Hungary

Population Statistics

9,897,541

Total Population

1,484,631

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

20 July 2007

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Act XXXVI of 2013 on Electoral Procedure (2013)

Updated: June 2015

Chapter I, section 2, subsection 1 states:

The following principles shall prevail in the application of the rules of electoral procedure:…

  • (d) support for voters with a disability in exercising their right to vote…

 

Chapter VI, section 102, part 2 states:

Citizens who turn eighteen years of age on the day of voting at the latest shall be listed in the polling district electoral register from the day after the day the elections are called…

 

Excerpts from Act XXXVI of 2013 on Electoral Procedure (2013)

Fundamental Law of Hungary (2011, last amended 2013)

Updated: June 2015

Article XXIII, section 1 states:

Every adult Hungarian citizen shall have the right to vote and to be voted for in elections of Members of the National Assembly, local government representatives and mayors, and of Members of the European Parliament.

 

Excerpt from the Fundamental Law of Hungary (2011, last amended 2013)