With 92 per cent of votes counted, the Palang Pracharat party was first with 7.5 million votes, according to the country's Election Commission. Pheu Thai, which was the governing party ousted by the coup, was next with 7 million votes. The country likely faces several weeks of haggling among political parties before a potentially unstable coalition government is formed. But voters deserted the Democrat Party, the country's oldest political party, and its leader, former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, resigned. After the coup, political party gatherings were banned and pro-democracy activists and other dissenters were regularly arrested, interrogated and imprisoned.

Source: Stuff March 24, 2019 18:22 UTC