It is not surprise to some political analysis when primary election results show that Cambodian’ s People Party (CPP) wins the election yesterday on 27 July 2008. Yesterday, at almost poll station, the ballot counting showed that the CPP is a leading party, the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) is the second. It is not sure yet which political party will be the third and the fourth among all 11 competitive political parties.

Before the election day, the CPP officials predicted that this party will win 83 seats of 123 seats of the national assembly. The SRP is predicted to get around 40 to 50 seats. Last night at around 10pm, I got an sms from my friend regarding this primary election results. The sms read that CPP 88, SR 22, HR 7, Ranaridh 5, Fun 1 (this is just temporary). It means that the CPP wins 88 seats, the SRP gets 22 seats, the Human Rights Party (HRP) gets 7 seats, the Norodom Ranaridh Party gets 5 seats, and the Funcinpec gets 1 seat.

Last night, the primary results from National Election Committee as shown by report of National Television, showed that the CPP wins election of around 60 to 70% as average. The SRP gets voters’ support of around 13% to 23%. However, the SRP leader claims that it may get more than 40 seats.

However, every thing is not clear yet about the number of seats each political party will actually get. Next month is the official result from NEC and then the government will be formed by CPP. But what is important to note is demonstration against the election. The SRP is going to demonstrate. Some other political parties will also continue the election complaints.