Thai general election, 1976
Thai general election, 1976
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Early general elections were held in Thailand on 4 April 1976 after the House of Representatives had been dissolved prematurely on 12 January.[1] A total of 2,350 candidates representing 39 parties contested the election, although voter turnout was only 44.0%.[2] The result was a victory for the Democrat Party, which won 114 of the 279 seats.
Results
| Party |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
+/– |
|---|
| Democrat Party | 4,745,990 | 25.3 | 114 | +42 |
| Thai Nation Party | 3,280,134 | 17.5 | 56 | +28 |
| Social Action Party | 3,272,170 | 17.5 | 45 | +27 |
| Social Justice Party | 1,725,568 | 9.2 | 28 | –17 |
| New Force Party | 1,276,208 | 6.8 | 3 | –9 |
| People's Force | 746,985 | 4.0 | 3 | +1 |
| Social Agrarian Party | 672,259 | 3.6 | 9 | –10 |
| Social Nationalist Party | 642,078 | 3.4 | 8 | –8 |
| Socialist Party of Thailand | 357,385 | 1.9 | 2 | –13 |
| Dharmacracy Party | 264,526 | 1.4 | 1 | New |
| Thai Protection Party | 223,048 | 1.2 | 1 | New |
| United Democratic Front | 196,998 | 1.1 | 1 | New |
| Labour Party | 161,031 | 0.9 | 1 | 0 |
| Social Thai Party | 125,037 | 0.7 | 1 | New |
| People's Peaceful Party | 104,084 | 0.6 | 0 | –8 |
| Provincial Development Party | 100,162 | 0.5 | 2 | +1 |
| Thai Party | 98,487 | 0.5 | 1 | New |
| Free Force | 95,056 | 0.5 | 0 | New |
| National Reconstruction | 79,894 | 0.4 | 0 | –3 |
| New Siam Party | 72,664 | 0.4 | 1 | New |
| Democracy | 59,472 | 0.3 | 1 | –1 |
| Social Progress Party | 25,028 | 0.1 | 1 | New |
| Agriculturalist Party | 24,987 | 0.1 | 0 | –1 |
| People Party | 11,919 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 other parties | 215,209 | 2.5 | 0 | – |
| Invalid/blank votes | 453,327 | – | – | – |
| Total | 9,072,629 | 100 | 279 | +10 |
| Source: Nohlen et al. |
References
- ↑ Thailand Inter-Parliamentary Union
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p284 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
