Gendered parties and gendered voters in Hungary? “Plus ça change, plus c’est pariel”

Abstract

ABSTRACT The article compares parties’ candidate selection strategies and voters’ electoral response to female candidates in Hungary. The analysis covers five elections (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018) that is a period which offers broad variation in partisan, institutional, and even in systemic terms amongst the static and low level of descriptive female representation. Although parties continue to deprivilege female candidates they do it in varying manners and degrees. The article will broaden the demand aspect of the demand and supply model placing parties’ candidate selection in a complex institutional context. The article also demonstrates stability in voters’ electoral gender response, namely non-discriminatory behaviour.