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Monday, 24 December 2007

Latest Thai election results showing People's Power Party in a lanslide victory?


picture: Thai election workers busy at work.

Early and unofficial results show the Palang Prachachon (People Power) party loyal to Thaksin Shinawatra has won an outright parliamentary majority in Sunday's election.
The PPP has taken 220 of the 400 seats in constituency voting, and has won 35 of the 80 party-list seats.
If those results are confirmed in official vote-counting Sunday night and Monday, the People Power party would easily capture more than the 241 seats needed to form a government itself - with no need of a coalition.
Observers cautioned there are several roadblocks ahead, even after final vote-counting is confirmed. For one thing, there are dozens of challenges alleging vote fraud, many against PPP candidates.
It must be stressed the results are unofficial, and based on a combination of exit polls and early vote results trickling in as reported by news media at polling stations.
Although Bangkok media agreed that early counting gave the PPP an outright majority, pollsters who conducted exit polls after the Sunday voting showed slight but important differences.
A Dusit Poll for Bangkok's Suan Dusit Rajabhat University forecast that PPP had won a majority of 256 seats, compared to 162 for the rival Democrat Party. However, Abac Poll of Assumption University said its survey showed PPP had won 202 seats, falling short of an outright majority, with the Democrats taking 146.
An Election Commission official told the Associated Press that with 40 per cent of the vote counted, the pro-Thaksin PPP has won 229 seats. The EC vote is official, but the agency has not actually released any final results.


(BangkokPost.com) - Unofficial results of the constituency candidacy (total 400 seats) throughout Thailand as of 6.30pm.

People Power party -- 220 seats
Democrat -- 162 seats
Chart Thai -- 40 seats
Puea Pandin -- 30 seats
Ruamjaithai Chartpattana -- 13 seats
Matchimathipataya -- 10 seats
Pracharaj -- 5 seats
Unofficial results of the party-list candidacy (total 80 seats)
People Power party -- 34 seats
Democrat -- 33 seats
Chart Thai -- 4 seats
Puea Pandin -- 7 seats
Ruamjaithai Chartpattana -- 1 seats
Matchimathipataya -- 0 seats
Pracharaj -- 1 seats

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