Even though PPRP garnered 7.9 million votes, or 24% of total votes, Pheu Thai is believed to have captured 137 of the 350 constituency seats up for grabs, compared with PPRP’s 97 seats. Meanwhile, party list figures have not been released by the Election Commission (EC), but Pheu Thai is expected to get none of the 150 party list seats. Together, the 350 constituency wards and 150 party list seats will make up Thailand’s 500-seat parliament.
SINGAPORE (Apr 1): “CheatingElection19” was among the top trending terms on social media amid allegations of electoral fraud, following Thailand’s general election on March 24 — the first in five years after then prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was toppled in a military coup in 2014.
Both the anti-junta Pheu Thai party and the military-backed Palang Pracharath (PPRP) party have claimed victory at the polls. Based on incomplete, preliminary results reported so far, Pheu Thai has won the most seats, whereas PPRP claims to have won the popular vote under a complex election system that mixes first-past-the-post and proportional representation formats.
