The Election Commission (EC) has concluded that the voter turnout during the recent general election was 75.03 percent while names of MP elects will be gradually endorsed by 10 July unless complaints are received.
EC Secretary General Suthipol Thaweechaikarn disclosed that the EC had thus far received 207 complaints against the outcome of the 3 July general election. 71 complaints are related to defamation and false accusation, 32 to campaign activities that violate the EC regulation, 57 to vote buying, 36 to partiality among electoral staff and 11 to the arrangement of festivities.
The voter turnout for the party-list system was 75.03 percent with void ballots accounting for 4.9 percent and no-vote ballots 2.72 percent. As for the constituency system, the turnout was 74.85 percent while void and no-vote ballots took up 5.79 percent and 4.03 percent, respectively. When compared to the 2007 election, the number of invalid and abstained ballots decreased this time.
The province with the highest turnout was Lamphun at 88.61 percent, followed by Chiang Mai at 83.13 percent and Trang at 82.65 percent.
Mr Suthipol stated that the endorsement of incoming MPs was being conducted and their names would gradually be announced within seven days after the election, or by 10 July. However, if complaints over electoral frauds were received, he said concerned individuals would have to be re-evaluated within 30 days.
BANGKOK, 6 July 2011 (NNT) – Reporter : Surapan Laotharanarit
News Date : 06 July 2011
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