An election officer counts votes at a polling station in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 24.
Thailand's election commission on Wednesday announced the final results of the March 24 general election — the first since a military coup in 2014 — that gave no party an absolute majority and probably will prompt legal challenges. The commission distributed 150 party list seats in the 500-member House of Representatives under a complicated formula related to each party's nationwide popular vote total. Twenty-six parties were granted seats, 14 of them one apiece, while one seat was held open pending a revote in a constituency whose winning candidate was disqualified.The commission's failure to clearly explain its formula had led to suspicions it might fiddle with the total.
On Tuesday, each party was allocated its share of the 350 constituency seats. Pheu Thai topped the field by winning 136 constituencies, while Palang Pracharat was second with 97 seats, though it received the most popular votes. Neither party received a majority, and both are attempting to put together coalitions with smaller parties to form a government.
Wow thanks for this reporting. I didn't even know they were having an election and I think I forgot about the coup. I wish the U.S. politics stories were replaced with more global stories like this.
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