Hungary is a

European Parliament constituency Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are elected by the population of the member states of the European Union (EU). The European Electoral Act 2002 allows member states the choice to allocate electoral subdivisions or constituencies (, ...

for

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covering the

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Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...

. It is currently represented by twenty-one Members of the European Parliament.

Current Members of the European Parliament

Electoral system

Hungary uses closed-list type of

party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a subset of proportional representation electoral systems in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through their position on an electoral list. They can also be u ...

to elect MEPs with the

D'Hondt method The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is a method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in party-list proportional representation systems. It belongs to the class of highes ...

of allocating seats to parties.

Elections

2004

The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament. As Hungary had only joined the

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earlier that month, it was the first election European election held in that state. The election took place on 13 June 2004.

2009

The 2009 European election was the seventh election to the European Parliament and the second for Hungary. The number of seats was reduced to twenty–two.

2014

The 2014 European election was the eighth election to the European Parliament and the third for Hungary. The number of seats was reduced to twenty–one.

2019

The

2019 European election The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million peopl ...

was the ninth election to the European Parliament and the fourth for Hungary.

References

External links

European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)

List of MEPs
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