According to the National Election Office (NVI) data on Monday morning, voter turnout at foreign missions was 87 per cent for the election of Hungarian members of the European Parliament (EP); out of the 21,458 registered voters, 18,661 cast their votes.
In the EP elections, Hungarian citizens with a Hungarian residence but who were abroad on election day and registered in the foreign missions’ electoral register could vote at these locations. This right also extended to those EU citizens who had requested registration to vote for the Hungarian list in the EP election.
This is not to be confused with postal votes, a method those Hungarian citizens who live in a non-EU country and those living in Hungary but having no Hungarian address can avail themselves of.
The highest number of voters was registered in London, 2,148, of whom 1,765 cast their votes, resulting in an 82.17 per cent turnout.
A significant number of voters were also registered in The Hague (1,464), with 1,246 voting, in Brussels (1,345), with 1,255 voting, and in Munich (1,068), with 927 casting their votes.
There were 28 foreign missions where all registered voters cast their ballots: Abuja (9 voters), Accra (10), Beirut (23), Banská Bystrica (4), Brasília (9), Canberra (20), Chisinau (20), Dhaka (3), Osijek (12), Islamabad (13), Yekaterinburg (4), Kampala (3), Kazan (5), Kigali (6), Kinshasa (2), Guangzhou (11), Lusaka (3), Minsk (16), Montevideo (2), Moscow (45), Mumbai (8), Phnom Penh (4), Quito (6), Riyadh (15), Santiago de Chile (10), São Paulo (15), St. Petersburg (18), and New Delhi (19).
The lowest participation rates, below 80 per cent, were recorded in Houston (40 out of 54 voters, 74.07 per cent), Wroclaw (20 out of 27 voters, 74.07 per cent), San Francisco (61 out of 77 voters, 79.22 per cent), Innsbruck (165 out of 209 voters, 78.95 per cent), Mexico City (14 out of 18 voters, 77.78 per cent), Nicosia (58 out of 75 voters, 77.33 per cent), Chicago (61 out of 79 voters, 77.22 per cent), Miami (37 out of 48 voters, 77.08 per cent), and Manila (10 out of 13 voters, 76.92 per cent).
Votes at foreign missions are not counted locally; instead, the ballot boxes will be transported to Hungary by Thursday midnight at the latest, where the National Election Office will count the votes.
The National Election Commission will determine the EP election results based on the 10,119 Hungarian electoral district protocols, the protocols establishing the foreign mission voting results, and the protocols from the counting of votes cast by mail, with the final results announced no later than 28 June.
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