Thailand's constituencies divided for early next year's election

Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-19 20:23:43|Editor: huaxia
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BANGKOK, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Election Commission has finished the dividing of the country's constituencies for early next year's general election.

The polling agency had the division of a total of 350 constituencies throughout the country declared in the Royal Gazette on Wednesday.

Each constituency is to be represented by one MP to be voted into parliament in the nationwide election, tentatively scheduled for February 24, 2019.

The 350 MP seats will be at stake to win from each of the constituencies, plus a total of 150 others to be allocated from among the contesting parties on proportional party-list basis.

On demographic basis, the Thai capital Bangkok has 30 MP seats, the country's most, followed by 14 for Nakhon Ratchasima province, 10 for Ubon Ratchathani province, 10 for Khon Kaen province and nine for Chiang Mai province while several others have only one MP seat each.

One MP will represent some 189,000 people in the country of an estimated 66 million population. Enditem

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