Hungary’s parliament, known as the National Assembly, has 199 seats, all of which were up for grabs in the election on Sunday.
The seats get allocated in two different ways:
106 get elected in single-member constituencies where each electoral district elects one candidate. Whoever gets the most votes wins the seat — even if the proportion of the vote they secure is less than 50%.
But — and this is where it gets a bit more complicated — the remaining 93 seats are allocated by voting for national party lists. Broadly, these seats are allocated based on the proportion of the total votes cast for each party — if a party gets…