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Hungarian parliamentary election, 1931

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Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 28 and 30 June 1931. The result was a victory for the Unity Party, which won 149 of the 245 seats in Parliament. István Bethlen remained Prime Minister, but resigned on 24 August due to the effects of the Great Depression and was replaced by Gyula Károlyi.

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Electoral system

The electoral system remained the same as in 1926. 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 132 of the 199 single-member constituencies, as 67 seats were uncontested.

b The number of votes refers to seven of the eleven MMCs.

c The total number of registered voters was 2,549,178; the figure in the table refers to the number of registered voters in the contested seats for which figures are available.

References

Hungarian parliamentary election, 1931 Wikipedia