Parliamentary election in Cambodia 2018
The parliamentary election in Cambodia 2018 (election for the sixth Cambodian National Assembly ) was held on July 29, 2018. The number of people entitled to vote fell for the first time since 1993, by 13.39%. The elections resulted in a landslide victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party , which won 76.85% of the vote and all 125 seats. Possible this result was the dissolution of the main opposition party, the National Salvation Party of Cambodia (Cambodian National Rescue Party, CNRP) in November 2017. The CNRP had then called for a boycott of the elections by non-participation or duty of invalid ballots. 16.98% of those eligible to vote did not take part, and 8.55% inserted invalid ballot papers. Of the remaining 19 parties that took part in the election, the monarchist FUNCINPEC came in at 5.89%, the League for Democracy Party (LDP) at 4.86% and the Khmer Will Party (KWP) at 3, 35% of the valid votes. The other 16 parties received a total of 9.06%. The official figures differed only slightly from the provisional ones, to which no objections were raised within the statutory period of 72 hours. The allegedly high voter turnout of 83.02%, which for the ruling CPP is an important criterion for the legitimacy of the result, is controversial.
Results
Political party | be right | % | Seats | +/– * | ||||
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Cambodian People's Party (CPP) | 4,889,113 | 76.85 | 125 | +57 | ||||
FUNCINPEC | 374.510 | 5.89 | 0 | 0 | ||||
League for Democracy | 309.364 | 4.86 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Khmer wants party | 212,869 | 3.35 | 0 | New | ||||
Khmer National United Party | 99,377 | 1.56 | 0 | New | ||||
Grassroots Democratic Party | 70,567 | 1.11 | 0 | New | ||||
Beehive Social Democratic Party | 56.024 | 0.88 | 0 | New | ||||
Khmer Anti-Poverty Party | 55,298 | 0.87 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Khmer United Party | 48,785 | 0.77 | 0 | New | ||||
Cambodian Nationality Party | 45,370 | 0.71 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Khmer Republican Party | 41,631 | 0.65 | 0 | New | ||||
Cambodian Youth Party | 39,333 | 0.62 | 0 | New | ||||
Dharmacracy Party | 29,060 | 0.46 | 0 | New | ||||
Khmer Economic Development Party | 23,255 | 0.37 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Khmer Rise Party | 22.002 | 0.35 | 0 | New | ||||
Ponleu Thmey Party | 13,509 | 0.21 | 0 | New | ||||
Cambodian Indigenous Democracy Party | 10.197 | 0.16 | 0 | New | ||||
Our Motherland Party | 9,174 | 0.14 | 0 | New | ||||
Democratic Republican Party | 8,591 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Reaksmey Khemara Party | 4.212 | 0.07 | 0 | New | ||||
invalid / empty votes | 594,659 | - | - | - | ||||
Total | 6,956,900 | 100.0 | 125 | +2 | ||||
Eligible voters / turnout | 8,380,217 | 83.02 | - | - | ||||
Source: National Election Committee 55 seats of the dissolved National Salvation Party of Cambodia accounted |
* The information on changes in the number of seats relates to the situation before the dissolution of the CNRP and before its seats were split
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Rist: Hun Sen cemented the dictatorship. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 16th November 2017.
- ↑ a b Ben Sokhean: Final poll results confirm first single-party assembly. In: The Phnom Penh Post. August 16, 2018.
- ↑ a b The Preliminary Result of the Election of Members of the National Assembly in the 6 th Legislature 2018 National Election Committee, July 30, 2018th
- ↑ Manfred Rist: The suspiciously high voter turnout in Cambodia is supposed to give the regime more legitimacy. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 29th July 2018.