Hungary parliamentary election April 8 2018

[Double Carpet]

Does anyone have a link for Hungarian TV online that isn't geoblocked?

Also any result websites with maps?

thanks!

DC

[Double Carpet]

Ok found the TV:

https://www.mediaklikk.hu/m1-elo/

[Double Carpet]

http://www.valasztas.hu/dyn/pv18/szavossz/hu/start.html

looks like the official results site, but no foreign language options unlike 2014

[YPestis25]

Apparently, Median, which I know nothing about did an election day poll.

Fidesz-KDNP-EPP: 43%
Jobbik-NI: 22%
MSZP-P-S&D-G/EFA: 13%
LMP-G/EFA: 8%
DK-S&D: 7%
Momentum-*: 3%
MKKP-*: 1%
Együtt-*: 1%

They also released a seat projection:

Fidesz-KDNP-EPP: 124
Jobbik-NI: 33
MSZP-P-S&D-G/EFA: 20
LMP-G/EFA: 9
DK-S&D: 9
Independent: 3

[DavidB.]

Turnout was 68.1% at 18:30.

[YPestis25]

A little more info from the poll:

Recently

Jobbik-NI: 28%
Fidesz-EPP: 24%
LMP-G/EFA: 14%
MSZP/P-S&D/G/EFA: 8%
Momentum-ALDE: 7%

Long time ago

Fidesz-EPP: 50%
Jobbik-NI: 19%
MSZP/P-S&D/G/EFA: 7%
LMP-G/EFA: 6%
Momentum-ALDE: 1%

[DavidB.]

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983031229913206784
Bad result for Fidesz if accurate.

[seb_pard]

http://valasztas2018.nepszava.hu

It's in hungarian, but I think is pretty intuitive

[DavidB.]

Polls aren't closing anytime soon, it seems.

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983033562520748032

[IceAgeComing]

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983036104348766209?s=19

This strikes me as being fairly significant - and if verified it confirms what some of us have long suspected about Fidesz and may well cause Hungary issues in the future.

[TheSaint250]

Another prediction:

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983033299177230336


Bad result for Fidesz (though in the normal sense this would still be fine)

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983036104348766209?s=19

This strikes me as being fairly significant - and if verified it confirms what some of us have long suspected about Fidesz and may well cause Hungary issues in the future.

I just saw that. That's pretty damning. I wonder how many other areas saw the same (many, I assume) actions and how the opposition parties will use this.

[Tender Branson]

"people still queuing for hours ..."

... in only a 70% turnout election.

LOL.

Unimaginable for Austrians or Dutch people. I have never waited more than 1 or 2 minutes for voting (before I switched to postal voting).

[rob in cal]

   I read somewhere that the long lines in Budapest are for the absentee voter precincts, not regular precincts. Apparently there are only a few precincts were people can vote absentee and a huge amount of people have to vote there. I think I saw this on a reddit discussion forum, FWIW.

[TheSaint250]

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983047303496945664

[Former President tack50]

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983047303496945664

If this is true, they should be kicked out of the EU without a doubt. The EU has no place for dictatorships and that includes pseudo-democracies with rigged elections

[DavidB.]

If this is true, they should be kicked out of the EU without a doubt. The EU has no place for dictatorships and that includes pseudo-democracies with rigged elections

You are aware that this is not possible from a legal perspective?

[Tender Branson]

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983047303496945664

I read that the election reporting website was offline for most of the day and that information about voting precincts and where to vote was not available because of it.

Maybe this is what the "incidents" are referring to.

But the government said the website simply collapsed because of strong traffic at the same time.

[Former President tack50]

If this is true, they should be kicked out of the EU without a doubt. The EU has no place for dictatorships and that includes pseudo-democracies with rigged elections

You are aware that this is not possible from a legal perspective?

Fair enough, though article 7 of the EU (the one that leaves Hungary without a vote) should do the job just fine, and act as sort of a suspension. Though I guess someone will probably block that (Poland?)

Alternatively fines should work as well even if they would be an underwhelming sanction.

[YPestis25]

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983047303496945664

I read that the election reporting website was offline for most of the day and that information about voting precincts and where to vote was not available because of it.

Maybe this is what the "incidents" are referring to.

But the government said the website simply collapsed because of strong traffic at the same time.

Looks like it may be far worse, though I want more confirmation before extrapolating too much from this.

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/983036104348766209

[DavidB.]

I agree that irregularities should be taken seriously, but let's first wait for the details. If it's something serious, then yes, there should be repercussions.

[Former President tack50]

Leaked exit poll

[Antonio the Sixth]

This is terrifying.

[Tender Branson]

I think I call it quits (this will take a few more hours).

Here, everything would be 100% counted already and people could go to bed.

With 10% more turnout.

[TheSaint250]

This is terrifying.

Seeing as you wrote this after the Jeb! post, I agree that Jeb!'s continual election victories is quite concerning

But seriously, yeah, this is pretty bad.

Up until today, I thought corruption and further control of the media was as bad as it was going to get (not trying to diminish the significance of those, for those are still quite precarious), but I didn't expect this.

[IceAgeComing]

I think I call it quits (this will take a few more hours).

Here, everything would be 100% counted already and people could go to bed.

With 10% more turnout.

didn't your country have to re-run an election recently because of incompetence?