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| party1 = [[Chart Pattana Party|CPP]]
| party1 = [[Chart Pattana Party|CPP]]
| alliance1 =
| alliance1 =
| popular_vote1 = '''18,179,986'''
| popular_vote1 = '''17,579,986'''
| percentage1 = '''52.3%'''
| percentage1 = '''50.57%'''
| image2 = [[File:Chadchart Sittipunt October 2023 (cropped).jpg|160x160px]]
| image2 = [[File:Chadchart Sittipunt October 2023 (cropped).jpg|160x160px]]
| candidate2 =[[Kowit Thammarojphinij]]
| candidate2 =[[Kowit Thammarojphinij]]
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| party2 = [[People's Democrat Party|PDP]]
| party2 = [[People's Democrat Party|PDP]]
| alliance2 =  
| alliance2 =  
| popular_vote2 = 16,024,806
| popular_vote2 = 16,624,806
| percentage2 = 46.1%
| percentage2 = 47.83%
| title = President
| title = [[President of Kaona|President]]
| before_election = [[Lursakdi Sonakul]]
| before_election = [[Lursakdi Sonakul]]
| before_party =  [[People's Democrat Party|PDP]]
| before_party =  [[People's Democrat Party|PDP]]
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The '''11<sup>th</sup> general election in [[Kaona]]''' was be held on the 30<sup>th</sup> December 2021 to elect both the [[President of Kaona|president]] and the National Assembly with a second round being held on the 14<sup>th</sup> January. Under the Kaonese constitution, the president is restricted to two four-year terms in office meaning the incumbent president [[Lursakdi Sonakul]] was ineligible to run for a third term.  
The '''12<sup>th</sup> presidential election in [[Kaona]]''' was be held on the 30<sup>th</sup> December 2021 to elect both the [[President of Kaona|president]] with a second round being held on the 14<sup>th</sup> January. Under the Kaonese constitution, the president is restricted to two four-year terms in office meaning the incumbent president [[Lursakdi Sonakul]] was ineligible to run for a third term. Opposition candidate and former premier [[Kongsampong Khumpai]] of the centre-right [[Chart Pattana Party]] won the presidential elections beating the candidate from the incumbent [[People's Democrat Party]] [[Kowit Thammarojphinij]].  


Former premier [[Kongsampong Khumpai]] of the centre-right [[Chart Pattana Party]] won the presidential elections with the CPP emerging as the largest party in parliament. The PDP which had won the presidency in the last two elections and maintained a majority in parliament lost support both to the CPP and the far-left Socialist Masses Party.  
Due to the unpopularity of Sonakul's administration Khumpai was the frontrunner going into the election being unanimously nominated by his party. The PDP in contrast saw an unusually divisive primary after the Governor of Phuko Thammarojphinij entered the race. Thammarojphinij was widely seen as an outsider with the finance minister Prid Songprawati being seen to be promoted by the party establishment with Thammarojphinij winning his party's nomination after gaining widespread grassroots support. Outside the two main parties the [[Socialist Masses Party]] nominated Chavarat Saikwan whilst businessman Panyarachun Thanasukolwit was nominated by the [[People's Power Party]].
 
Initially Khumpai had a wide lead in polling as the PDP saw its support bleed to both Saikwan and Tanasukolwit; however Thammarojphinij soon was seen to run a successful left-wing campaign rising in the polls. In the first round Thammarojphinij narrowly beat Khumpai, but suffered a drop in support after floods in Phuko province saw his response widely criticised. Khumpai would narrowly win the election being the second time that the CPP won the presidency without [[Chakthip Khaopa]] being on the ballot.  
==Electoral process==
==Electoral process==
Since the 1981 presidential election presidents in Kaona are elected in a two-round system in which if a candidate does not achieve 50%+ of the vote in the first round the candidates with the two highest percentage of the vote will enter a second round. President's can serve a maximum of  two four year terms, meaning incumbent president [[Lursakdi Sonakul]] is not eligible for re-election.  
Since the 1981 presidential election presidents in Kaona are elected in a two-round system in which if a candidate does not achieve 50%+ of the vote in the first round the candidates with the two highest percentage of the vote will enter a second round. President's can serve a maximum of  two four year terms, meaning incumbent president [[Lursakdi Sonakul]] is not eligible for re-election.  
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===Parliamentary===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:left
|-
!colspan=3|Party
!Ideology
!Outgoing<br>seats
!In government
|-
| style="background:#007500" |
| [[File:PDP Kaona logo.png|100px]]
| [[People's Democrat Party]]
| {{wp|Left-wing nationalism}}, {{wp|Left-wing populism}}
| {{Composition bar|137|240|hex=#007500}}
|{{Y}}
|-
| style="background:#00BBFF" |
| [[File:CPP logo.png|100px]]
| [[Chart Pattana Party]]
| {{wp|Conservatism}}, {{wp|Economic liberalism}}
| {{Composition bar|46|240|hex=#00BBFF}}
|{{N}}
|-
| style="background:#11305F" |
| [[File:PPP logo.png|70px]]
| [[People's Power Party]]
| [[Macakkanism|Political Macakkanism]], {{wp|Religious nationalism}}
| {{Composition bar|18|240|hex=#11305F}}
|{{N}}
|-
| style="background:#D4001F" |
| [[File:SMP logo.png|100px]]
| [[Socialist Masses Party]]
| {{wp|Democratic socialism}}, {{wp|Left-wing populism}}
| {{Composition bar|12|240|hex=#D4001F}}
|{{N}}
|-
| style="background:#FFD700" |
| [[File:Aspiration Party logo.png|100px]]
| [[Aspiration Party]]
| {{wp|Economic liberalism}}, {{wp|Liberal conservatism}}
| {{Composition bar|7|240|hex=#FFD700}}
|{{N}}
|}


