Office of the Historian

864.00/11–945: Telegram

The Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State

Budapest, November 9, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received November 10—10:45 a.m.]

886. Final official count in national election gives Smallholder Party 246 mandates in new National Assembly; Social Democrats 70, Communists 70; National Peasant Party 23; Citizens Democratic 2.56 There were 4,701,026 votes cast of which Smallholder obtained popular majority of 2,680,527 or 57% of the total, Social Democrats 818,082 and Communists 795,659.

On basis of total popular vote there will be 411 elected members to new Assembly and 10 appointed for [from?] among prominent Hungarians. New Assembly to meet next week will consist of 421 members compared to 498 members Provisional National Assembly.

There has been no evidence that election was anything but free and untrammeled (reference my 871, November 557).

Schoenfeld
  1. Telegram 896, November 10, 1 p.m., from Budapest, reported that the Hungarian Minister of Interior had announced an adjustment of election figure which gave the Smallholders 245 mandates, the Communists and the Social Democrats 69 mandates each in the new assembly (864.00/11–1045).↩
  2. Not printed.↩