1947 Hungarian parliamentary election

1947 Hungarian parliamentary election

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All 411 seats in the National Assembly 206 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader % Seats +/– Communist Mátyás Rákosi 22.25 100 +30 Democratic People's István Barankovics 16.50 60 New FKGP Lajos Dinnyés 15.34 68 −177 MSZDP Árpád Szakasits 14.86 67 −2 Independence Zoltán Pfeiffer 13.43 49 New National Peasant Péter Veres 8.28 36 +13 FMDP István Balogh 5.25 18 New Radical Imre Csécsy 1.71 6 +6 Christian Women's Margit Slachta 1.39 4 New Civic Democratic Ernő Bródy 1.00 3 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after election Lajos Dinnyés FKGP Lajos Dinnyés FKGP

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Parliamentary elections, which later became known as the "blue-ballot" elections, were held in Hungary on 31 August 1947.^[1] The Hungarian Communist Party, which had lost the previous election, consolidated its power in the interim using salami tactics. Communist-led political intrigues had deprived their opposition of its democratically won mandate from 1945, as numerous prominent anti-Communists were removed from office on charges of conspiracy. These conspiracies reached a climax in late May 1947, when the Hungarian Communist Party deposed the democratically elected prime minister Ferenc Nagy in a coup d'état, removing one of the strongest opponents to their rule and crippling the opposition. This weakening of the opposition, combined with a revised electoral law, led to further Communist gains. This would be the last remotely competitive election held in Hungary until 1990.