One of the most frequently repeated claims in Hungarian political discourse is that elections are decided in the countryside. This notion is based on the experience of recent parliamentary elections, in which Fidesz achieved particularly strong results in smaller settlements, especially villages, while Budapest and a significant share of larger cities increasingly shifted toward the opposition. As a result, Hungary’s electoral map has often been portrayed through a simplified rural-versus-urban divide, where rural Hungary served as the bastion of incumbent government support, while large urban areas became the primary terrain of opposition politics.
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