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Thai general election, 1975
General elections were held in Thailand on 26 January 1975. The result was a victory for the new Democrat Party , which won 72 of the 269 seats. Voter turnout was 47.2%.[ 1]
Results
Party
Position
Votes
%
Seats
+/–
Democrat Party Centre[ 2]
3,176,398
17.2
72
+15
Social Justice Party Right-wing[ 2] [ 3]
2,669,736
14.5
45
New
Thai Nation Party Right-wing[ 2]
2,220,897
12.1
28
New
Social Action Party Centre[ 2]
1,982,168
10.8
18
New
Social Agrarian Party Centre-right[ 2]
1,387,451
7.5
19
New
Social Nationalist Party Right-wing[ 2]
1,299,613
7.0
16
New
New Force Party Left-wing[ 2]
1,113,653
6.0
12
New
Socialist Party of Thailand Left-wing[ 2]
819,489
4.4
15
New
Socialist Front Left-wing[ 2]
672,313
3.7
10
New
Peaceful People's Party 509,718
2.8
8
New
National Reconstruction 369,244
2.0
3
New
Thai Party 313,904
1.7
4
New
People's Justice Party 297,102
1.6
6
New
Democracy 283,990
1.5
2
New
Sovereign Party 141,607
0.8
2
New
Labour Party 136,783
0.7
1
New
Golden Cape Party 123,948
0.7
0
New
People Party 122,033
0.7
0
New
Agriculturalist Party 116,062
0.6
1
New
Thai Earth Party 92,957
0.5
2
New
Free People's Party 84,599
0.5
1
New
People's Force 67,127
0.4
2
New
Economist Party 60,962
0.3
1
New
Provincial Development Party 30,103
0.2
1
New
21 other parties
343,164
1.9
0
–
Invalid/blank votes
1,137,291
–
–
–
Total 9,549,924 100 269 +50
Source: Nohlen et al.
References
^ Dieter Nohlen , Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II , p284 ISBN 0-19-924959-8 ^ a b c d e f g h i Sangchai, Somporn (1979), "Some Observations on the Elections and Coalition Formation in Thailand, 1976" , Modern Thai Politics , Transaction Publishers, p. 378 ^ Richardson, Michael (19 April 1976), "Four-party coalition for Thailand" , The Age
