCs as one constituency was uncontested.

c The total number of registered voters was 2,231,972; the figure in the table refers to the number of registered voters in the contested seats.

References

Hungarian parliamentary election, 1926 Wikipedia