1939 Hungarian parliamentary election

1939 Hungarian parliamentary election
	All 260 seats in the Diet; 131 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	89.72%
Pál Teleki; MÉP	Pál Teleki; MÉP

Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 28 and 29 May 1939.^[1] The result was a victory for the Party of Hungarian Life, which won 181 of the 260 seats in Parliament (72 percent of the parliament's seats) and won 49 percent of the popular vote in the election. Pál Teleki remained Prime Minister.^[2]^[3] This was a major breakthrough for the far-right in Hungary;^[3] between them, far-right parties were officially credited with 49 seats and 25 percent of the vote.^[4]

This was the closest thing to a free election that Hungary had seen at that point. According to historian Stanley G. Payne, the far-right bloc would have almost certainly won more seats had the election been conducted in a truly fair manner, and possibly garnered an "approximately equal" seat count and vote share with the Party of Hungarian Life.^[5]

^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p899 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p940
^ ^a ^b Georgi Karasimeonov. Cleavages, parties, and voters: studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. Pp. 70.
^ Payne, Stanley G. (1996). A History of Fascism, 1914-1945. Routledge. p. 275. ISBN 0203501322.
^ Payne, p. 275

[NS-1] Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p899 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

[2] Nohlen & Stöver, p940

[Karasimeonov-3] Georgi Karasimeonov. Cleavages, parties, and voters: studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. Pp. 70.

[Payne-4] Payne, Stanley G. (1996). A History of Fascism, 1914-1945. Routledge. p. 275. ISBN 0203501322.

[Payne,_p._275-5] Payne, p. 275

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