Thai general election, 2011

Thai general election, 2011
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Leader Yingluck Shinawatra Abhisit Vejjajiva
Party Pheu Thai Democrat
Leader since 16 May 2011 6 March 2005
Leader's seat Party List (#1) Party List (#1)
Last election Did not contest 164 seats, 30.30%
Seats before 189 173
Seats won 265 159
Seat change 76 14
Popular vote 15,744,190 11,433,762
Percentage 48.41% 35.15%
Key:

■ – Pheu Thai ■ – Democrat ■ – BhumjaiThai ■ – Chartthai ■ – Palung Chon ■ – no majority
Parties that won majority of seats per province. Each province consists of one or more single-seat constituencies; the color represents what party won the majority of seats in that province. This should not be interpreted as a winner-take-all result as some parties may have also won seats there.
Prime Minister before election

Abhisit Vejjajiva
Democrat

 Prime Minister-designate

Yingluck Shinawatra
Pheu Thai
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A general election for 24th House of Representatives[1] took place throughout Thailand on Sunday, 3 July 2011, by virtue of the Royal Decree Dissolving the House of Representatives, 2554 BE (2011), which caused the House of Representatives to be dissolved on 10 May 2011.[2]

The protestors of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) or "Red Shirts" who occupied downtown Bangkok in April and May 2010 had demanded new elections. The government's counter-proposal to hold elections on 14 November 2010 was rejected by them and was followed by a violent crackdown when the protestors refused to disburse.[3][4] Elections were finally announced in May 2011.

With a turnout of 75.03%,[5] populist Pheu Thai Party won a majority with 265 seats.[6] Its leader Yingluck Shinawatra became the first female prime minister in the history of Thailand.[7] The Democrat Party therefore became the main opposition party with a total of 159 seats.[6]

The election results were acknowledged on 27 July, after the Election Commission dealt with a great number of objections over alleged irregularities.[8] Reelections and recount were ordered to be held in several provinces, due to electoral fraud discovered by the Commission.[9][10][11] The first session of the National Assembly was convoked on Monday, 1 August at Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall and its state opening was held at the same time.[12]

Following the victory by Pheu Thai Party, several countries, including Germany[13] and Japan,[14] lifted the ban that had once been imposed upon Thaksin Shinawatra, a convicted felon in Thailand.

Contents

Background

Further information: 2008–2010 Thai political crisis and 2005–2006 Thai political crisis

After the Thai general election, 2007, the People’s Power Party won a majority of seats in the parliament and became the leading party to set up the new government. Samak Sundaravej, party leader, became the 25th Prime Minister of Thailand. This election victory led to a series of political demonstrations by the royalist Peoples Alliance for Democracy ("Yellow Shirts").

On 2 December 2008, the People’s Power Party had been dissolved by the Constitutional Court over vote buying. The PPP's executive team was banned from politics for 5 years. After the party's dissolution, all of the party's members of parliament had to join another party if they wished to retain their seat. The majority of them transferred to the newly founded Pheu Thai Party. Some representatives defected to the Democrats, which enabled the Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva to be elected by parliament as prime minister.

The National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship ("Red Shirts") was a pressure group that opposed the Thai military's alleged influence in the formation of Abhisit's government. It promptly organised several rounds of protests and calls for general elections. Abhisit government finally ordered the military to crack down on the Red Shirts in 2009, resulting in several deaths and hundreds of injuries on both sides.

The Red Shirts launched a new round of protests in mid-2010, again demanding new elections. The 14 March protest, centered around Phan Fah bridge, were the largest in Thai history and were mostly peaceful.[15] In April and May 2010 heavy Red Shirt protests led to violent clashes. Eventually, the military cracked down on the protest camp in the heart of Bangkok from 13 to 19 May 2010.

Abhisit government's had passed several major amendments on electoral laws on 11 February 2011, transforming the constituency vote from multiple-seats-per-constituency to single-seat-per-constituency, reducing the number of constituency MPs, and increasing the proportional party list MPs. In the previous general elections in 2007, the Democrat Party had lost the constituency vote but won the proportional party list vote.[16]

On 17 February 2011 Prime Minister Abhisit announced that parliament would be dissolved by June.[17] On 11 March 2011, it was further announced that parliament would be dissolved by the first week of May 2011.[18]

Election date

Previously a proposal had made to hold the election on 14 November 2010, however, this was pushed back following a failure to come to agreement during the crisis.

