A total of 21 Council members voted in favour of the latest venue proposals, with just one vote against and nine abstentions.

Seven clusters and five standalone venues would be in the capital city itself.

This will include a new 60,000-capacity stadium being built from scratch for athletics, along with a velodrome and a tennis complex with a 10,000 seater main court.

The Ferenc Puskas Stadium, currently being rebuilt to host matches at the Euro 2020 Football Championships, would host football finals.

Most other venues would be temporary, with capacity at the athletics venue to be scaled back to 15,000 after the Games.

Sailing and open water swimming would also be held on Lake Balaton, 135 kilometres to south west of Budapest

It ends any speculation that sailing would be held outside Hungary, in the Croatian resort of Dubrovnik.

Golf would also take place near to Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe.

Rowing and equestrian would all take place outside Budapest, along with preliminaries of the basketball, handball and football competitions.

A feasibility study last year predicted development work to cost HUF Ft1.1 trillion ($3.7 billion/£5.3 billion/€4.9 billion).

A proposal for a referendum, meanwhile, had been made by the Socialist Party, the country's second largest grouping which controls 29 Parliamentary seats as well as two in the European Parliament.

They were supported by the minority "Politics Can Be Different" and "Dialogue for Hungary" parties.

All three claimed the Olympic bid is synonymous with the governing Fidesz party.

Socialist representative Csaba Horvath claimed that, while they support the idea of an Olympic bid in principle, they do not support the "corruption" they claim is associated with Budapest 2024.

It follows the decision of the Supreme Court, the Curia, to reject a move for a referendum after opposition calls for such a vote reportedly attracted 140,000 signatures.

For the time being, however, there appears no chance of a referendum goiing ahead, as shown by the strong support for the venue proposals.

Budapest is one of four cities competing for the Games along with Los Angeles, Paris and Rome.

Hamburg withdrew after a failed referendum in November.

A final decision is expected at the 2017 International Olympic Committee Session in Lima.