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The main Thai political parties were vying for their position Monday in the confusion surrounding the winner of the poll that took place last weekend as part of a new complicated voting system comprising elements of proportional representation.
The Electoral Commission postponed its announcement on the results from Sunday evening to Monday morning. It was then postponed to the afternoon, due to technical problems.
He then announced that he would only reveal the names of the winners of the 350 directly elected constituency seats, after the suspension of the 150 seats available on the list.
The names of the winners were uploaded to his website at 4:00 pm local time (09:00 GMT), showing that Pheu Thai had won 138 seats and Palang Pracharat, the army-backed party created to campaign for the head of government military Prayuth Chan-ocha, had won 96 seats.
Future Forward, a party created barely a year ago by billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, a giant of car spare parts, came in third with 29 seats.
Scott Heidler of Al Jazeera reports from Bangkok.
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