Thailand General Election Results

The party allied to ousted and exiled ex leader thaksin shinawatra has won a major victory in thailand s general election provisional results show.

Thailand general election results. Thailand s prime minister prayuth chan ocha speaks during a news conference after a weekly cabinet meeting after the general election at government house in bangkok thailand march 26 2019. The election will be the second to take place under the 2017 constitution drafted under the national council for peace and order ncpo the military junta in power from 2014 to 2019. Early general elections were held in thailand on 17 november 1996.

Thai workers and an electoral official carrying a ballot box in march after voting ended in thailand s general election. Thailand s election commission on wednesday announced the final results of the march 24 general election the first since a military coup in 2014 that gave no party an absolute majority. Thailand s prime minister prayut chan o cha talks to the media after voting at a polling station in bangkok on march 24 2019 during thailand s general election.

According to final results the ppp won 233 seats the democrat party 165 seats and chart thai 37 seats. Thailand election results signal military s continued grip on power. Final election results released late on wednesday evening six weeks after the vote itself confirmed that the opposition pheu thai party won 136 seats in the 500 member lower house beating.

The result was a victory for the new aspiration party which won 125 of the 393 seats despite winning fewer votes than the democrat party voter turnout was 62 4. For the motherland got 26 seats ruam jai thai chat pattana 10 the neutral democratic party 7 and pracharat 4 seats. The preliminary final results gave the ppp 226 seats the democrat party 166 seats and chart thai 39 seats.

The 500 members of the house of representatives are elected using a form of mixed member proportional representation in which voters cast a single vote.