House of Representatives Election Starts in Thailand
Approximately 50 million registered voters streamed into polling locations nationwide to determine all 500 members of the House of Representatives.
The electoral process requires each voter to complete three distinct ballots: a green ballot for district-level constituency representatives, a pink ballot for party-list selections, and a yellow ballot addressing a critical national referendum on launching a new constitutional drafting process.
Thai electoral law allocates the 500 parliamentary seats through a dual mechanism—400 seats filled via direct constituency elections throughout the country, with the remaining 100 distributed proportionally among political parties based on overall vote share.
The constitutional referendum outcome will decide whether lawmakers move forward with amending the nation's governing charter.
Voting concludes at 5 p.m. local time, with preliminary tallies anticipated later Sunday evening.
Official final results must be published by April 9 at the latest. The newly elected parliament faces a 15-day deadline to assemble and select a speaker, followed by the critical House of Representatives vote designating the next prime minister.
Political analysts widely characterize the election as a three-way battle among the Bhumjaithai Party, the People's Party, and the Pheu Thai Party. Observers expect no single faction will capture sufficient seats for majority control, making coalition government formation virtually certain.
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