Hungarian General Election Results Sunday

Key facts

• Péter Magyar and the Tisza party won the Hungarian general election, ending the 16-year rule of Viktor Orbán.
• The Tisza party is on course to secure 138 seats out of the 199 seats in the Hungarian parliament.
• Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party won 55 seats, while the far-right Our Homeland party secured six seats.
• A record voter turnout of 79.5 per cent was recorded during the election.
• A constitutional majority in the Hungarian parliament requires a two-thirds majority of 133 seats.
• The system of patronage in Hungary is known as NER.
• Péter Magyar pledged that his first official trip abroad as Prime Minister would be to Warsaw, Poland.
• The European Union (EU) has frozen approximately €17 billion in funds for Hungary due to corruption and judicial independence concerns.
• The EU had previously agreed to provide a €90 billion loan to Ukraine, which Hungary had reneged on.
• The election victory was compared to the Hungarian revolution of 1848 and the 1956 uprising against Soviet occupation.
• The state-run media in Hungary includes the M1 TV channel.
• Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk was among the first European leaders to congratulate the new leadership.