Election officials held a press conference to announce the election results.Published: 29-Jan-12
PHNOM PENH (Cambodia Herald) - The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) won 78.1 percent of the vote in Cambodia's Senate elections on Sunday with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) getting about 21.99 percent, according to preliminary results announced by the National Election Committee (NEC).
The CPP announced separately that it had won 46 of the 57 seats up for grabs in the indirect election which was limited to less than 12,000 local councillors and national lawmakers. The SRP said it expected to win 11 seats. Two of the other four seats are appointed by the king and the other two are elected by the National Assembly.
Both parties said they were satisfied with the election environment.
Ok Kim An, an official at CPP headquarters, said: "The number of votes for the CPP rose in every province even though the increase varied from one province to another."
Yim Sovan, the SRP spokesman, noted that his party had only two seats in the outgoing Senate.
The CPP and SRP were the only two parties to field candidates in the election for the Senate, the third since the upper house was established to resolve a political crisis that followed elections for the National Assembly in 1998.
The ruing party held a majority of almost two thirds in the outgoing senate with 45 seats. Funcinpec, the royalist party which has since split but still governs in a nominal coalition with the CPP, had 21 seats including two voted by the National Assembly. Since it didn't field candidates in Sunday's election, both the CPP and SRP expected to gain.
The preliminary results Sunday showed the CPP winning 8,880 votes of the 11,412 valid votes counted with the SRP getting 2,503 votes, the NEC said. A spokesman said some of the completed ballots were invalid.
Voter turnout among the those eligible to cast ballots was 99.6 percent. The NEC said 46 of the the eligible 11,470 members of Commune Councils and the National Assembly did not vote.
After voting closed at 3 p.m., the NEC said the elections had been held in a safe and secure environment.
Cambodia is scheduled to hold commune elections in June ahead of national parliamentary elections in 2013.
The CPP announced separately that it had won 46 of the 57 seats up for grabs in the indirect election which was limited to less than 12,000 local councillors and national lawmakers. The SRP said it expected to win 11 seats. Two of the other four seats are appointed by the king and the other two are elected by the National Assembly.
Both parties said they were satisfied with the election environment.
Ok Kim An, an official at CPP headquarters, said: "The number of votes for the CPP rose in every province even though the increase varied from one province to another."
Yim Sovan, the SRP spokesman, noted that his party had only two seats in the outgoing Senate.
The CPP and SRP were the only two parties to field candidates in the election for the Senate, the third since the upper house was established to resolve a political crisis that followed elections for the National Assembly in 1998.
The ruing party held a majority of almost two thirds in the outgoing senate with 45 seats. Funcinpec, the royalist party which has since split but still governs in a nominal coalition with the CPP, had 21 seats including two voted by the National Assembly. Since it didn't field candidates in Sunday's election, both the CPP and SRP expected to gain.
The preliminary results Sunday showed the CPP winning 8,880 votes of the 11,412 valid votes counted with the SRP getting 2,503 votes, the NEC said. A spokesman said some of the completed ballots were invalid.
Voter turnout among the those eligible to cast ballots was 99.6 percent. The NEC said 46 of the the eligible 11,470 members of Commune Councils and the National Assembly did not vote.
After voting closed at 3 p.m., the NEC said the elections had been held in a safe and secure environment.
Cambodia is scheduled to hold commune elections in June ahead of national parliamentary elections in 2013.
5 comments:
I find its amusing to read CPP officials often making statement of "safe and secure environment."
Its like they know they have killed a lot of people. They know they have committed crimes against its people. They cant sleep at night wondering if they will be killed because of their evil karma they have done.
I don't know why foreign media, CPP officials and the CPP-affiliated local press called this election a landslide victory for the CPP considering that they made only seat gain, while the SRP made 9 seat gains. In the West, this result would have been a big blow and a big loss of face to the ruling party. If we use the percentage of votes to calculate the number of seats, the CPP wins only 44.3 seats, while the SRP wins 12.54 seats. Considering that the CPP held 45 seats in the previous mandate, it means that the CPP has lost 1 seat, while the SRP gained 9 to 10 seats. So, who wins, who lose?
However you want to look at it, for me it is simple, the election is not even close.
The CPP didn't loose any thing but some of others party lost their seats to SRP.
But, SRP can use this result to get some financial support from Cambodian abroad.
"Election in safe and secure environment?" It's a kind of SAFE and SECURE environment in the State of Oppression and Intimidation.Everyone knows that.
The big problem is that 2 other Parasite parties will have their 4members nominated by the NA and the king. It's better that those 2parties disappear for ever........
They are the degusting remnants of the Sangkum Reastr Niyum regime, a demagogic, anti-democratic and dictatiorial regime on which Hun Sen's regime has been copied.
The SRN was A Yes Yes regime, a Beida (Father)-of-everything regime and at last a Thleak TUk Regime!
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