Cambodia announces final official result of general election

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 2 (Xinhua)

Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) Tuesday announced the final
official result of the4th mandate election of members of the National
Assembly.
NEC Secretary General Tep Nytha declared the official results from
province to province on national television and radio. According to the
final official results, the Cambodian People's Party(CPP) won 90 seats,
the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) 26, the Human Rights Party (HRP) 2, the
Funcinpec Party 2, and the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) 2 seats. Tep
Nytha said that the oldest Member of Parliament is Chea Sutfrom CPP, who
was born in 1928. Altogether 11 political parties had run for the July
27 election this year. A total of 8,125,529 voters were registered to
vote at 15,255 polling stations nationwide and 17,000 local and
international observers watched the polling process, according to NEC
figures.The voter turnout rate this year was only 75 percent, lower than
83 percent in 2003, 94 percent in 1998 and 90 percent in 1993,said NEC.