==Campaign==
==Campaign==
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|-  
|-  
|style=background-color:#00BBFF; |
|style=background-color:#00BBFF; |
|align=left|[[Kongsampong Khumpai]]||align=left|[[Chart Pattana Party]]||'''12,653,052'''||'''38.60%'''||'''18,179,986'''||52.3%
|align=left|[[Kongsampong Khumpai]]||align=left|[[Chart Pattana Party]]||'''11,899,824'''||'''36.30%'''||'''17,579,986'''||50.57%
|-
|-
|style=background-color:#007500; |
|style=background-color:#007500; |
|align=left|[[Kowit Thammarojphinij]]||align=left|[[People's Democrat Party]]||'''11,899,824'''||'''36.30%'''||16,024,806||46.1%
|align=left|[[Kowit Thammarojphinij]]||align=left|[[People's Democrat Party]]||'''12,653,052'''||'''38.60%'''||16,624,806||47.83%
|-
|-
|style=background-color:#D4001F |
|style=background-color:#D4001F |
|align=left|[[Chavarat Saikwan]]||align=left|[[Socialist Masses Party]]||3,999,267||12.2%||colspan="2" rowspan="2" ||
|align=left|[[Chavarat Saikwan]]||align=left|[[Socialist Masses Party]]||3,999,267||12.2%||
|-
|-
|style=background-color:#11305F; |
|style=background-color:#11305F; |
|align=left|[[Sawai Yubamrung]]||align=left|[[People's Power Party]]||3,081,402||9.4%||
|align=left|[[Panyarachun Thanasukolwit]]||align=left|[[People's Power Party]]||3,081,402||9.4%||
|-
|-
|colspan=3 align=left|Blank votes||1,147,330||3.5%||556,175||1.6%
|colspan=3 align=left|Blank votes||1,147,330||3.5%||556,175||1.6%
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|-
|-
|colspan=3 align=left|Registered voters/turnout||56,093,221||58.44%||56,093,221||61.97%
|colspan=3 align=left|Registered voters/turnout||56,093,221||58.44%||56,093,221||61.97%
|}
===Parliamentary===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
|colspan=8|[[File:2012 Kaona.svg|center|300px]]
|-
!colspan=2 rowspan="2" style="width:60px;"|Party
!colspan=4|Votes
!colspan=3|Seats
!rowspan="2" style="width:60px;"|±
|-
! style="width:75px;"| Geographical Constituencies
! style="width:45px;"| %
! style="width:45px;"| Proportional Constituencies
! style="width:75px;"| %
! style="width:75px;"| Geographical Constituencies
! style="width:45px;"| Proportional Constituencies
! style="width:45px;"| Total
|-
|style="background:#00BBFF"| ||align=left|[[Chart Pattana Party]]||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||87||{{increase}}41
|-
|style="background:#007500"| ||align=left|[[People's Democrat Party]]||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||73||{{decrease}}64
|-
|style="background:#D4001F"| ||align=left|[[Socialist Masses Party]]||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||24||{{increase}}12
|-
|style="background:#11305F| ||align=left|[[People's Power Party]]||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||20||{{increase}}2
|-
|style="background:#E42D92"| ||align=left|[[Phak Mahachon]]||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||12||{{increase}}12
|-
|style="background:#FFD700"| ||align=left|[[Aspiration Party]]||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||2||{{decrease}}5
|-
|style="background:#DDDDDD"| ||align=left|{{wp|independent (politics)|Independents}}||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||22||{{increase}}2
|-
|style="background:#ffffff"| ||align=left|Others||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||0||-
|-
|align=left colspan=2|Invalid/blank votes||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||-||-
|-
|align=left colspan=2|'''Total'''||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||-||-
|-
|align=left colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||tba||-||-
|}
|}


