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 "“The House of People’s Representatives is composed of Members numbering five hundred, of whom four hundred are Members elected on a constituency basis and one hundred are Members elected on a party-list basis.

Elections of Members of the House of People’s Representatives shall be conducted by means of direct and secret ballot, with different ballot papers used for each basis of Members of the House of People’s Representatives.

In the event that a position of Member of the House of People’s Representatives has become vacant for any reason and no Member of the House of People’s Representatives has yet been elected or announced to fill the vacant position, the House of People’s Representatives shall only be composed of the existing Members of the House of People’s Representatives.

In the event that there occurs any cause which causes the number of the Members elected on a party-list basis to be less than one hundred, the party-list Members of the House of People’s Representatives shall only be composed of those existing.”"

The provisions of section 86 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand shall be repealed and replaced by the following provisions:

“The designation of the number of the Members of the House of People’s Representatives that each province should have, and the division of constituencies, shall follow the following procedure:

the number of the inhabitants throughout the Country as evidenced in the civil register announced in the last year before the year of the election shall be balanced with the number of four hundred Members of the House of People’s Representatives, and the obtained number shall be considered the number of inhabitants per one Member;

any province the inhabitants of which are below the standard number of inhabitants per one Member according to (1) shall be able to have one Member of the House of People’s Representatives, with the province being considered a constituency;

any province the inhabitants of which are above the number of inhabitants per one Member shall have one additional Member of the House of People’s Representatives per every number of inhabitants which reaches the standard number of inhabitants per one Member;

after the number of the Members of the House of People’s Representatives for each province has been obtained in accordance with (2) and (3), if the number of the Members of the House of People’s Representatives is still less than four hundred, the province with the highest residue left from the calculation under (3) shall have one additional Member of the House of People’s Representatives, and Members of the House of People’s Representatives shall be increased in accordance with the said procedure for the respective provinces with the next highest residues left from such calculation until the number of four hundred is fulfilled;