By this time, the Front was dominated by the MDP (as the Communist Party had been renamed following a merger with the Social Democrats).

The Communist-dominated legislature chosen at this election enacted a new, Soviet-style Constitution, which formally marked the onset of out-and-out Communist rule in Hungary.

Under Imre Nagy (22–24 October 1954), the MFN was reorganised as the Patriotic People's Front (HNF).

Under the somewhat more moderate goulash Communism of János Kádár, the HNF still had near-complete control over the electoral system.

The Constitution charged the HNF with leading the nation in "complete building up of socialism, for the solution of political, economic, and cultural tasks.