2014 Hungary Parliament Election Sunday April 06,2014

A parliamentary election was held in Hungary on Sunday April  06,2014 which was the first election according to the new constitution of Hungary which went into force on  January  01,2012.

For the first time since Hungary's transition to democracy, the election had a single round. The voters elected 199 MPs instead of previous 386 lawmakers

A total of 2,304 hopefuls applied for official candidate status in the parliamentary election by 3, 4 March p.m. deadline, the National Election Office announced.
Finally, candidacy of 1,531 people has been accepted after completion of the registration process.

Under Hungary's election law, parties that enter individual candidates in at least 27 constituencies in nine counties and Budapest can field a national list.
The joint list of the ruling Fidesz–KDNP, led by PM Viktor Orbán, became the first national list registered for the April parliamentary election by the National Election Committee (NVB) on February  21,2014

Eighteen national party lists registered until March  08,2014

National Election Office(NVI) added the following 14 organizations beside the parliamentary parties to the scope of contenders: Homeland Not For Sale Movement Party (HNEM), Hungarian Workers' Party, Party for a Fit and Healthy Hungary (SEM), the Social Democratic Civic Party (Soc Dems), the Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKGP), the Together 2014 Party, the New Hungary Party (ÚMP), ex-Socialist Katalin Szili's Community for Social Justice People's Party (KTI), the Gypsy Party of Hungary (MCP), the Green Party (Greens), the New Dimension Party (ÚDP), the Democratic Community of Welfare and Freedom (JESZ), the Unity Party (ÖP) and Alliance of Mária Seres (SMS)

The election campaign officially began on February  15,2014, 50 days prior to election according to the law

Incumbent PM Viktor Orban Re-elected

After 96% of the ballots were counted from Sunday's parliamentary vote, an official projection gave Orban's Fidesz party 133 of the 199 seats, guaranteeing that it will form the next government.
 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has declared victory in Sunday's parliamentary election, winning a second consecutive term.His centre-right Fidesz has polled 45%, with most of the votes counted.

A centre-left opposition alliance is trailing with 25% and is projected to have 39 MPs while the far-right Jobbik party is credited with 21%.and will likely have 25 seats.

Members of the voting commitee count the votes at a polling station in Budapest, Hungary, on April 6, 2014

Viktor Orban first rose to prominence as a long-haired student dissident, calling in a 1989 speech for Soviet troops to leave the country and for free and fair elections. Since then he has turned the Fidesz movement that he formed with like-minded young liberals into a potent political force.
The father-of-five became prime minister as a fresh-faced 35-year-old in 1998 but lost to the Socialists four years later and again in 2006.