On 9 May, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced that he would dissolve the lower house of parliament to hold an election on 3 July. King Bhumibol Adulyadej signed his approval the dissolution decree the same day. This motion followed a court ruling the same day that the recently approved electoral laws (to 2007 Constitution §§93–98 involving method of electing members of parliament[19]) are constitutional. Had parliament been dissolved without the ruling, there would have been a possibility of challenging the election date.[20]

Candidates

This election covered 375 party-list seats constituencies, and 125 under the additional Member System.[21] After registration closed, party leaders participated in a random drawing of the number determining the order in which their parties appear on ballots, numbers which are also used in nationwide campaigning. Yingluck Shinawatra received a major psychological boost when her Pheu Thai party drew the number one; sitting Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's Democrat Party drew number ten.

Represented number Party's name
1 Pheu Thai Party*[22]
2 Chart Pattana Puea Pandin Party*[23]
3 New Democracy Party[24]
4 Thai Citizen Party
5 Rak Thailand Party
6 Phalang Chon Party[25]
7 Prachatham Party[26]
8 Dumrongthai Party
9 Mass Power Party
10 Democrat Party*
11 Thai Por-Pieng Party[27]
12 Rak Santi Party
13 Thaipensuk Party[28]
14 Social Action Party*
15 Thai Pen Thai Party
16 Bhumjaithai Party*
17 Thaen Khun Phaendin Party[29]
18 For Heaven and Earth Party[30]
19 The Farmer Network of Thailand Party
20 New Politics Party
Represented number Parties name
21 Chartthaipattana Party*[31]
22 Liberal Party
23 Chart Samuccee Party
24 Bamrungmueang Party
25 Kasikornthai Party
26 Matubhum Party
27 Better Life Party
28 Palung Sungkom Thai Party
29 Thai Party for Thai People[32]
30 Mahachon Party[33]
31 Prachachon Chow Thai Party
32 Rakpandin Party
33 Civil Peace Party
34 New Aspiration Party*
35 Asamatupoom Party
36 Sport Party of Thailand
37 Parung Chownathai Party[32]
38 Thai Sangsun Party
39 Puen Kaset Thai Party[32]
40 Maharatpattana Party[34]

* Sent 125 candidates for all party-list seats

Election violence

Pracha Prasopdee, ex-MP for Samut Prakan Province who had won all five of the previous elections, was shot in the back on the night of 10 May. Pracha had been a member of the Thai Rak Thai, Peoples Power, and Pheu Thai parties.[35]

Issues

After the drawing, the Election Commission of Thailand distributed handouts nation-wide, listing all registered parties by number, name and logo; each party's list of candidates and party platform; modified for each district with campaign portraits of their candidates, again in numerical order. Local campaigners add party numbers to pre-printed campaign posters, or print new ones. In most cases, the numbers are in Red, but in the latter part of the campaign, the Democrat Party (10) changed theirs to Green.

Thaksin and the monarchy

The Democrat Party promised that with their rule all Thais would live "under the same sky" with all groups being served fairly, whereas a Pheu Thai victory would result in "mob rule" in which social division and violence would spread and some groups could stand above the law. Abhisit referred to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as a poison that had to be detoxified.[36] The Democrats have repeatedly accused Thaksin and the Pheu Thai Party of disloyalty to King Bhumibol.[37]

Alliances

The parties Bhumjaithai and Chartthaipattana formed a pre-campaign electoral alliance pledging to support whichever party won.[38] The parties were members of Abhisit's coalition.

Jailing of opposition leaders

Red Shirt leaders Jatuporn Prompan and Nisit Sinthuprai had been jailed for months on charges of violating national security and insulting King Bhumibol following the 2010 crackdown on the Red Shirts. They had been released on bail, but the bail was revoked immediately after Abhisit announced the 2011 elections. They were not allowed to vote in the elections.[39]

Celebrities and political heirs

Abhisit unveiled a slate of candidates highlighted by 30 celebrities and heirs of political families, including Chitpas Bhirombhakdi, heiress of the Singha Beer fortune and former staff member of Abhisit's secretariat office.[40] She had earlier resigned after she was caught handing out nude calendars to secretariat office staff.

