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Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 28 and 29 May 1939. The result was a victory for the Party of Hungarian Life, which won 181 of the 260 seats in Parliament. Pál Teleki remained Prime Minister.
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Electoral system
The electoral system was changed from that used in 1935. The number of single-member constituencies was reduced from 199 to 135, whilst the number of multi-member constituencies was raised from 11 to 38.
Results
a The number of votes refers to only 125 of the 135 single-member constituencies, as 10 seats were uncontested.
b The number of votes refers to 36 of the 38 MMCs as two were uncontested.
c The total number of registered voters was 4,629,493; the figure in the table refers to the number of registered voters in the contested seats.
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Hungarian parliamentary election, 1939 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA