more results

While the results of the preliminary Hungarian elections show a comfortable victory for the ruling coalition.
Here's the official current results from the http://www.valasztas.hu/en/08/8_0.html

Updated: 2006.04.24. 12:13
Processed: 98,38 %
Round 2
of the Parliamentary Election of 2006
April 23, 2006

View of Parliament
(részeredmény)

Number of Parliamentary Representatives : 386

Parties
In individual
constituency
On territorial list
On national list
Total
Proportion of
Parliamentary
mandates

ALLIANCE OF FREE DEMOCRATS
3 (3)
4
11
18
4,66%

FIDESZ-Hungarian Civic Union
KDNP
69 (41)
69
26
164
42,49%

HUNGARIAN [...]

elections - after preliminary results 10.40pm

The Socialists and the governing coalitions won the Hungarian elections, even though the official results are still pending until 29 April. After the first round 110 seats were contested, in single-member constituencies and on the basis of votes redistributed on the national "reserve list". (Hungarians have two votes on the first round: for the regional [...]

election diary, 7.20pm

Today in second round of the Hungarian elections on the basis of all the opinion polls (Median, Tarki and Szonda) it looks like the so called left, the socialists and its junior goverment partner are winning the elections. The participation rate is a few percentage points lower than on the first round. However, considering that [...]

election roundtable talk and analysis

Here's my election roundtable talk and analysis, place: Collegium Budapest 20 April 2006.
It was a pretty successful event. Not too political, anyone with true political passions must have been in one of the political gatherings which were taking place simultaneously…
Introduction (extract)
…The aim of this talk is in no way to affect the results [...]

commentary in finnish

My analysis of Hungarian elections has been published today in the Finnish national daily Helsingin Sanomat. An earlier version of this piece has been published in my Finnish blog. http://epalonen.vuodatus.net/blog/109715

opinion polls after first round

According to the Capital research opinion poll (11-12 April, 800 respondents), the left will win the elections anyway. Had the second round been immediately after the 9 April first round, MSZP and SZDSZ joined candidates would have gained 55 percent, the Fidesz 44 and MDF 5 percent of the vote. There would be only two [...]

after the first round of the Hungarian elections

Now, you've seen the results of the Hungarian election in my earlier posts, but quite few points have emerged, and some of them I have been addressing in Finnish, but there's more.
So, it's emerged the Hungarians voted:
- for a four-party parliament
- against Viktor Orbán to return the post he held 1998-2002 as the PM
- against [...]

Politics and women in Hungary

So, let's go back to politics, from babies. Although after Henna's comment, I was reading feminist literature and thinking about the proposal to fill the world with babies. This is what the Fidesz would have done. Following Nancy Frazer's discussion, Fidesz is proposing a Caregiver model of welfare for women. Creating half-time "women's jobs" to [...]

first round election results

See the official first round election results in English.
Party                         district         district list   (national list)    total  percentage of mandates

FIDESZ
KDNP
28
69
 
97
25,13%

MDF
 
2
 
2
0,52%

MSZP
SZDSZ-A MAGYAR LIBERÁLIS PÁRT
4
 
 
4
1,04%

MSZP
34
71
 
105
27,20%

SZDSZ-A MAGYAR LIBERÁLIS PÁRT
 
4
 
4
1,04%

Összesen
66
146
 
212
54,92%

I'm off to the political gatherings, the one of Fidesz is next to [...]

first round election diary

Sunday 9 April.
Home, at the Collegium Guesthouse, the internet is not working. A great start for the election day… I hope it will be fixed by the evening. The election results start coming in around 7pm and the intention was to follow both the state channel on TV and the commercial online, to get the [...]