1976 Thai general election
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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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
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Democrat Party | 4,745,990 | 25.31 | 114 | +42 | |
Thai Nation Party | 3,280,134 | 17.49 | 56 | +28 | |
Social Action Party | 3,272,170 | 17.45 | 45 | +27 | |
Social Justice Party | 1,725,568 | 9.20 | 28 | –17 | |
New Force Party | 1,276,208 | 6.81 | 3 | –9 | |
People's Force | 746,985 | 3.98 | 3 | +1 | |
Social Agrarian Party | 672,259 | 3.59 | 9 | –10 | |
Social Nationalist Party | 642,078 | 3.42 | 8 | –8 | |
Socialist Party of Thailand | 357,385 | 1.91 | 2 | –13 | |
Dharmacracy Party | 264,526 | 1.41 | 1 | New | |
Thai Protection Party | 223,048 | 1.19 | 1 | New | |
United Democratic Front | 196,998 | 1.05 | 1 | New | |
Socialist Front | 174,432 | 0.93 | 1 | –9 | |
Labour Party | 161,031 | 0.86 | 1 | 0 | |
Social Thai Party | 125,037 | 0.67 | 1 | New | |
People's Peaceful Party | 104,084 | 0.56 | 0 | –8 | |
Provincial Development Party | 100,162 | 0.53 | 2 | +1 | |
Thai Party | 98,487 | 0.53 | 0 | –4 | |
Free Force | 95,056 | 0.51 | 0 | New | |
National Reconstruction | 79,894 | 0.43 | 0 | –3 | |
New Siam Party | 72,664 | 0.39 | 1 | New | |
Democracy | 59,472 | 0.32 | 1 | –1 | |
Social Progress Party | 25,028 | 0.13 | 1 | New | |
Agriculturalist Party | 24,987 | 0.13 | 0 | –1 | |
People Party | 11,919 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | |
15 other parties | 215,209 | 1.15 | 0 | – | |
Total | 18,750,811 | 100.00 | 279 | +10 | |
Valid votes | 8,619,302 | 95.00 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 453,327 | 5.00 | |||
Total votes | 9,072,629 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 20,623,430 | 43.99 | |||
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
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