Hungary Election 2022: High turnout at foreign missions

Hungary Election 2022. Photo: MTI

Fully 88 percent of Hungarian citizens registered to vote in Sunday’s parliamentary election and referendum at Hungarian embassies and consular offices worldwide turned up at the polls, the National Election Office (NVI) said on Monday.

Fully 57,623 out of 65,480 Hungarians with permanent residency in Hungary cast their ballots, according to NVI’s figures.

The largest number, 6,951 people voted in London,

followed by 4,015 in Munich, and 3,079 in Stuttgart. The vote was cancelled in Shanghai, where 60 people had registered, due to coronavirus restrictions.

The votes cast at foreign representations will be sent to the NVI before Thursday midnight, then sorted and sent to the voters’ constituencies and added to the locally cast ballots.