Talk:2006 Thai general election

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Did you know... that national legislative elections will be held in Thailand on April 2, 2006, following the decision by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to dissolve the lower house of the Thai legislature, the House of Representatives?

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Southern Thailand

I remove last paragraph. If opposition really call for boycott, it couldn't automatically imply that southern part will have no representative or forced to vote for indenpendent party only.

--Underexpose 23:42, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree that was not very well phrased. What is true is that all but one of the southern seats will lose their current representation. No doubt the minority of voters who don't abstain in these seats will elect somebody to represent them. But since the area voted very solidly for the DP last time, the majority of voters in the south will in effect be unrepresented. Adam 23:50, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Constituency boundaries

Does anyone know where I can find maps of the constituency boundaries? I have tried asking the Electoral Commission, but they seem to think the boundaries are a state secret and won't let me see them, even when I offered to come to their offices and copy them myself. I have seen older boundaries at several websites, but not the current ones. Any suggestions? Adam 08:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

are you looking for a boundaries information for this upcoming election? there is an information in Thai on Electoral Commission website. if you looking specific information and need help translating, let me know.--underexpose 09:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that reference, I don't think that table was at the ECT website the last time I looked. It appears to be a list of provinces, showing which amphoe within each province constitute each electoral district, am I right? So if I had maps of each province showing the names of all the amphoe in Thai, I could construct maps. (Except that in some places the amphoe are divided between more than one district.) I suppose I could do that, but it would be a lot of work. I am hoping someone can direct me to a website which has actual maps. Adam 09:34, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

yes, the information is provided in table format; you could overlay into a map by yourself, but as you said, it would be time consuming. if i found a graphical version of this information, i will let you know --underexpose 23:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Results

The ECT will be posting results (in Thai of course), here. If anyone knows of an English-language website posting results, please let me know. I can read the Thai alphabet, but verrrry slowly. Adam 01:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Drill-down to current unofficial results is here --Brianmc 19:47, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, they're giving a sort of skeleton result, no candidate names or vote totals for minor candidates. Plus they only have six provinces so far. Last time they gave full results, but of course The Nation doesn't want to give legitimacy to these elections. Adam 00:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Next question

Can anyone advise me if the ECT website has a table showing the number of registered voters in each constituency? Adam 09:54, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not yet. Their 2005 report on the elections does, but it is 985 page report so it will take them a while.

I should put this up as a different question, but I am new to Wiki and don't know how. You state there are 3,815,870 invalid ballots. Figures so far suggest this is wrong. You can see from this post that there are 3,495,539 invalid electoral/constitutency votes, but only invalid 1,765,264 party list votes.--BangkokPundit 16:20, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name of article

Now that there is going to be a second election this year, this article will need to be renamed Thailand legislative election, April 2006 and new article created Thailand legislative election, October 2006. Adam 23:09, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Done. —Nightst a llion (?) 12:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand... since it's now 2007 and there hasn't been the election yet, I suggest it be renamed back. 68.39.174.238 20:34, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]