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General elections were held in Thailand on 2 July 1995. The result was a victory for the Thai Nation Party, which won 92 of the 391 seats. Voter turnout was 62.0%.^[1] The prevalence of vote buying in this election was considered one of the highest to date.^[2]

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Thai Nation Party	12,630,074	22.83	92	+15
	Democrat Party	12,325,423	22.28	86	+7
	New Aspiration Party	6,806,621	12.30	57	+6
	National Development Party	6,612,504	11.95	53	–7
	Palang Dharma Party	4,209,135	7.61	23	–24
	Leading Thai Party [th]	3,474,142	6.28	18	New
	Thai Citizen Party	2,476,218	4.48	18	+15
	Social Action Party	2,201,218	3.98	22	0
	Seritham Party [th]	1,716,786	3.10	11	+3
	Solidarity Party	1,361,719	2.46	8	0
	Mass Party	1,309,381	2.37	3	–1
	Safeguard Thai Party	195,835	0.35	0	New
Total		55,319,056	100.00	391	+31
Valid votes		22,784,030	97.11
Invalid/blank votes		678,716	2.89
Total votes		23,462,746	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		37,817,983	62.04
Source: Nohlen et al.

Further reading

• William A. Callahan; Duncan McCargo (1996). "Vote-Buying in Thailand's Northeast: The July 1995 General Election". Asian Survey. 36 (4): 376–392. doi:10.2307/2645405. JSTOR 2645405.
• David Murray (1996). "The 1995 National Election in Thailand". Asian Survey. 36: 361–375. doi:10.2307/2645404. JSTOR 2645404.

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