Exit polls showed the pro-Thaksin People Power Party (PPP) is
leading the race in the first post- coup general election in
Thailand as the voting closed at 3 p.m. (0800GMT) Sunday.
An exit poll by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, one of the two
leading survey institutions titled by the Election Commission to
conduct the exit polls for Sunday's election, has shown the PPP got
256 seats in the 480-member House of Representatives in its initial
results as of 3 p.m., the official closing time for Sunday 's
voting.
The PPP's major rival in the race, the Democrat Party, followed
with 162 seats, the exit poll showed.
(Xinhua News Agency December 23, 2007)
