2014 Thai general election

2014 Thai general election
Thailand
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All 500 seats in the House of Representatives
251 seats needed for a majority
Turnout47.72%
Prime Minister before Prime Minister-designate
Yingluck Shinawatra
Pheu Thai
Election results annulled
Prayut Chan-o-cha became
Prime Minister

Early general elections were held in Thailand on Sunday, 2 February 2014,[1] after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra asked King Bhumibol Adulyadej to dissolve parliament more than a year early owing to Thailand's political crisis. Voters elected a new House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Assembly. Voting was disrupted in 69 of 375 constituencies by the opposition that had called for a boycott. This made a re-run in several stages necessary, depending on the security situation in the affected districts. The first re-run date was on 2 March. Results were expected to be announced after voting had taken place in all parts of the country.[2]

On 21 March 2014, the Constitutional Court invalidated the elections on grounds that they were not completed within one day throughout the country.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Obama defends interim Iran deal".
  2. ^ Thailand re-runs polls as protests dwindle, Al Jazeera English, 2 March 2014
  3. ^ "Thailand Constitutional Court voids February election". Straits Times. 2014-03-21. Archived from the original on 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
  4. ^ "Breaking News: เลือกตั้ง 2 กุมภาพันธ์ โมฆะ มติศาล รธน. 6 ต่อ 3" [Breaking News: Charter court, by 6 votes to 3, invalidated 2 Feb election] (in Thai). Voice TV. 2014-03-21. Archived from the original on 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
  5. ^ "Constitutional Court nullifies Feb 2 election". The Nation. 2014-03-21. Archived from the original on 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2014-03-21.

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