Peter Magyar's Tisza Party defeats Viktor Orban in Hungary

Hungarians voted to elect all 199 members of the National Assembly. Prime minister Viktor Orban, who was seeking a fifth consecutive term, conceded defeat. He telephoned Tisza Party leader Peter Magyar to congratulate him. The pro-European Tisza Party won two-thirds of the seats.

The National Assembly is Hungary's unicameral parliament. All 199 seats were at stake. A two-thirds majority is large enough, under Hungarian rules, to pass many constitutional changes as well as ordinary laws. Orban has been the country's dominant political figure through the previous terms the report says he was trying to extend.

A concession is a public acceptance that the opponent has won. Calling the winner is the personal form of that acceptance. The report says Orban conceded and congratulated Magyar. It identifies Tisza as pro-European, meaning the party favors close ties with European institutions, in contrast with the government that lost.

Turnout was 77.8 percent. The report says that is the highest turnout since the fall of communism. The fall of communism is the end of one-party socialist rule in Hungary around the start of the 1990s. A turnout figure is the share of eligible voters who cast a ballot. The report gives the percentage and the historical comparison, not the raw number of ballots.

A change of government after a supermajority for the opposition reorders who controls the assembly. Magyar's party, not Orban's, holds two-thirds of the seats. The report does not list coalition partners, because the two-thirds result is attributed to Tisza itself. Cabinet appointments were not part of the election-night account.

Viktor Orban's bid for a fifth consecutive term ended in defeat. Peter Magyar's Tisza Party won two-thirds of the 199 seats. Turnout of 77.8 percent was the highest since the fall of communism. The vote was held on April 12.