Magyar elnökválasztási hagyományok és hozományok a Kárpát-medence külhoni régióiban

Hungarian Presidential Electoral Traditions and Results in the Minority Regions of the Carpathian Basin The paper examines the results of the presidential elections in countries with significant Hungarian minorities neighbouring Hungary. It examines the performance of minority presidential candidates in Romania, Serbia and Slovakia, and seeks to answer the question of the significance of a minority candidate´s candidacy for president if he or she has no chance of winning the office. The answer is to be found not in the electoral results achieved, but in the indirect results: the emergence of the minority candidate as a political factor, which can also show the political visibility and potential of the minority he or she represents.