The Chartthaipattana fielded four sports celebrities as candidates: former national team football player Piyapong Pue-on, tennis player Paradorn Srichapan, Olympic taekwondo bronze medallist Yaowapa Boorapolchai, and former rugby player Apirak Areemitr.

Minimum wage

Abhisit promised to increase the minimum wage by 25% if the Democrat Party won the election.[41]

The Pheu Thai Party promised to increase the minimum wage to 300 baht per day. Abhisit had promised to raise the minimum wage to 300 baht prior to the elections, but changed his mind after pressure from employers.[42]

Angry Man

Rak Thailand Party of Chuwit Kamolvisit conducted a vigorous "Angry Man" campaign pledging to be in opposition to whichever party won.[43]

NO campaign

For Heaven and Earth Party (political arm of the Santi Asoke Buddhist sect) supported the NO campaign of some PAD supporters, which featured proverbal animals in color-coded suits as non-human electoral candidates, most bearing the slogan: Don’t let animals enter parliament (อย่าปล่อยสัตว์เข้าสภา). Also prominent: Flee (หนี...) (blue-suited tiger) For (ปะ...) (red-suited crocodile).[44][45] Chamlong Srimuang, a key supporter of the “vote-no” movement, did not vote “no” after all. In fact, he did not vote at all; his and his wife’s names were not on the list of eligible voters as they had voted in advance in the previous election but did not realise that they had to inform election officials that they did not want to do so in this one.[46]

Other

Other PAD supporters, however, formed the New Politics Party whose logo is a yellow sauwastika under a Trairanga rainbow.[47]

Opinion polling

Results of a Suan Dusit Rajabhat University poll (4–18 June): Pheu Thai 51.55 %; Democrat 34.04 %; Bhum Jai Thai 3.43 %; Rak Prathet Thai 2.48 %; Chart Thai Pattana 1.60 %; against all 1.41 %; undecided 2.38 %[48]

23–28 May: Pheu Thai 43.16 %; Democrat 37.45 %; Bhum Jai Thai 2.64 %; Chart Thai Pattana 2.46 %; Rak Prathet Thai 1.43 %; others 4.42 %; undecided 7.08; rest would not vote – Democrats strongest in Southern Region (65.89 %), Pheu Thai in Northern (73.17 %)[49]

19–22 May: Pheu Thai 41.22 %; Democrat 36.88 %; Bhum Jai Thai 3.88 %; Chart Thai Pattana 3.20 %; Rak Prathet Thai 1.59 %[50]

Abroad voting and early voting

In this election more eligible voters turned up to vote. The number of Thais registered to vote from abroad is 147,330, the equivalent of just over half the population of Mae Hong Son Province and soared from 90,205 in 2008 – in Singapore the figure has surpassed 10,000 while in United Kingdom the number has doubled from 2,296 to 4,775.[51] Early voting arranged on Sunday (26 June 2011) only while prior elections arranged on Saturday and Sunday. Around 2.6 million people, including 1.07 million in Bangkok turned up to vote; however, many potential voters were unable to vote due to large crowds.[52]

Election result

Exit poll indicated that Pheu Thai had won the election outright, winning a majority of seats.[53][54]

According to preliminary results Pheu Thai won 265 seats (204 constituency-based + 61 party-list), Democrats 159 (115 + 44), Bhumjai Thai 34 (29 + 5), Chartthaipattana 19 (15 + 4), Palung Chon 7 (6 + 1), Chart Pattana Puea Pandin 7 (5 + 2), Love Thailand 4 (all party-list), Matubhum 2 (1 + 1), New Democrat 1 (party-list) and Mahachon one party-list seat.[6] Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has already conceded the victory of Puea Thai Party and congratulated Ms. Shinawatra as the designated Prime Minister.[7]

According to preliminary figures from the Electoral Commission the voter turnout was at 65.99%.[5]

Following the provisional results, Ms. Shinawatra said that "Puea Thai had already reached an agreement with one smaller party, Chart Thai Pattana, about joining a coalition, and was in negotiations with others."

