By NNN-Bernama,
Phnom Penh : The major ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won around 58.11 percent of the votes in the fourth general election, according to the preliminary official balloting results declared by the National Election Committee (NEC) here Saturday.
In the general election which was held on July 4, 3.4 million voters casts their votes for CPP.
The total voters voted in the general election records a sum of 6.01 million.
CPP won 90 seats out of 123 seats at the National Assembly (NA) and regarded this victory as a landslide winning of the nationwide political showdown, China’s Xinhua news agency reported Satrurday quoting the NEC as saying here.
CPP’s winning rate during the past three general elections respectively stood at 39.63 percent in 1993, 41.67 percent in 1998 and 47.30 percent in 2003, said NEC.
Trailing CPP in this year’s election was the major opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) with 1,316,714 votes, or 21.90 percent of all.
Minor opposition Human Rights Party (HRP) and Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) respectively won 397,816 and 337,943 votes, or 6.61 percent and 5.62 percent of all.
The co-ruling Funcinpec Party scored 303,764 votes, or 5.05 percent of all.
Altogether 11 political parties had run for the election this year.
The voter turnout rate this year was only 75 percent, lower than 83 percent in 2003, 94 percent in 1998 and 90 percent in 1993, said NEC.
Final official results and allocation of the NA seats can be known at the end of this month and the new government will be established in September.