Imre Horváth (28 June 1944 – 27 April 2021) was a Hungarian politician. He was a member of the

National Assembly of Hungary The National Assembly ( hu, Országgyűlés, lit=Country Assembly) is the parliament of Hungary. The unicameral body consists of 199 (386 between 1990 and 2014) members elected to 4-year terms. Election of members is done using a semi-proport ...

in the

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11 constituency for the Hungarian Socialist Party from 2014 to 2018. He was elected in a

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, following the death of fellow party member

Péter Kiss Péter Kiss (11 June 1959 – 29 July 2014) was a Hungarian Socialist politician. In Bajnai's government, he was a minister without portfolio. He was one of the candidates to succeed Péter Medgyessy as prime minister in 2004 but lost to Fer ...

. On 22 November 2017, Imre Horváth announced, he quit the MSZP, because the party did not nominate him as candidate in the

2018 Hungarian parliamentary election The 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election took place on 8 April 2018. This parliamentary election was the eighth since the 1990 first multi-party election and the second since the adoption of a new Constitution of Hungary which came into force on ...

in Újpest. Later Imre Horváth announced to the Index, that he was not entering other political parties, he was running as an independent in 2018, in Újpest. He received 2.34 percent of the vote during the election, thus lost his parliamentary seat.

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{{Hungary-politician-stub 1944 births 2021 deaths Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018) Hungarian Socialist Party politicians People from Vas County