My understanding of Hungarian politics is pretty much nonexistent, but I don’t think I’ll be sad to see Orban defeated. A pro-European Hungary is good for all of us.
Polls have closed and counting begun.
The BBC has a tracker here which I dip into every now and again…
Fingers crossed that he goes and that his replacement doesn’t want to sabotage the EU.
It is and it seems to be contagious. Hopefully Vance has swung it for the opposition, as soon as the US or other Right wing foreign visitors start arriving to support the Right wing incumbent it seems to inspire those against to get out and vote.
If you’re really keen then you can see the live results here.
Thank you. I hope we understand the results. 
The BBC reports that Orban has congratulated his challenger…
Orban has conceded.. great news!
Next thing is to get the super majority
Thats going to piss off Vlad the destroyer 
With the help of AI – “This victory gives the incoming government the same sweeping powers Orbán once held, and would rank among the most dramatic electoral turnarounds in modern European politics.”
Great stuff!
Fingers crossed
The BBC says victory is “a blow to Orbán’s close allies Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump”.
Bloody good job!
Having lived in Budapest for a time the sentiment in the capital will be of good riddance. The countryside we will see. Certainly he propogated a regime that Hungarians are well rid of.
Perhaps Ukraine will be able to have the promised EU money now.
What is it with rural dwellers? It’s the same world over. I suspect city dwellers tend to be younger and more cosmopolitan, while in rural areas with fairly homogeneous populations there’s more conservatism. Certainly in Russia older folk look back with rose tinted specs at the 1970’s, when there were queues for bread and no elections. Nowt as funny as folk.
Am I the only one to find amusing the fact that Orban was Putin’s best friend in Europe and at the same time was Trump’s best friend in Europe?
A bit like 2 bitterly opposed friends circling a roundabout and then suddenly finding to their surprise that they are at the same point. 
Perhaps not that surprising as Trump and Putin would seem to be ‘friends’.
aka Putin has a useful idiot.
Seems that Italy’s PM, Giorgia Meloni, a real Trump favourite, has condemned his attack on the Pope, and Trump is now attacking her, as you’d expect. Another ‘friend’ lost.
It’s all going on!
Surely it’s not just me who is a bit suspicious at how smooth a transfer of power in Hungary seems to have been.
No reports of election interference by Russia. Is this a sign of a change in their chessgame tactics?
I don’t think there’s any belief that Russia didn’t interfere, more that it utterly failed. Similarly, I suspect the weight of public opinion was so strong that Orban had little choice.
There remains a concern that Orban’s control of the media and influence on the courts will be deployed to make like difficult.