As of 5 p.m., it reached 74.23%, corresponding to 5,587,935 votes cast. The previous figure, recorded at 15.00, was 54.14%, which was also a record.
The publication recalls previous records. Thus, in 2022, the turnout for elections at 17.00 was 62.9%. The record turnout in elections in absolute terms was 73.5% in 2002.
Context
On the eve of the elections, the party of the current Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Fidesz, was losing in the polls to the opposition Tisza party of opposition candidate Peter Madyar. The leading Hungarian agency Medián, which accurately predicted the victory of Fidesz on the eve of the 2022 elections, now gives it 33%, and Tisse – 58%, wrote euronews. Based on five recent telephone polls, Medián has forecast the division of parliamentary seats, with Madyar's party winning between 138 and 143 of the 199 seats, which would provide a two-thirds constitutional majority. Orbán's party will have between 49 and 55 seats.
Both Fidesz and Tisa have already declared falsifications and bribery of voters.
