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Thailand’s Official General Election Results to be Announced Soon
(CTN News) – The Election Commission will release a report on the results of the May 14th general election after carefully verifying the accuracy of the vote counts from the 400 constituencies across the country.
With the incomplete constituency vote count in Prachin Buri giving the Move Forward party an extra constituency seat, bringing the total number of constituency seats won by the party to 113, the latest poll results obtained by Thai PBS show that the party won 151 constituencies and party-list seats, one less than the unofficial poll results.
The final tally in Prachin Buri gave the Bhumjaithai party the extra seat held by Future Forward.
The official poll results for the top six parties are as follows:
Move Forward, 151 House seats
Pheu Thai, 141 house seats
Bhumjaithai 71 House seats
Palang Pracharath, 40 House seats
United Thai Nation, 36 House seats
Democrat, 25 House seats
There were 52,195,920 people on the voter rolls and 75.71 percent (or 39,514,973) cast ballots. Valid votes total 39,190,071 (94.1%) of the total cast. There were 1,457,899 (3.69%) invalid ballots and 866,885 ballots that did not specify a candidate.
As far as constituency seats are concerned, the poll results are as follows:
Move Forward, 112 seats
Pheu Thai, 112 seats
Bhumjaithai, 68 seats
Palang Pracharath, 39 seats
United Thai Nation, 23 seats
Democrat, 22 seats
Chartthaipattana, 9 seats
Prachachart, 7 seats
Thai Sang Thai, 5 seats
Pheu Thai Ruam Palang, 2 seats
Chart Pattana Kla, 1 seat
Regarding the 100 party-list seats, the poll results are as follows:
Move Forward, 39 seats and 14,438,851 votes
Pheu Thai, 29 seats and 10,962,522 votes
United Thai Nation, 13 seats and 4,766,408 votes
Bhumjaithai, 3 seats and 1,138,202 votes
Democrat, 3 seats and 925,349 votes
Prachachart, 2 seats and 602,645 votes
Palang Pracharath, 1 seat and 537,625 votes
Thai Liberal, 1 seat and 351,376 votes
Thai Sang Thai, 1 seat and 340,178 votes
New Democratic, 1 seat and 273,428 votes
Mai, 1 seat and 249,731 votes
Chart Pattana Kla, 1 seat and 212,676 votes
Thongthin Thai, 1 seat and 201,411 votes
Chart Thai Pattana, 1 seat and 192,497 votes
Fair, 1 seat and 184,817 votes
Plung Sungkom Mai, 1 seat and 177,379 votes
Thai Teachers for People, 1 seat and 175,182 votes
