Parliamentary elections were held in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
between 28 May and 2 June 1922.
Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...
& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p899 The result was a victory for the
Unity Party (a renamed National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party),
[Nohlen & Stöver, p876] which won 140 of the 245 seats in Parliament, the vast majority in "open" constituencies where there was no secret ballot.
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Electoral system
Prior to the election the United Party-led government changed the electoral system in order to ensure it retained its leading position.[ This involved reintroducing open elections and restricting the electoral census. The reforms were passed by a decree by Prime Minister ]István Bethlen
Count István Bethlen de Bethlen (8 October 1874, Gernyeszeg – 5 October 1946, Moscow) was a Hungarian aristocrat and statesman and served as prime minister from 1921 to 1931.
Early life
The scion of an old Bethlen de Bethlen noble fam ...
as Parliament had already been dissolved.
For the election the country was divided into 219 constituencies. Of these, 215 were single member constituencies and four multi-member constituencies. Within the 215 single member constituencies, only 20 were elected by secret ballot, the remainder (which were rural constituencies)[Nohlen & Stöver, pp916-917] All four multi-member constituencies used secret ballots.[
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Results
By constituency type
Notes
References
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Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
Elections in Hungary
Parliamentary
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