Who would win the 2018 elections in Hungary if social media decided?

Clearly, the probable winner of the April parliamentary elections is Fidesz – based on polls. However, social media like Facebook and Twitter give fairly different results. For example, according to the number of Facebook-followers Jobbik stands in the first place. The individual contest is lead by PM Orbán, but Jobbik’s PM candidate Gábor Vona is not far behind him. In fact, Twitter or Instagram falls much behind the importance of Facebook in Hungary.

Jobbik is the unquestionable leader on Facebook

In case of the biggest social media platform, all Hungarian PM candidates and political parties have a profile. In fact, the

most “popular” Hungarian politician is PM Viktor Orbán

with more than 565 thousand Facebook-followers. Second place goes to Gábor Vona, 493 thousand people follow his page. Interestingly, other politicians are far behind them. For example, former PM Ferenc Gyurcsány has 192 thousand followers, socialist PM candidate Gergely Karácsony has 135 thousand while LMP’s PM candidate Bernadett Szél has only 67 thousand followers.

The results are very different if we take a look at the popularity of the parties. In this case,

Jobbik stands in the first place with more than 471 thousand followers.

Second place goes to protest party Kétfarkú Kutya Párt (Two-tailed Dog Party) with more than 260 thousand followers. Interestingly, the governing party Fidesz is only third with 228 thousand followers. Socialists have 200 thousand, Gyurcsány’s Democratic Coalition has 94 thousand while LMP has only 78 thousand followers.