1986 Thai general election
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All 347 seats in the House of Representatives 174 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 61.43% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 27 July 1986. The result was a victory for the Democrat Party, which won 100 of the 347 seats. Voter turnout was 61.4%.[1]
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Democrat Party | 8,477,701 | 22.52 | 100 | +44 | |
Thai Nation Party | 6,496,370 | 17.26 | 63 | –10 | |
Social Action Party | 4,560,615 | 12.12 | 51 | –41 | |
United Democrat Party | 3,814,651 | 10.13 | 38 | New | |
People Party | 2,786,105 | 7.40 | 18 | New | |
Thai Citizen Party | 2,612,717 | 6.94 | 24 | –12 | |
Community Action | 2,268,346 | 6.03 | 15 | New | |
Progress Party | 1,998,721 | 5.31 | 9 | +6 | |
Ruam Thai Party | 1,658,812 | 4.41 | 19 | New | |
National Democrat Party | 1,078,128 | 2.86 | 3 | –12 | |
Mass Party | 723,758 | 1.92 | 3 | New | |
Liberal Party | 404,960 | 1.08 | 1 | New | |
Labour Democrat Party | 246,512 | 0.65 | 1 | +1 | |
New Force Party | 232,027 | 0.62 | 1 | +1 | |
Thai People Party | 196,527 | 0.52 | 1 | –3 | |
Rak Thai | 85,241 | 0.23 | 0 | New | |
Total | 37,641,191 | 100.00 | 347 | +23 | |
Valid votes | 15,506,897 | 96.49 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 564,060 | 3.51 | |||
Total votes | 16,070,957 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 26,160,100 | 61.43 | |||
Source: Nohlen et al. |
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p286 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
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