1983 Thai general election
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All 324 seats in the House of Representatives 163 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 50.76% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in Thailand on 18 April 1983. The result was a victory for the Social Action Party, which won 92 of the 324 seats. Voter turnout was 50.8%.[1]
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Social Action Party | 7,103,177 | 26.78 | 92 | +10 | |
Thai Nation Party | 6,315,568 | 23.81 | 73 | +35 | |
Democrat Party | 4,144,414 | 15.63 | 56 | +23 | |
Thai Citizen Party | 2,395,795 | 9.03 | 36 | +4 | |
National Democrat Party | 2,137,780 | 8.06 | 15 | New | |
Siam Democrat Party | 839,915 | 3.17 | 18 | New | |
Free People Party | 474,402 | 1.79 | 1 | New | |
Progress Party | 338,140 | 1.28 | 3 | New | |
Social Democratic Party | 297,332 | 1.12 | 2 | +2 | |
New Force Party | 195,340 | 0.74 | 0 | –8 | |
Thai People Party | 180,364 | 0.68 | 4 | New | |
United Nation Party | 14,866 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
Labour Democrat Party | 1,493 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Other parties | 81,845 | 0.31 | 0 | – | |
Independents | 2,000,290 | 7.54 | 24 | –39 | |
Total | 26,520,721 | 100.00 | 324 | +23 | |
Valid votes | 11,797,212 | 95.95 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 498,127 | 4.05 | |||
Total votes | 12,295,339 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 24,224,470 | 50.76 | |||
Source: Nohlen et al. |
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p285 ISBN 0-19-924959-8