The candidate of the governing parties, Ádám Horváth (Fidesz-KDNP), won the municipal representative seat in the 2nd individual electoral district of the 16th district of Budapest with 68.16 percent.
In the individual electoral district, an interim local government election was held due to the resignation of the representative, in which five candidates ran, and 5,472 eligible voters appeared in the register.
Ádám Horváth (Fidesz-KDNP) won the municipal representative seat with 944 votes (68.16 percent). Adrián Farkas, an independent candidate, received 205 votes (14.8 percent) according to the data of the election office. Edit Kertész, the DK candidate, came third with 176 votes (12.71 percent), Viktor Schaffer, an independent candidate, received 53 votes (3.83 percent), and Zsolt Márt Horváth, the Labor Party and ISZOMM candidate, received seven, which is 0. 51 percent, the National Electoral Office announced on its website.
According to Magyar Nemzet, an extraordinary event took place during the voting: Edit Kertész, the DK candidate - who was supported by both Jobbik and Momentum - placed her counter only about fifty meters from the school designated for voting, thus trying to convince the voters who went there, and even , also tore down the Fidesz election poster. In doing so, he violated the legislation on the election, according to which it is forbidden to conduct campaign activities within a 150-meter radius of the polling station on the day of voting. The local election commission banned Edit Kertész from this activity after establishing the violation.
Fidesz also won by a landslide in Kecskemét
István Jánosi defeated the candidate of the left, Julianna Kalló, with a convincing margin of almost 65 percent in the by-election.
The Fidesz-KDNP candidate will be the representative of Kecskemét's individual electoral district No. 9, after Tamás Gyula Szeberényi, who was elected as a member of parliament at the end of April, resigned from his mandate as a local government representative.
Jánosi won 64.59 percent of the votes.
Independent mayors were elected
István Tamás Gulyás, an independent candidate, was elected mayor of Nagytarcsa by the population of the settlement. Henke Smilja will now manage Sárok in Baranya County.
Imre Bencze won the interim mayor election in Segesden, Somogy county, while Ágota Gáthyné Szerna was able to win in Serényfalva, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county.
Zoltán Takács will be the mayor of Garabonco in Zala county, and Róbert Epres was elected mayor of Balatonrendes in Veszprém county.
Source: hirado.hu, valasztas.hu, magyarhirlap.hu
Cover photo: MTI/Zoltán Balogh