Preliminary Results

↓
265
19
16
7
34
159
Pheu Thai
CP
Other
BJT
Democrat
e • d Summary of the 3 July 2011 House of Representatives of Thailand Thai general election results
Parties Constituency Proportional TOTAL
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Seats %
Pheu Thai 204 15,744,190 48.41 61 265 53.0%
Democrat 115 11,433,762 35.15 44 159 31.8%
Bhumjaithai 29 1,281,577 3.94 5 34 6.8%
Chartthaipattana 15 906,656 2.79 4 19 3.8%
Chart Pattana Puea Pandin 5 494,894 1.52 2 7 1.4%
Phalang Chon 6 178,110 0.55 1 7 1.4%
Rak Thailand 0 998,603 3.07 4 4 0.8%
Matubhum 1 251,702 0.77 1 2 0.4%
Rak Santi 0 284,132 0.87 1 1 0.2%
Mahachon 0 133,772 0.41 1 1 0.2%
New Democracy 0 125,784 0.39 1 1 0.2%
Other Parties 0 692,322 2.13 0 0 0.0%
Valid Votes 375 32,525,504 125 500 100%
None of the Above 1,419,088 4.03%   958,052 2.72%
Invalid Votes 2,039,694 5.79% 1,726,051 4.90%
Total Turnouts
Abstention
Total Electors
Source: Election of Members of House of Representatives B.E.2554

Following process

Acknowledgement of election result

After the election was held on 3 July, the next procedure is that the Election Commission acknowledges the election result within thirty days from the election date in order that Abhisit Vejjajaiva, Caretaker Prime Minister, would enact a royal decree convoking the House of Representatives to have the new President of the House, Vice President of the House and Prime Minister selected respectively, and the President of the House would then advice and consent the King to appoint a new Prime Minister according to the resolution of the House.[55]

The Election Commission met to consider the election result in the afternoon of 12 July. The meeting was held until nightfall. More than fifty Red-Shirt members gathered in front of the Election Commission Office awaiting the outcome, with strict control of the police officers. That night, three hundred and fifty candidates were acknowledged by the Election Commission as the members of the House, but not including Yingluck Shinawatra, Abhisit Vejjajiva and Nattawut Saikua by cause of a great number of objections pending consideration.[55] The remainders, that is, one hundred and forty two elected candidates, are to be acknowledged by 20 July, said the Election Commission.[56] Yingluck described the postponement as part of a "normal process" for the Commission.[57]

On 19 July, both Yingluck and Abhisit were acknowledged as the members of the House. On 27 July, the acknowledgement extended to further ninety four elected candidates. Now and eventually, the number acknowledged sufficed to constitute the House. This, however, did not include Jatuporn Prompan whom the Election Commission declared to have lost the suffrage due to failure to vote in both the previous and the present elections. The Constitution requires that a member of the House must possess the suffrage, and also prescribes that a person failing to vote in an election loses the suffrage but regains it once he votes in the next election.[8]

The Election Commission's announcements of the acknowledgement were published in the Government Gazette as follows:

# Announcements Number of candidates acknowledged Date of acknowledgement Published in
Proportional
1 Announcement of the Election Commission,
Re: Results of election of party-proportional members of the House of Representatives,
dated 12 July 2011		 109 12 July 2011 Government Gazette:
volume 128/part 58 A/page 6/21 July, 2011
2 Announcement of the Election Commission,
Re: Results of election of party-proportional members of the House of Representatives (2nd group),
dated 19 July 2011		 2 19 July 2011 Government Gazette:
volume 128/part 59 A/page 6/27 July, 2011
3 Announcement of the Election Commission,
Re: Results of election of party-proportional members of the House of Representatives (3rd group),
dated 21 July 2011		 6 21 July 2011 Government Gazette:
volume 128/part 59 A/page 11/27 July, 2011
4 Announcement of the Election Commission,
Re: Results of election of party-proportional members of the House of Representatives (4th group),
dated 27 July 2011		 7 27 July 2011 Government Gazette:
volume 128/part 60 A/page 10/28 July, 2011
Constituency
5 Announcement of the Election Commission,
Re: Results of election of constituency-type members of the House of Representatives,
dated 12 July 2011		 249 12 July 2011 Government Gazette:
volume 128/part 58 A/page 11/21 July, 2011
6 Announcement of the Election Commission,
Re: Results of election of constituency-type members of the House of Representatives (2nd group),
dated 19 July 2011		 10 19 July 2011 Government Gazette:
volume 128/part 59 A/page 4/27 July, 2011
7 Announcement of the Election Commission,
Re: Results of election of constituency-type members of the House of Representatives (3rd group),
dated 21 July 2011		 26 21 July 2011 Government Gazette:
volume 128/part 59 A/page 7/27 July, 2011
8 Announcement of the Election Commission,
Re: Results of election of constituency-type members of the House of Representatives (4th group),
dated 27 July 2011		 87 27 July 2011 Government Gazette:
volume 128/part 60 A/page 11/28 July, 2011

