An independent candidate is leading the record pack of 31 running in Bangkok’s Governor election. In Bangkok’s first gubernatorial election in nine years, Chadchart Sittipunt is favoured by 38.8% of 1,362 eligible voters polled. The poll was conducted from April 5-7.
The runner up at the moment is yet another independent candidate, Aswin Kwanmuang, with 10.1% of respondents saying they prefer him. At third place, a Democrat Party candidate is favoured by 6.8% of respondents, and a Move Forward Party candidate by 6%. All other candidates got smaller percentages of respondents who favoured them. 26.6% of respondents are still undecided about which candidate they prefer, while 2.9% say they would tick “no vote”. 2% even say they won’t go to the polls.
Bangkok’s upcoming gubernatorial election will be held on May 22. A candidate from Thailand’s Democrat party won the last election in 2013.
Meanwhile, in an opinion poll last month on who Thais want as their next PM, slightly more respondents favoured Move Foward Party candidate Pita Limjaroenrat over current PM Prayut Chan-o-cha. 13.4% of respondents preferred 41 year old Pita, while 12.7% preferred Prayut. This was out of a poll surveying 2,020 Thais aged 18 and over of education levels and occupations throughout the country.
This means that Pita is now the country’s most preferred candidate, followed by Prayut, then Paethongtan Shinawatra of the Pheu Thai Party, and then Khunying Sudarat, leader of the Thai Srang Thai Party. However, the largest percentage of Thais, 27.6%, said they were “yet to see anybody suitable for the post of Thai PM”.
SOURCE: Bangkok Post