==Analysis==
==Analysis==
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Latest revision as of 02:14, 8 December 2024

Kaonese presidential election, 2021-22
← 2017-18 30 December 2021 (first round)
14 January 2022 (second round)		 2025-26 →
  Thongloun Sisoulith (19-05-2016).jpg Chadchart Sittipunt October 2023 (cropped).jpg
Candidate Kongsampong Khumpai Kowit Thammarojphinij
Party CPP PDP
Popular vote 17,579,986 16,624,806
Percentage 50.57% 47.83%
President before election

Lursakdi Sonakul
PDP

Elected President

Kongsampong Khumpai
CPP

The 12th presidential election in Kaona was be held on the 30th December 2021 to elect both the president with a second round being held on the 14th January. Under the Kaonese constitution, the president is restricted to two four-year terms in office meaning the incumbent president Lursakdi Sonakul was ineligible to run for a third term. Opposition candidate and former premier Kongsampong Khumpai of the centre-right Chart Pattana Party won the presidential elections beating the candidate from the incumbent People's Democrat Party Kowit Thammarojphinij.

Due to the unpopularity of Sonakul's administration Khumpai was the frontrunner going into the election being unanimously nominated by his party. The PDP in contrast saw an unusually divisive primary after the Governor of Phuko Thammarojphinij entered the race. Thammarojphinij was widely seen as an outsider with the finance minister Prid Songprawati being seen to be promoted by the party establishment with Thammarojphinij winning his party's nomination after gaining widespread grassroots support. Outside the two main parties the Socialist Masses Party nominated Chavarat Saikwan whilst businessman Panyarachun Thanasukolwit was nominated by the People's Power Party.

Initially Khumpai had a wide lead in polling as the PDP saw its support bleed to both Saikwan and Tanasukolwit; however Thammarojphinij soon was seen to run a successful left-wing campaign rising in the polls. In the first round Thammarojphinij narrowly beat Khumpai, but suffered a drop in support after floods in Phuko province saw his response widely criticised. Khumpai would narrowly win the election being the second time that the CPP won the presidency without Chakthip Khaopa being on the ballot.

Electoral process

Since the 1981 presidential election presidents in Kaona are elected in a two-round system in which if a candidate does not achieve 50%+ of the vote in the first round the candidates with the two highest percentage of the vote will enter a second round. President's can serve a maximum of two four year terms, meaning incumbent president Lursakdi Sonakul is not eligible for re-election.

To registrar to become a candidate one has to be a Kaonese citizen, have had permanent residency in Kaona in the past ten years, be over the age of 35 and either has collected 50,000 voters' signatures or be the official candidate of a political party with 5% representation in the National Assembly. People with dual citizenship are banned from running for public office.

Background

Candidates

Presidential

Candidate name and age
political party 		Political office(s) Details
Kowit Thammarojphinij (59)
PDP Kaona logo.png
People's Democrat Party 		Chadchart Sittipunt October 2023 (cropped).jpg Governor of Phuko Province
(2018-present) 		tba.
Kongsampong Khumpai (63)
CPP logo.png
Chart Pattana Party 		Thongloun Sisoulith (19-05-2016).jpg Prime Minister
(2010-2014)
Minister of Finance
(1996-2004; 2006-2010) 		tba.
Chavarat Saikwan (43)
SMP logo.png
Socialist Masses Party 		Piyabutr Saengkanokkul (cropped).jpg Member of the National Assembly
(2014-present) 		tba.
Panyarachun Thanasukolwit (56)
PPP logo.png
People's Power Party 		Anutin Charnvirakul - 2023 (52638148766) (cropped).jpg Member of the National Assembly
(2012-present) 		tba.


Campaign

Results

Presidential

Candidate Party First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Kongsampong Khumpai Chart Pattana Party 11,899,824 36.30% 17,579,986 50.57%
Kowit Thammarojphinij People's Democrat Party 12,653,052 38.60% 16,624,806 47.83%
Chavarat Saikwan Socialist Masses Party 3,999,267 12.2%
Panyarachun Thanasukolwit People's Power Party 3,081,402 9.4%
Blank votes 1,147,330 3.5% 556,175 1.6%
Total 32,780,878 - 34,760,969 -
Registered voters/turnout 56,093,221 58.44% 56,093,221 61.97%

Analysis

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