Map showing district mayoral election winners by party colors.
The 2019 Budapest Assembly election was held on 13 October 2019, concurring with other local elections in Hungary. Voters elected the Mayor of Budapest, and the mayors of the 23 districts directly, while 9 seats in the assembly were distributed proportionally, taking into account votes cast for losing district mayoral candidates.
In case of joint candidates, bold denotes the party to which the candidate personally belongs.
In the 23 districts, 14 opposition or opposition supported candidates won, with 9 government-aligned or government-supported mayors. This is a sharp improvement for the opposition as they previously only occupied 4 of these mayorships.
In most of the cities, the assembly majority is composed of members aligned with the mayor, except:[8]
Number in parentheses is the candidate's original position on the list, as some list candidates were elected to a mayorship.
Tarlós announced on 15 October 2019, that he won't take his seat.[9] This caused Attila Ughy (list position 15) to take his seat instead. Zsolt Wintermantel did not take either his seat on 28 October; he was replaced by Gábor Pintér, according to the request of the Fidesz–KDNP alliance.[10] Botond Sára (9.) and Tamás Hoffmann (11.) were elected into the local representative bodies in their districts, therefore they were excluded from the party compensation list.[11]
Breakdown of seats
The opposition won a majority in the Assembly, breaking over 15 years of a Fidesz majority.
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