The 2019 Budapest Assembly election was held on 13 October 2019, concurring with other

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in Hungary. Voters elected the

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, and the mayors of the 23 districts directly, while 9 seats in the assembly were distributed proportionally, taking into account votes cast for losing district mayoral candidates.

Mayor

Gergely Karácsony Gergely Szilveszter Karácsony (; born 11 June 1975) is a Hungarian politician, sociologist, political scientist, activist and current Mayor of Budapest. He previously served as member of the National Assembly (MP) from 2010 to 2014 and Mayor ...

was elected mayor with 50.86% of the vote, defeating incumbent

István Tarlós István Tarlós (; 26 May 1948) is a Hungarian politician who served as the mayor of Budapest from 2010 to 2019. He also served as the mayor of the 3rd district of the city (Óbuda-Békásmegyer) between 1990 and 2006 as an independent candidate ...

who held the office since 2010.

District mayors

The opposition won the majority of district mayoral races. * ''Italics denote a mayor not running for reelection'' In case of joint candidates, bold denotes the party to which the candidate personally belongs. In the 23 districts, 14 opposition or opposition supported candidates won, with 9 government-aligned or government-supported mayors. This is a sharp improvement for the opposition as they previously only occupied 4 of these mayorships. In most of the cities, the assembly majority is composed of members aligned with the mayor, except: * X., with a Fidesz-KDNP mayor, and no clear majority * XX., with an

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( Fidesz-KDNP supported) mayor, and opposition majority * XXI., with a Fidesz-KDNP mayor, and no clear majority * XXII., with a Fidesz-KDNP mayor, and opposition majority In XXIII., the mayor's civil organization together with Fidesz-KDNP members have a majority.

Party list seats

Candidates elected on the

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list: #

(1.) – did not take his seat # Gábor Bagdy (2.) # Zsolt Láng (4.) # Zsófia Hassay (5.) #

Zsolt Wintermantel Zsolt Wintermantel (born 26 February 1972) is a Hungarian politician, who served as Mayor of Újpest (4th district of Budapest) from 2010 to 2019. Besides that he represented Újpest (Budapest Constituency VI) in the National Assembly of Hungary ...

(8.) – did not take his seat #

Gábor Tamás Nagy Dr. Gábor Tamás Nagy (born 8 October 1960) is a Hungarian jurist and politician, who served as Mayor of Budavár (1st district of Budapest) from 1998 to 2019. Besides that he represented Budavár (Budapest Constituency I) in the National Asse ...

(14.) Candidates elected on the

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– DK–

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–

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– LMP list: # Kata Tüttő (2.,

) # Erzsébet Gy. Németh (3., DK) # Gábor Havasi (4.,

) Number in parentheses is the candidate's original position on the list, as some list candidates were elected to a mayorship. Tarlós announced on 15 October 2019, that he won't take his seat. This caused Attila Ughy (list position 15) to take his seat instead. Zsolt Wintermantel did not take either his seat on 28 October; he was replaced by Gábor Pintér, according to the request of the Fidesz–KDNP alliance. Botond Sára (9.) and Tamás Hoffmann (11.) were elected into the local representative bodies in their districts, therefore they were excluded from the party compensation list.334/2019. (X. 25.) FVB határozat
2019-10-25 (in Hungarian)

Breakdown of seats

The opposition won a majority in the Assembly, breaking over 15 years of a

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majority.

Detailed results

''Italics'' means incumbent, bold means winner of the election.

Notes

References

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