Az első népképviselők és a népképviselet kezdetei Magyarországon
The first parliamentary representatives and the beginnings of representation in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The paper seeks to answer the question: to what extent can the election year of 1865 can be regarded as a turning point in the history of Hungarian parliamentarism? How did the national representative assemblies of 1848–1849 and 1861 relate to the parliaments of the dual monarchy? So the main subject of the paper is continuity, which it attempts to examine from several viewpoints. The first part focuses on the effects of the 1848 suffrage reforms. Mainly because both Hungarian and foreign literature on parliamentarism interpret these as a turning point, and there is a notably great interest in the impact the reforms had on the composition of the political elite. The relevant literature usually considers the suffrage reforms a starting point for its examination when it looks at the continuity and discontinuity between these periods. The second major element of the work comprise an analysis of the representatives of the parliaments of 1848–1849 and 1861. In this part, the author primarily wants to highlight the percentage of those persons elected in the given cycles who had also participated in the feudal diets or in the first assembly of representatives. Accordingly, it describes the involvement of representatives, who had participated in both parliaments, in the parliament of the dual monarchy. The third part of the work will examine continuity from the viewpoint of sources dating from the period of the parliamentary session of 1861. Using complaints related to the parliamentary election, it tries to analyze how contemporaries looked at the 1848 antecedents.

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