2014 European Parliament election in Hungary

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All 21 Hungarian seats to theEuropean Parliament
Turnout	28.97%[1]
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Ildikó Pelczné Gáll Krisztina Morvai Tibor Szanyi Party Fidesz–KDNP Jobbik MSZP Alliance EPP NI S&D Last election 14 seats, 56.37% 3 seats, 14.77% 4 seats, 17.37% Seats won 12 3 2 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 1,193,991 340,287 252,751 Percentage 51.48% 14.67% 10.9%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Csaba Molnár Benedek Jávor Tamás Meszerics Party DK Együtt–PM LMP Alliance S&D Greens/EFA Greens/EFA Last election New party New party 0 seats, 2.61% Seats won 2 1 1 Seat change New party New party 1 Popular vote 226,086 168,076 116,904 Percentage 9.75% 7.25% 5.04%

An election ofMembers of the European Parliament fromHungary to theEuropean Parliament was held on 25 May 2014.^[2]

With theLisbon Treaty coming into force, Hungary held 22 seats in the European Parliament. However, becauseCroatia joined the EU in 2013, it now holds 21 seats to the Parliament.

Eight Hungarian parties took part in the European elections:

• MSZP – Magyar Szocialista Párt (Hungarian Socialist Party)
• SMS – Seres Mária Szövetségei (Alliance of Mária Seres)
• Fidesz–KDNP – Fidesz-Magyar Polgári Szövetség – Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt (Fidesz–Hungarian Civic Alliance – Christian Democratic People's Party)
• HNEM – A Haza Nem Eladó Mozgalom Párt) (The Homeland Not For Sale Movement Party)
• Jobbik – Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom (Movement for a Better Hungary)
• LMP – Lehet Más a Politika (Politics Can Be Different)
• Együtt–PM – Együtt-A Korszakváltók Pártja – Párbeszéd Magyarországért Párt (Together–Party for a New Era – Dialogue for Hungary)
• DK – Demokratikus Koalíció (Democratic Coalition)

Three parties were refused registration:Democratic Community of Welfare and Freedom (JESZ),Modern Hungary Movement (MoMa), and New Hungary Party (ÚMP).^[3]

Fidesz won with second highest proportion of votes in Europe, after theLabour Party in Malta. Prime MinisterViktor Orbán congratulated to all elected MEPs. He said "they will be outpost of the Hungarians as they will defend the home in foreign land".^[14] The ruling party received 12 seats, strongly enhancing theEuropean People's Party (EPP) drive to achieve a majority in the European Parliament.Martin Schulz,S&D candidate forPresident of the European Commission, said the People's Party could win the election just because of the "eurosceptic and populist"Forza Italia and Fidesz results, which is "embarrassing for the conservatives".^[15] German Vice-ChancellorSigmar Gabriel also called the Fidesz "extremist".^[16] Deputy Prime MinisterZsolt Semjén rejected Gabriel's statements and noted "he does not remember that Gabriel had spoken against whenRobert Fico'sSmer entered into a coalition with the fascistJán Slota-ledSlovak National Party".^[17]

The Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) suffered its largest defeat since the1990 parliamentary election,^[18] while far-right Jobbik came to the second place for the first time since its establishment.Gábor Vona said his party, based on the results, could be the main challenger to the Fidesz in the 2018 parliamentary election.^[19] However, as political analyst Zoltán Lakner argued, Jobbik appeared in the election significantly worse than one month ago in the general election, because the party now gained only one-third of those votes, while the turnout was half of the previous one. The extremist party's second place was due to the fragmentation of the left-wing opposition.^[20]

After the obvious failure, chairmanAttila Mesterházy and the entire presidium of the Socialist Party tendered their resignation.^[21] Nevertheless, Mesterházy said he wishes to keep his position of parliamentary group leader.^[22] However, three days later, Mesterházy resigned from both of his positions after criticism intensified against him.^[23] The Socialist Party lost its leading opposition stature inBudapest, dropping to fourth place there after the Democratic Coalition and the alliance of Together 2014–Dialogue for Hungary. That rearrangement of the balance of power may affect the distribution of the candidates among the three parties for the2014 local elections (primarily a possible joint candidate againstMayor of BudapestIstván Tarlós).^[24]Gábor Török, a popular political scientist in Hungary, called the election the "Mohács disaster of the Socialist Party".^[25]

The two newer organisations, led by two former prime ministers,Ferenc Gyurcsány andGordon Bajnai, could assess their strength for the first time during a single candidacy. According toIndex.hu, successful results helped the political survival of Gyurcsány and Bajnai. The latter's party proved popular among the liberal voters in Budapest, while the DK weakened the Socialists' stronghold in countryside. However, the news portals' analysis pointed out that Gyurcsány's party has no more reserves, the relative good result was due to the dedicated "believers" and maximum mobilisation coupled with low turnout. According to the analysis, Politics Can Be Different (LMP) remained a party with 5%, narrowly meeting the electoral threshold.^[26]

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