Thai's voted Sunday in a General election

Final election results announced It is not the final outcome because the Election Commission must still investigate various charges of election fraud and might be forced to hold a by-election for red-carded candidates.

Election Commission Secretary General Suthipol Thaveechaikarn said about 32.08 million Thais, or 70.27 per cent of eligible voters, cast ballots.The parliament has a total of 480 seats in the Lower House:
People Power party (PPP) 232 seats
Democrat party 165
Chart Thai 37
Puea Pandin 25
Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana 9
Machimatipataya 7
Pracharaj 5

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Suan Dusit exit poll, the PPP won 256 of the 480 contested seats, with
the Democrats coming in second with 162 seats. But another poll
conducted by ABAC had the PPP with 202 seats and Democrats with 146,
and several of the medium-sized parties with more than 40 seats. Two
main rivals in Sunday's polls were the People Power Party (PPP), PPP is
headed by Samak Sundaravej, 72, a veteran Thai politician with a
right-wing past who has dubbed himself a "nominee" for Thaksin and
whose main platform has been to bring Thaksin Shinawatra back to
Thailand and the Democrat Party, the main opposition party Democrat
Party is led by Abhisit, 43, an Oxford-educated liberal politician who
has campaigned on his clean record .

Last year's coup which ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra some 45 million Thais are eligible to cast their ballots,Voting at 85,000 polling stations nationwide opened at 8 am and closed at 3 pm. today on Sunday, 23 December 2007, with unofficial results expected by midnight.Very few expect the country's third election in two years will solve the country's problems. People Power Party (PPP), a political outfit for supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra,was ousted in a
bloodless fifteen months ago.

Thaksin would return from self-exile in London said on Friday he could be back in February if voters handed the party a majority in the 480-seat parliament.
Political Analysts say the army and the royalist establishment, which
Thaksin supporters blame for the coup, will try to stymie a PPP-led
government by seeking to disqualify its candidates or tie up the party
in legal challenges.The army and its proxies are expected to push for a
coalition led by the Democrats, the main opposition during Thaksin's
five years in power.

Coup maker General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, now deputy prime minister in the interim government he appointed after the September 2006 coup, urged Thais to vote for "good people and those who are loyal" to the monarchy.

Rival groups, the pro and anti-Thaksin camps have said they will take to the streets if they observe the other side has unfairly gained an upper hand in Sunday's polls. Corruptible practice in Vote buying is rampant in Thai elections.

Nation newspaper reported on Sunday authorities were investigating nearly 160
cases of alleged vote fraud.Major street protests may surge another
military coup as intellectual propound. Political unstability and
uncertainty has worried the country's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who
inspired the soldiers,police to use their spiritual "strength" to pull
the nation out of its political mess. Last year's coup is the
eighteenth in seventy five years of on-off democracy failed to dilute
powers of Thaksin, an ethnic Chinese telecoms billionaire who won
landslides in 2001 and 2005 on the back of cheap healthcare and
handouts to farmers.