If Tisza’s two-thirds majority is confirmed, state TV is set for change.
Magyar moved slowly through the crowds before taking to the stage, flanked by his party colleagues.
“You performed a miracle today, Hungary made history today,” he told the audience, to chants of “Ria-Ria-Hungaria!”
He likened their electoral victory to the Hungarian revolution of 1848, and the uprising against Soviet occupation in 1956.
There was a time when Orbán himself spoke out against Soviet occupation, but he has become a close partner of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and his justification of cheap Russian oil and petrol has made him a highly unpopular leader in the EU, which has tried to shake off its reliance on Russian imports. Orbán has also reneged on an EU agreement to provide Ukraine with a €90bn (£79bn; $105bn) loan.
“Russians go home,” Magyar supporters chanted, as the next Hungarian prime minister promised better relations with the European Union.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk was among the first of many European leaders to welcome Magyar’s “glorious victory”, adding in Hungarian “Ruszkik Haza” – Russians go home.
The Tisza leader pledged that his first trip abroad as prime minister would be to Warsaw – to reinforce Hungary’s 1,000-year friendship with Poland.
As for Orbán, now 62, he has not resigned, and without him it is difficult to imagine what will happen to Fidesz.
For now he will continue to lead Hungary in a caretaker role, while he and his party lick their wounds.