The Hungarian Regional Autonomy (; ) is a proposed territorial autonomy for ethnic Hungarians in Serbia, located in the northern part of Vojvodina province.
The creation of territorial autonomy for ethnic Hungarians in Serbia was proposed by the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians political party and is largely based on the autonomy model of South Tyrol in Italy. The Hungarian Regional Autonomy would be a territorial unit with the area of 3,813 kmò and population of 253,977 inhabitants. It would include nine municipalities in northern part of Vojvodina: Subotica, BaÃÂka Topola, Mali IÃÂoà ¡, Kanjià ¾a, Senta, Ada, BeÃÂej, ÃÂoka, and Novi Kneà ¾evac. The administrative centre of the region would be Subotica, while the territorial unit itself would be part of Vojvodina province.
Some proposals advocate excluding the municipality of Novi Kneà ¾evac, which has a Serb ethnic majority. Contrary to this, the proposal of the 64 Counties Movement advocates creation of Hungarian territorial autonomy on a much larger territory, which would include not only municipalities with Hungarian majority or plurality, but also sizable neighboring municipalities with ethnic Serb majority.
According to data from the 2022 census, the proposed territorial unit would include 61% of all Hungarians living in Serbia. Ethnic structure would be as follows: 44.4% Hungarians, 29% Serbs, 4.3% Croats, 3.6% Bunjevci, 3.2% Roma, and others.
The municipalities with ethnic Hungarian majority are: Kanjià ¾a (83.1%), Senta (75.7%), Ada (72.7%), BaÃÂka Topola (55.6%), and Mali IÃÂoà ¡ (51.8%). Hungarians make plurality of the population in ÃÂoka (44.8%).
The municipality of Novi Kneà ¾evac has ethnic Serb majority (58%); Serbs make plurality of the population in BeÃÂej (42.3%) and Subotica (34.3%).
The Hungarian Regional Autonomy is a part of the political program of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, major Hungarian ethnic minority political party, and is also supported by other Hungarian ethnic minority political party, the Hungarian Civic Alliance.
In the 2024 local elections, the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians won the largest number of seats in the municipal assemblies of Kanjià ¾a, Senta, BaÃÂka Topola, and Mali IÃÂoà ¡. Serbian Progressive Party won the most votes in ÃÂoka, which has ethnic Hungarian relative majority.