and shall announce the result of the election expeditiously; the announcement shall be not later than sixty days from the date of election. Such announcement of the result shall not prejudice the duties and powers of the Election Commission to investigate, deliberate or decide on a case where there are reasonable grounds to believe that wrongdoing has been committed in the election, or that the election was not honestly and justly conducted, whether or not the results of the election have been announced.
Section 86. The prescription of the number of Members of the House of Representatives which each Changwat shall have, and the division of constituency shall be in accordance with the following procedure:
- (1) the total number of inhabitants throughout the country as evidenced in the census last announced in the year prior to the year of election, averaged by the number of three hundred and fifty Members of the House of Representatives shall be deemed the number of inhabitants per one member;
- (2) any Changwat with inhabitants below the number of inhabitants per one member under (1) shall have one Member of the House of Representatives, and the area of that Changwat shall be regarded as the constituency;
- (3) any Changwat with more inhabitants than the number of inhabitants per one member shall have one additional Member of the House of Representatives for every such number of inhabitants which represents the number of inhabitants per one member;
- (4) upon obtaining the number of Members of the House of Representatives of each Changwat under (2) and (3), if the number of Members of the House of Representatives is still fewer than three hundred and fifty, any Changwat which has the largest fraction remaining from the calculation under (3) shall have one additional Member of the House of Representatives, and the addition of the Members of the House of Representatives in accordance with such procedure shall be made to other Changwats in descending order of fractions remaining from the calculation under (3) until the number of three hundred and fifty is obtained;
- (5) in a Changwat where the number of Members of the House of Representatives is more than one, such Changwat shall be divided into constituencies in the number equal to the number of Members of the House of Representatives as may be elected therein; in the division of constituencies, the boundary of each constituency shall be adjoining, and the number of inhabitants in each constituency must be closely apportioned.
Section 87. A candidate in an election of a Member of the House of Representatives on a constituency basis, must be a person nominated by a political party of which he or she is a member, and shall not stand for election in more than one constituency.
