Siamese general election, 1948

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General elections were held in Siam on 29 January 1948. At the time there were no political parties,^[1] so all candidates ran as independents. Voter turnout was 29.5%.^[2]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Independents		100
Invalid/blank votes		–	–
Total	2,117,464	100
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p284 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
↑ Nohlen et al., p278

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