Thailand's Election Commission (EC) said Monday that initial results showed the voter turnout in Sunday's election is over 72 percent.
According to the EC, some 72.1 percent of the 45 million eligible voters around Thailand have cast their votes in the country's first general election after a military coup ousted former Thaksin Shinawatra. The turnout has exceeded the EC's expectation.
The EC is ready to investigate 34 complaints of alleged electoral cheating dated during the election campaign days and Sunday's voting process.
The EC has received several hundreds of complaints, but only decided to set up panels to probe into 34 of them.
The tally of the votes, including those cast on Sunday, the official election date, and those cast during the advance and absentee voting on Dec. 15 and Dec. 16, is reportedly completed by early Monday morning.
Latest-updated initial results quoted by the Thai News Agency saw the People Power Party is shown leading the race with 224 MP seats in the 480-member House of Representatives, while the major rival the Democrat Party won 166 seats.
The EC earlier said it will announce the unofficial counting results at 10:30 a.m. (0330 GMT), but no announcement on the results has been made by the press time.
Source: Xinhua
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