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General elections were held in Thailand on 14 May 2023 to elect 500 members of the House of Representatives. [2] The Move Forward Party, led by Pita Limjaroenrat, surprised analysts by winning the most seats, followed by fellow opposition party Pheu Thai who had won the most seats in the 2011 and 2019 elections. Turnout was a record 75.22%. [3] [4]
Voter turnout during elections is not much of a problem in Thailand as voting is compulsory and is one of the responsibilities described in the Constitution a citizen must exercise. Turnout is however much higher during general elections (85% in 2007, 75% in 2019 [ 8 ] ) than they are for Senate (56% in 2008, 43% in 2014 [ 9 ] ) or local ...
Local elections were held in Thailand on 1 February 2025 to elect members and leaders of Provincial Administrative Organizations (PAO) in 76 provinces. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 47 provinces, both PAO chairs and members were elected, in 29 provinces, only members were elected.
Thailand’s Election Commission on Tuesday said it will seek the dissolution of the progressive Move Forward party, which won last year's general election, after a court ruled that the party’s ...
Trailing with 7.16 million votes was Pheu Thai, a party linked to the self-exiled ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose loyalists have won every election since 2001. Thailand's pro-army ...
A Thai court will on Wednesday decide whether former prime ministerial hopeful Pita Limjaroenrat broke the rules of a 2023 election won by his party, the first of two cases targeting an opposition ...
This will be the third election under the 2017 constitution, which was implemented under the National Council for Peace and Order (the junta that took power in the 2014 Thai coup d'état), and the first after the expiration of the constitution's five-year transitory provision that gave the senate voting rights to choose the prime minister in a joint session of parliament.
Her Pheu Thai party came only in second in 2023's election but cobbled together a ruling coalition after the vote-winner was blocked by military-backed lawmakers.