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Hungary's Parallel Voting is partly PR

  • Tom Monto
  • Jun 3, 2022
  • 2 min read

Hungary elects its national assembly through Parallel Voting - FPTP/Scorpora.

Some members are elected through FPTP; others are elected through scorpora (a semi-proportional "negative vote transfer" method).


Italy and South Korea also use versions of Parallel Voting with FPFP and Scorpora.


from Wiki "2022 Hungarian parliamentary election":

"The 199 members of the National Assembly are to be elected by two methods; 106 are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting, with the remaining 93 elected from a single nationwide constituency mostly by party-list PR, thus a partially compensatory MMP system based on the same vote that voters cast in the district vote. The electoral threshold is set at 5%, although this is raised to 10% for coalitions of two parties and 15% for coalitions of three or more parties. Seats are to be allocated using the d'Hondt method.[21]" from Wiki: "Mixed single vote" Hungary: Local elections in municipalities and districts in the capital with a population over 10 000 use a mixed single vote with positive vote transfer, where only votes for losing candidates are transferred to the compensatory tier.[4] The vote transfer takes place based on the party affiliation of the local candidates and seats are allocated proportionally based on the transferred votes.[5]

  • Up to 25 000 residents 8 members are elected in SMDs and 3 members on the compensatory tier

  • Up to 50 000 residents 10 members are elected in SMDs and 4 members on the compensatory tier

  • Up to 75 000 residents 12 members are elected in SMDs and 5 members on the compensatory tier

  • Up to 100 000 residents 14 members are elected in SMDs and 6 members on the compensatory tier

  • Over 100 000 residents, the number of SMDs increases by 1 after every additional 10 000 residents, while the number of compensatory seats increases by 1 after every additional 25 000 residents.

  • ...

  • National Assembly elections use a different positive vote transfer system, (scorporo system ) which partially compensates less popular parties for lack of success in district elections. However, that system is not a pure mixed single vote system as it also has a parallel voting component.

The actual electoral districts are unknown...


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