2001 Thai general election

2001 Thai general election
6 January 2001
All 500 seats in the House of Representatives
251 seats needed for a majority
Registered42,875,036
Turnout69.43% ( 7.01pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Thaksin Shinawatra Chuan Leekpai Banharn Silpa-archa
Party Thai Rak Thai Democrat Chart Thai
Last election – 31.78%, 123 seats 9.88% 39 seats
Seats won 248 128 41
Seat change New 5 2
Constituency vote 9,616,204 6,721,220 2,223,320
 % and swing 35.68% (New) 24.94% (6.84pp) 8.25% (1.63pp)
Party-list vote 11,565,103 7,494,738 1,516,192
 % and swing 39.91% (New) 25.86% (New) 5.23% (New)
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh Korn Dabbaransi
Party New Aspiration National Development
Last election 29.14%, 125 seats 12.38%, 52 seats
Seats won 36 29
Seat change 89 23
Constituency vote 2,433,892 2,307,281
 % and swing 9.03% (20.11pp) 8.56% (3.82pp)
Party-list vote 1,996,227 1,752,981
 % and swing 6.89% (New) 6.05% (New)
Parties that won a majority of the seats in each province
  •   Thai Rak Thai
  •   Democrat
  •   Chart Thai
  •   New Aspiration
  •   National Development
  •   No majority
Prime Minister before election

Chuan Leekpai
Democrat

 Prime Minister-designate

Thaksin Shinawatra
Thai Rak Thai

General elections were held in Thailand on 6 January 2001 to elect the 500 seats of the House of Representatives. In accordance with the recently enacted 1997 constitution, the House of Representatives was composed of 400 members elected from single-member constituencies and 100 elected from national party lists on a proportional basis.

The Thai Rak Thai party co-founded and led by Thaksin Shinawatra received the most votes and won 248 of the 500 seats on a populist platform of economic growth and anti-corruption. Following the elections, it gained a parliamentary majority by merging with the New Aspiration Party, giving it 286 seats. A coalition government was formed with the Thai Nation Party. The Democrat Party, which had run on a platform supporting neoliberal, IMF-backed economic reforms, went into the opposition with the National Development Party.

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