Cambodian general election, 1998

Cambodian general election, 1998
Cambodia
26 July 1998

All 122 seats to the National Assembly
62 seats needed for a majority
Registered 5,395,595
Turnout 5,057,679 (93.7%)
Increase 4.2%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Hun Sen Norodom Ranariddh Sam Rainsy
Party CPP FUNCINPEC SRP
Leader since 14 January 1985 February 1992 June 1995
Leader's seat Kandal Kampong Cham Kampong Cham
Last election 51 seats, 38.2% 58 seats, 45.5% N/A
Seats before 51 58 0
Seats won 64 43 15
Seat change Increase 13 Decrease 15 Increase 15
Popular vote 2,030,790 1,554,405 699,665
Percentage 41.4% 31.7% 14.3%
Swing Increase 3.1% Decrease 13.8% Increase 14.3%

Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
Grey denotes provinces uncontested.

Prime Minister before election

Ung Huot
FUNCINPEC

Elected Prime Minister

Hun Sen
CPP

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General elections were held in Cambodia on 26 July 1998. The result was a victory for the Cambodian People's Party, which won 64 of the 122 seats. Voter turnout was 93.7%.[1]

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Cambodian People's Party2,030,79041.464+13
Funcinpec Party1,554,40531.743–15
Sam Rainsy Party699,66514.315New
Democratic Party90,0001.80New
Cambodian National Sustaining Party71,0931.40New
Liberal Democratic Party for National Salvation46,4240.90New
Sonn Sann's Party45,8490.90–10
Nationalist Party37,3080.80New
Buddhist Liberal Party32,9590.70New
Khmer Angkor Party26,4820.50New
Cambodian Citizens' Party23,7130.50New
Cambodian Unity Party19,2320.40New
Republican Coalition Party14,8690.300
Liberal Democratic Party14,0880.300
Free Development Republican Party13,7800.300
Rally for National Solidarity13,0380.300
National Unification Party11,0890.20New
National Restoration Party10,4510.20New
Light of Freedom Party10,0270.20New
Molinaka and Naktaorsou Khmer for Freedom8,3950.20–1
Cambodian Free Independent Democracy Party3,9380.100
Neutral Democratic Party of Cambodia3,8690.100
Free Republican Party1,6540.000
Twelve other parties119,3722.40
Invalid/blank votes155,189
Total5,057,679100122+2
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p70 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
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