Disqualifications

Five red cards were expected during balloting in Sukhothai Province, Chaiyaphum Province, Maha Sarakham Province, Sisaket Province and Buriram Province in reference to campaign fraud.[58] There have been allegations of massive electoral fraud against third-place finisher Bhumjaithai Party that could potentially lead to the party dissolution by the Constitutional Court[59]

On 21 July, the Election Commission ordered the re-elections to be held in Sukhothai province and Nong Khai Province.[9][10] It also ordered a recount in Yala Province.[11]

First sessions

Abhisit enacted on 29 July the Royal Decree Convoking the National Assembly, BE 2554 (2011), by which the National Assembly, both the House of Representatives and the Senate, convened on Monday, 1 August 2011 at Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall. The state ceremony of opening the National Assembly was presided over by Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn instead of his aged father who has been confined in hospital for so long.[12] In this first joint session of the National Assembly, Somsak Kiatsuranont has been elected as the President of the House of Representatives (ex officio President of the National Assembly of Thailand); several other members have been selected as the Vice Presidents of the House.[60] The first separate session of the House of Representatives was held in the morning of 5 August to select a new Prime Minister.[61] In which 296 of the 500 members of parliament voted to approve the premiership of Yingluck Shinawatra, three disapproved, and 197 abstained. Four Democrat lawmakers were absent.[62][63] Somsak Kiatsuranont, President of the National Assembly, advised and consented King Bhumibol Adulyadej to appoint Yingluck Prime Minister on August 8.[64] The Proclamation on her appointment has taken retroactive effect from August 5.[65]

Yingluck has set up her Council of Ministers on August 9. She and her Ministers were sworn in on August 10.[66] They must then complete addressing their administrative policy to the National Assembly. According to the Constitution, the address must be made within fifteen days from the effective date of the Proclamation on Yingluck's appointment.[67]

Reactions

On 4 July, Abhisit Vejjajiva stepped down as the leader of the Democrat Party, as he had promised for the case of a defeat of his party.[68] Chartthaipattana Party, Chart Pattana Puea Pandin Party, Phalang Chon Party and Mahachon Party agreed to join a coalition government led by the Pheu Thai Party which having 299 seats in the new House of Representatives altogether.[59] Acting defense minister General Prawit Wongsuwan declared that the armed forces would accept the results and "allow politicians to work it out" without any interference, while the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, pledged not to make any comments during the process of government formation.[69]

The Cambodian foreign minister Hor Namhong congratulated the winners of the election, stating "We cannot hide that we are happy with the Pheu Thai Party's victory" and expressing confidence that under the new government the Cambodian–Thai border dispute will be settled.[70] Thai stock markets reacted unexpectedly positive on the clear Pheu Thai victory, rising by 5 % on the first trading day after the elections. Before the election, investors were not confident that Pheu Thai would gain a majority, which may have resulted in renewed political instability. Markets viewed the election outcome as reaffirming, most probably bringing a legitimate new government with a strong mandate and at least short-term political stability.[71]

On 10 July, Lamian Yusuk, a 80-year-old Rayong inhabitant who claimed herself a truly loyal fan of the Democrat Party, committed suicide by consuming herbicide after deeply disappointing with the vanquishment of the Party. Many Democrat Party's members of the House of Representatives attended her funeral, but not including Abhisit who later expressed his commiseration to the deceased's relatives through telephone. Her death attracts much public criticisms about her, both positive and negative.[72]

The Election Commission's eventual acknowledgment of election results caused, on 28 July, the State's stock market to be rising by 3.67. Stock market assistant director Thirada Chaiyuenyong said that the shares index for that day was quite strong, comparing to the regional indexes. She also remarked that the higher index was a "result of merit" of the said acknowledgment which brought about the sufficient number of the elected lawmakers to constitute the House of Representatives.[73] Many States, including Germany[13] and Japan,[14] also lifted the ban on entry which has been imposed on Thaksin Shinawatra during the regime of Abhisit.

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