1920 Hungarian parliamentary election

{{Infobox legislative election

| country = Hungarian Republic (1919–20)

| previous_election = 1910

| next_election = 1922

| seats_for_election = All 164 seats in the Diet

| majority_seats = 83

| election_date = January 1920–October 1921

| first_election = yes

| nopercentage = yes

| party1 = OKGFP | leader1 = István Szabó de Nagyatád | seats1 = 112

| party2 = Christian National Union Party | leader2 = István Friedrich | seats2 = 82

| party3 = NDP | leader3 = Gábor Ugron | seats3 = 6

| party4 = KP | leader4 = István Haller | seats4 = 3

| party5 = Christian National Party (Hungary) | leader5 = István Friedrich | seats5 = 2

| party6 = KSZGP | leader6 = Sándor Giesswein | seats6 = 1

| party7 = MMOP | leader7 = | seats7 = 1

| party8 = Independents | leader8 = – | seats8 = 12

| title = Prime Minister

| posttitle = Prime Minister after election

| before_election = Károly Huszár

| before_party = KNEP

| after_election = Sándor Simonyi-Semadam

| after_party = KNEP

}}{{Politics of Hungary}}

Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 25 and 26 January 1920.Dieter Nohlen & Phillip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p899 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}} However, they were only held in 164 districts.Hubai László (2001) Magyarország XX. századi választási atlasza I., p21 {{ISBN|963-9082-74-0}} After the Treaty of Trianon was signed, the 44 districts previously occupied by Romania voted between 13 June and 5 July, whilst the 11 districts occupied by Serbia did not vote until 30 and 31 October 1921.Nohlen & Stöver, p900 The election was held with compulsory voting. In protest at this and other changes to the franchise that left 60% of the voting age population unable to vote, the Hungarian Social Democratic Party boycotted the elections,Nohlen & Stöver, p875 and called for its supporters to cast invalid votes, resulting in an unusually high number of blank or invalid votes – 12% in the January elections and over 20% in Budapest and other major cities.

The National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party and the Christian National Union Party won 194 of the 219 seats and formed a coalition government on 15 March.Nohlen & Stöver, p876 However, it lasted only until 4 June when the Treaty of Trianon was signed.

Results

{{Election results

|image=

|firstround=January 1920{{efn|The number of votes for January 1920 elections is taken only from 83 of the 164 seats. In 37 of the remaining 81 seats there was only one candidate who was elected unopposed.Nohlen & Stöver, p915}}

|secondround=June–July 1920{{efn|The number of votes is taken from only 13 of the 44 seats. In three of the remaining 31 seats there was only one candidate who was elected unopposed.}}

|thirdround=October 1921{{efn|The number of votes is taken from only seven of the eleven seats. In one of the remaining four seats a candidate was elected unopposed.}}

|party1=National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party{{efn|The majority of candidates representing what would become the National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party contested the election as Christian Smallholders or Christian National Smallholders, as the united party was not formed until January 1922.Nohlen & Stöver, p916}}|votes1=491114|seats1=78|votes1_2=113696|seats1_2=29|votes1_3=32358|seats1_3=5|totseats1=112|sc1=

|invalid=155580|invalid2=4881|invalid3=1716

|electorate=1487542|electorate2=182223|electorate3=82117

|source=Nohlen & Stöver

}}

Notes

References

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