Turnout at 1pm 40.01 percent

By 1pm on Sunday, 40.01 percent of Hungary's voters, 3,078,029 people had cast their ballots in the general election, the National Election Office (NVI) said.

Orbán: Hungary to drift into war if opposition wins

Should the opposition win at Sunday's general election, Hungary would drift into the war in Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to commercial television channel TV2 on Saturday. Orbán said it was in Ukraine's interest to draw as many countries as ...

Marki-Zay: ‘We are at the gates of victory’

After four years of work, the opposition is "at the gates of victory," Peter Marki-Zay, the prime ministerial candidate of the united opposition, said at the alliance's campaign closing event on Saturday.

Orbán: Left’s victory would green-light weapons deliveries

If the left wing wins Sunday's general election, it will give the green light to weapons deliveries to Ukraine the next day, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on the campaign trail on Friday. Orbán said the opposition also backed proposals to cut off Russian ...

Orbán: ‘More at stake than in past 30 years’

Not in the past thirty years has an election had so much at stake, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to public radio ahead of Sunday's ballot. "The issue of war or peace is pivotal to the country's future," the prime minister ...

Orbán: Choice between peace and war at stake

What is at stake in this Sunday's general election is no longer whether Hungary should go forward or backwards, but the choice between peace and war, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to news portal Origo on Thursday. The Hungarian left "poses ...

Opposition demands destruction of mailed votes

Hungarian opposition parties are demanding the immediate destruction of vote-by-mail slips after many of them were found dumped and partially burned in an illegal landfill near Sfantu Gheorghe (Marosvasarhely) in Romania.

Fidesz-KDNP on 49 percent, opposition 44 percent

Support for the ruling Fidesz party and its Christian Democrat ally stood at 49 percent among decided voters expressing an intention to vote in Sunday's general election, while support for the united opposition is 44 percent, according to the Szazadveg Institute.