BANGKOK, March 25 (TNA) – As the Election Commission (EC) is scheduled to announce an unofficial election results at 2 pm. today, the real-time vote counting showed the pro-army Palang Pracharat Party is leading with 7.9 million popular votes.
Pol Col Jarungvith Phumma, secretary-general of the EC is set to announce an unofficial election results for the 500-seat lower House of Representatives at the EC headquarters at 2 p.m.
The opposition Pheu Thai Party was trailing with 7.4 million votes, followed by the Future Forward Party with 5.8 million votes.
Meanwhile, the Pheu Thai Party won the lion’s share of 135 parliamentary constituency seats, out of all 350 constituency seats contested.
Palang Pracharat got 98 constituency seats.
There were 51,205,624 eligible voters. Voter turnout was 65.96 per cent with 5.6 per cent of void ballots.
The EC will also consider the delayed ballot delivery from New Zealand if they will be voided.
About 1,500 advance ballots from New Zealand were not delivered to their intended polling stations for vote counting before the election ended at 5 pm. yesterday. (TNA)
