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1976 Thai general election
	All 279 seats in the House of Representatives; 140 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	43.99% ( 3.19pp)
Kukrit Pramoj; Social Action	Seni Pramoj; Democrat

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%.^[2] The Democrat Party emerged as the largest party, winning 114 of the 279 seats.

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	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

Valid votes		8,619,302	95.00
Invalid/blank votes		453,327	5.00
Total votes		9,072,629	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		20,623,430	43.99
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

^ Thailand Inter-Parliamentary Union
^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p284 ISBN 0-19-924959-8