Jobbik may also prove to be a winner having increased its share of the vote to 20.5% from 16.7% in 2010.

Jobbik could be the largest opposition party in the House, as the parties of the left-wing alliance are likely to form separate caucuses.

Fidesz won 45% of the votes, down from 53% in 2010, and won all but 10 of the 106 individual constituency votes. That gives the party 133 seats, one more than required for the two-thirds majority.

However, one of those seats remains in doubt, as the Fidesz candidate is leading by only 22 votes ahead of the left-wing candidate in Budapest’s 18th District, with 98.7% of all votes counted. The numbers do not include votes by Hungarians living abroad.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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