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Early general elections were held in Thailand on 4 April 1976 after the House of Representatives had been dissolved prematurely on 12 January.[1] A total of 2,350 candidates representing 39 parties contested the election, although voter turnout was only 44.0%.[2] The result was a victory for the Democrat Party, which won 114 of the 279 seats.
Results[edit]
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| Democrat Party | 4,745,990 | 25.31 | 114 | +42 |
| Thai Nation Party | 3,280,134 | 17.49 | 56 | +28 |
| Social Action Party | 3,272,170 | 17.45 | 45 | +27 |
| Social Justice Party | 1,725,568 | 9.20 | 28 | –17 |
| New Force Party | 1,276,208 | 6.81 | 3 | –9 |
| People's Force | 746,985 | 3.98 | 3 | +1 |
| Social Agrarian Party | 672,259 | 3.59 | 9 | –10 |
| Social Nationalist Party | 642,078 | 3.42 | 8 | –8 |
| Socialist Party of Thailand | 357,385 | 1.91 | 2 | –13 |
| Dharmacracy Party | 264,526 | 1.41 | 1 | New |
| Thai Protection Party | 223,048 | 1.19 | 1 | New |
| United Democratic Front | 196,998 | 1.05 | 1 | New |
| Socialist Front | 174,432 | 0.93 | 1 | –9 |
| Labour Party | 161,031 | 0.86 | 1 | 0 |
| Social Thai Party | 125,037 | 0.67 | 1 | New |
| People's Peaceful Party | 104,084 | 0.56 | 0 | –8 |
| Provincial Development Party | 100,162 | 0.53 | 2 | +1 |
| Thai Party | 98,487 | 0.53 | 0 | –4 |
| Free Force | 95,056 | 0.51 | 0 | New |
| National Reconstruction | 79,894 | 0.43 | 0 | –3 |
| New Siam Party | 72,664 | 0.39 | 1 | New |
| Democracy | 59,472 | 0.32 | 1 | –1 |
| Social Progress Party | 25,028 | 0.13 | 1 | New |
| Agriculturalist Party | 24,987 | 0.13 | 0 | –1 |
| People Party | 11,919 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 other parties | 215,209 | 1.15 | 0 | – |
| Total | 18,750,811 | 100.00 | 279 | +10 |
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| Valid votes | 8,619,302 | 95.00 | |
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| Invalid/blank votes | 453,327 | 5.00 | |
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| Total votes | 9,072,629 | 100.00 | |
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| Registered voters/turnout | 20,623,430 | 43.99 | |
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| Source: Nohlen et al. |
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