Patriotic Electoral Coalition

The Patriotic Electoral Coalition (Hungarian: Hazafias Választási Koalíció; HVK) was a short-lived electoral coalition in Hungary, formed in December 1989 by the Patriotic People's Front (HNF) and twelve other minor left-wing parties and civil movements[1] to jointly contest the 1990 parliamentary election, the first completely free and competitive elections to be held in the country since 1945 after the fall of communism.

Patriotic Electoral Coalition Hazafias Választási Koalíció
Chairman	László Asztalos
Founded	21 December 1989
Dissolved	4 August 1990
Preceded by	Patriotic People's Front (HNF)
Succeeded by	Democratic Coalition Party (DKP)
Newspaper	Első Kézből
Ideology	Democratic socialism
Political position	Left-wing
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During the campaign, incumbent Minister of Justice Kálmán Kulcsár became head of the coalition's national list. Following the failure parliamentary election,[2] the national congress of the Patriotic Electoral Coalition declared its disestablishment on 4 August 1990. Following that some members of the HVK decided to found the Democratic Coalition Party (DKP).[3]

Election results

National Assembly

Election year	National Assembly				Government
	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–
1990	91,910	1.87%	0 / 386		extra-parliamentary

References

1. Vida 2011, p. 361.
2. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 899. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
3. Vida 2011, p. 362.

Sources

• Vida, István (2011). "Hazafias Választási Koalíció (HVK)". Magyarországi politikai pártok lexikona (1846–2010) [Encyclopedia of the Political Parties in Hungary (1846–2010)] (in Hungarian). Gondolat Kiadó. pp. 361–362. ISBN 978-963-693-276-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Mikola és Stumpf a Hazafias Népfront alelnökei lesznek