Cambodian general election, 1998
Cambodian general election, 1998
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Composition of the second National Assembly of Cambodia. |
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General elections were held in Cambodia on 26 July 1998. The result was a victory for the Cambodian People's Party, which won 64 of the 122 seats. Voter turnout was 93.7%.[1]
Results
Party |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
+/- |
Cambodian People's Party | 2,030,790 | 41.4 | 64 | +13 |
Funcinpec Party | 1,554,405 | 31.7 | 43 | -15 |
Sam Rainsy Party | 699,665 | 14.3 | 15 | New |
Democratic Party | 90,000 | 1.8 | 0 | New |
Cambodian National Sustaining Party | 71,093 | 1.4 | 0 | New |
Liberal Democratic Party for National Salvation | 46,424 | 0.9 | 0 | New |
Sonn Sann's Party | 45,849 | 0.9 | 0 | -10 |
Nationalist Party | 37,308 | 0.8 | 0 | New |
Buddhist Liberal Party | 32,959 | 0.7 | 0 | New |
Khmer Angkor Party | 26,482 | 0.5 | 0 | New |
Cambodian Citizens' Party | 23,713 | 0.5 | 0 | New |
Cambodian Unity Party | 19,232 | 0.4 | 0 | New |
Republican Coalition Party | 14,869 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Liberal Democratic Party | 14,088 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Free Development Republican Party | 13,780 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Rally for National Solidarity | 13,038 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
National Unification Party | 11,089 | 0.2 | 0 | New |
National Restoration Party | 10,451 | 0.2 | 0 | New |
Light of Freedom Party | 10,027 | 0.2 | 0 | New |
Molinaka and Naktaorsou Khmer for Freedom | 8,395 | 0.2 | 0 | -1 |
Cambodian Free Independent Democracy Party | 3,938 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
Neutral Democratic Party of Cambodia | 3,869 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
Free Republican Party | 1,654 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Twelve other parties | 119,372 | 2.4 | 0 | - |
Invalid/blank votes | 155,189 | - | - | - |
Total | 5,057,679 | 100 | 122 | +2 |
Source: Nohlen et al. |
References
- ↑ Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p70 ISBN 0-19-924959-8