How is the national electoral register created?

Hungary, Act XXXVI of 2013 on election procedure [as in force on 20 November 2021], accessed 12 April 2022

Section 82 (1) The central electoral register shall be an electronic register managed by the National Election Office. Only voters included in the central electoral register shall be eligible to exercise suffrage.

(2) The central electoral register shall contain the following:

a) data of voters with address in Hungary who are eligible voters at an election covered by this Act,

b) data of citizens with address in Hungary who do not have the right of suffrage due to not being an adult, but have already attained the age of seventeen years,

c) data of voters with no address in Hungary who are eligible voters at an election covered by this Act and have been included, upon request, in the central electoral register,

d) data of citizens with no address in Hungary who do not have the right of suffrage due to not being an adult, but have already attained the age of seventeen years and have been included, upon request, in the central electoral register (for the purposes of this Chapter, the points a) to d) hereinafter jointly “voters”).

Section 83 (1) The central electoral register shall contain the data of voters set out in Annex 2.

(2) The data of the central electoral register set out in Annex 2 shall be generated, with the exceptions referred to in paragraph (3), by taking over data from the register of personal data and address of citizens, for a voter not recorded in the register of personal data and address of citizens from the central register of travel documents and the register of driving licences, furthermore from the register of adult citizens without suffrage, from the polling district and constituency register and from the polling district electoral register.

(3) In the central electoral register, the data set out in Annex 2 under points ib), j), k), l) and, for a voter not recorded in the register of personal data and address of citizens, points c) and m) shall be recorded by the election office on the basis of a request by the voter.

National Election Office maintains the voter register based on data extracted from the population and other civil registers.