Thai Rak Thai to sweep 374 seats

Published on February 7, 2005

The latest result showed that Thai Rak Thai won 307 constituencies and 67 party-list cadidates.

Democrat gained 69 parliamentary seats and 25 party-list cadidates. Chat Thai won18 constituencies and 8 party-list cadidates. And Mahachon gained only 1 seat in the Ubon Ratchathani.

In contrast, Thai Rak Thai was dumped in three unrest southern provinces. The Wadah faction was disapointed.

Voters in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat crowded the polling stations on Sunday and voted for Democrat Party. It won 4 parliamentary seats in Pattani, 3 in Yala and 3 in Narathiwat, and left 1 seat for Chat Thai party in Narathiwat but none for Wadah faction of Thai Rak Thai.

Areepen Utrasin, the Wadah faction leader said she knew it would turn out to be like this.

"Mukh, Wannoh and I first knew that it's a tough fighting. This would never be easy for us. But we never consider that this is our loss. The Wadah faction was set up to help the people in southern Thailand," said Areepen.

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