One of the aims of the new electoral law of Hungary has been to define a fairer apportionment into voting districts. This is ensured by a set of rules slightly more premissive than those laid out in the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters of the Venice Commission. These rules fix the...

The Hungarian mixed-member electoral system adopted in 1989 is one of the most complicated electoral systems. We show by example that the Hungarian election system suffers from the so-called population paradox. Particularly, the governing coalition may lose as many as 8 seats by either getting...