The ethnic minorities had the key role in the maintenance of the compromise in Hungary because they were able to vote the pro-compromise Liberal Party to election victories.
The voting districts that predominantly supported the government and the Liberal Party were chiefly situated in regions inhabited by ethnic minorities, whereas opposition strongholds were found in areas with a Hungarian majority.
This strategy enabled the election of a greater number of representatives from minority-dominated districts to parliament, which further shrunk the value of votes in ethnic Hungarian territories.
[4] The party passed legislation for Jewish emancipation and appointed Jews to parliament (both the upper and lower houses) in 1867.
Many districts of Budapest, where Jews made up half of the voters, reliably voted for the Liberal candidate.