Candidates of the 2026 Thai general election

The 2026 Thai general election will be held on 8 February to elect 500 seats of the House of Representatives – 400 will be elected from constituency seats and 100 from a party-list. Registration for candidates and political parties seeking to contest seats was open from 27 to 31 December 2025. By the end of the period, 57 parties were registered. In total, 5,096 individuals registered as candidates with 3,526 seeking to contest constituency seats and 1,570 seeking to contest party-list seats. 93 politicians from 47 parties were also nominated as candidates for prime minister. Candidates were allowed to nominate up to three candidates for prime minister and the prime minister can only be elected if they were nominated. Bangkok Constituency 30 has the highest number of candidates contesting the seat at 19.

Prime ministerial candidates

By major parties

This is a list of candidates nominated for prime minister by major parties (parties who held a significant number of seats in the House of Representatives by the time it was dissolved on 12 December 2025).

Party Lead candidateOther candidatesBhumjaithai PartyAnutin CharnvirakulDemocrat PartyAbhisit VejjajivaKorn ChatikavanijKarndee LeopairoteKla Tham PartyThamanat PrompowPalang Pracharath PartyTrinuch ThienthongPeople's PartyNatthaphong RuengpanyawutSirikanya TansakunPheu Thai PartyYodchanan WongsawatJulapun AmornvivatSuriya JuangroongruangkitPrachachat PartyTawee SodsongWan Muhamad Noor MathaThai Sang Thai PartySudarat KeyuraphanUnited Thai Nation PartyPirapan Salirathavibhaga

By minor parties This is a list of candidates nominated for Prime Minister by minor parties (parties who either held no seats in the House of Representatives when it was dissolved or who held only a few seats). Party Lead candidateOther candidatesEconomic PartyFair PartyPunyavee TemcharoenMonwalee PanthonothaiFusion PartyKittipat LiengprasertKochaporn WerojnKiatphum SiriphanChanchai TophrueksaMovement PartyKannavee SuebsangNation Building Labour PartyManas KosolWasan PhanngoenNew Alternative PartyRachen TrakunwiangMongkolkit SuksintharanonSitthisak PhattanachaiNew Democracy PartySuratin PichanNew Opportunity PartyJatuporn BuruspatNew PartySurasit MatchadetSongtrakun SomkhamNawinda SawatdechdeeParty of Thai CountiesBancha DejcharoensirikulAttasit ChuensanguanThanongsak SiriratPeople's Power PartyThanaporn VaithayanuvatChalermphon UttarathAphiwitch ThipratPhue Cheevit Mai PartyThongprasert ChantharamphonPichcha KhamsuwannPhimmaithong SakkhipatphokinRak Chart PartyChaiwut ThanakamanusornChakraphong ChinduangChaiyong RattanawanChiamsak ChansenaThai Citizen PartyKanisorn SommaluanNarong PhrueksarungreungThunrawin PhongkamlanonThai Kao Mai PartySuchatvee SuwansawatKalaya SophonpanichThai Liberal PartySereepisuth TemeeyavesThai Morality PartySupisarn PakdeenarunathKitikon WichairueangthamWisarut KrutkaivanThai Pakdee PartyWarong DetkitvikromEkasit KunanantakulThai Population PartyBoonyong ChansangThai Progress PartyWatcharapol ButsomkornSit SitthimongkhonKusumalawati SirikomutThai Ruam Palang PartyWasawat PuangphonsriWachira SupharamThe Nation Thai's People Volunteer PartyJiradech PrommanaWetchasak DuanguraiVision Mai PartyThongrob DanampaiPichet SathirachawalChotananpricha Sapphiran

Constituency candidates In the registration period, 3,526 people registered as candidates to contest the 400 available constituency seats. In Nakhon Nayok province, Pheu Thai failed to register their candidates in time. The party had won both constituencies in the province in 2023. Just prior to the election, 18 constituency candidates were disqualified by the Electoral Commission and any votes towards them would be counted as invalid. Six were from Kla Tham, three from Palang Pracharath, two each from the Movement Party and Pheu Thai, and one each from Thai Sang Thai, Democrat, People's, Puea Ban Muang and Thai Kao Mai parties.

This list is a summary of the number of constituency candidates nominated by some of the major parties in each of Thailand's 76 provinces and Bangkok.

Province Seats PP BJT PT DEM UTN KT PPRP TST PCC OtherTotal:Amnat Charoen22222112517Ang Thong222221110Bangkok333333333333332333249503Bueng Kan33333331827Buriram1010101010101022688Chachoengsao4444441526Chai Nat222222212Chaiyaphum777777621957Chanthaburi33333131724Chiang Mai1010101010710644107Chiang Rai776777621052Chonburi101010101052953193Chumphon3333311620Kalasin666666652667Kamphaeng Phet44444143630Kanchanaburi555552221339Khon Kaen111111111199413097Krabi3333312419Lampang444442431632Lamphun22222221720Loei44444243530Lopburi444444342837Mae Hong Son22122221 12Maha Sarakham666665642160Kalasin666666652667Mukdahan22222122619Nakhon Nayok2222121 1 11Nakhon Pathom666662611952Nakhon Phanom4444444121340Nakhon Ratchasima16161616166141048142Nakhon Sawan66666611243Nakhon Si Thammarat999997632375Nan33333333829Narathiwat545551525436Nong Bua Lamphu3333333211132Nong Khai3333312520Nonthaburi888874842168Pathum Thani888888581972Pattani555551515133Phang Nga222222111Phatthalung3333313824Phayao3333313117Phetchabun666661631650Phetchaburi333331215Phichit33333331322Phitsanulok55555152634Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya555555222839Phrae3333313117Phuket3333331420Prachinburi333331518Prachuap Khiri Khan3333332522Ranong1111115Ratchaburi555555411435Rayong554554124434Roi Et8878886531265Sa Kaeo3333332926Sakon Nakhon777775731962Samut Prakan8888838613080Samut Sakhon444441433633Samut Songkhram11111116Saraburi44444342833Satun2222222214Sing Buri11111116Sisaket999996942983Songkhla9999977221165Sukhothai44444341630Suphan Buri55555422836Surat Thani777774521451Surin888887842273Tak3333323724Trang4444443528Trat111111117Ubon Ratchathani111110111135732586Udon Thani1010101010109812694Uthai Thani2222219Uttaradit33333331423Yala33333313423Yasothon3333312823Total:4003993933983992493502031131710763,526

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