Cambodian general election, 1998

26 July 1998

All 122 seats to the National Assembly 62 seats needed for a majority

Turnout	93.7%
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Hun Sen	Norodom Ranariddh	Sam Rainsy
Party	CPP	FUNCINPEC	SRP
Leader's seat	Kandal	Kampong Cham	Kampong Cham
Last election	51 seats, 38.2%	58 seats, 45.5%	N/A
Seats before	51	58	0
Seats won	64	43	15
Seat change	13	15	15
Popular vote	2,030,790	1,554,405	699,665
Percentage	41.4%	31.7%	14.3%
Swing	3.1%	13.8%	14.3%

Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

Prime Minister before election

Ung Huot
FUNCINPEC

Elected Prime Minister

Hun Sen
CPP

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General elections were held in Cambodia on 26 July 1998. The result was a victory for the Cambodian People's Party, which won 64 of the 122 seats. Voter turnout was 93.7%.^[1]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Cambodian People's Party	2,030,790	41.4	64	+13
Funcinpec Party	1,554,405	31.7	43	–15
Sam Rainsy Party	699,665	14.3	15	New
Democratic Party	90,000	1.8	0	New
Cambodian National Sustaining Party	71,093	1.4	0	New
Liberal Democratic Party for National Salvation	46,424	0.9	0	New
Sonn Sann's Party	45,849	0.9	0	–10
Nationalist Party	37,308	0.8	0	New
Buddhist Liberal Party	32,959	0.7	0	New
Khmer Angkor Party	26,482	0.5	0	New
Cambodian Citizens' Party	23,713	0.5	0	New
Cambodian Unity Party	19,232	0.4	0	New
Republican Coalition Party	14,869	0.3	0	0
Liberal Democratic Party	14,088	0.3	0	0
Free Development Republican Party	13,780	0.3	0	0
Rally for National Solidarity	13,038	0.3	0	0
National Unification Party	11,089	0.2	0	New
National Restoration Party	10,451	0.2	0	New
Light of Freedom Party	10,027	0.2	0	New
Molinaka and Naktaorsou Khmer for Freedom	8,395	0.2	0	–1
Cambodian Free Independent Democracy Party	3,938	0.1	0	0
Neutral Democratic Party of Cambodia	3,869	0.1	0	0
Free Republican Party	1,654	0.0	0	0
Twelve other parties	119,372	2.4	0	–
Invalid/blank votes	155,189	–	–	–
Total	5,057,679	100	122	+2
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p70 ISBN 0-19-924959-8

Elections and referendums in Cambodia

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Presidential elections	1972

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