Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is poised to lose his re-election effort, with more than half the ballots counted, and has already conceded.

Partial results show opposition leader Peter Magyar's party dominating the vote in Hungary in a bombshell election result with repercussions around Europe and beyond.

Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions.

When Peter Magyar was a child, he taped a photo of Viktor Orban, then an anti-Communist firebrand, on his bedroom wall, thrilled by Hungary's first democratic elections in 1990.

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar’s Tisza party took a commanding early lead in elections that may end Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule.

Viktor Orbán faces a sweeping defeat in Hungary's elections, according to early results. Follow the developments.

WIth record turnout, Hungarians chose to end the 16-year rule of the prime minister who was a self-proclaimed champion of illiberal Christian democracy.

Hungary's centre-right ⁠Tisza party was ​projected to ‌win 135 mandates ‌in ⁠Hungary's ⁠199-seat parliament, ahead of Prime ​Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, ​in a poll ⁠carried out ⁠in ⁠the days before ​Sunday's election by ​pollster ⁠Median.