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การได้มาซึ่งสมาชิกสภาผู้แทนราษฎร
Abstract
As “self-government of the people”, representatives of the people
in a democracy should be elected by the people. That is why, especially
in a “representative democracy”, elections have become one of the
most important elements of modern democracy. And how the people
as sovereign of a democratic state elect their representatives and how to
determine who is elected is a matter of the “electoral system”.
Before the constitution of 1997, Thailand knew of only one electoral
system, namely simple majority system. At the beginning, it was a single
constituency majority system or “First-Past-The-Post” (FPTP). The electoral
system was later changed to multi-member constituency and then to
three-member constituency system. The 1997 Constitution added the
list proportional representation system (list PR) to the electoral system
of Thailand by mixing the PR system with FPTP in the form of a “parallel
