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 any province which can elect more than one Member of the House of People’s Representatives shall be divided into constituencies in the number corresponding to that of the Members of the House of People’s Representatives that it should have, in respect of which the areas of the constituencies must be divided in such a manner that makes them adjoin each other and the numbers of the inhabitants in the constituencies must be close to each other.”

The provisions of section 91 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand shall be repealed and replaced by the following provisions:

"“In calculating the proportion of candidates on the list of each political party who are to be elected, the votes obtained from the whole Country by each political party shall be summed up and calculated in order to divide the number of the persons to be elected from each political party into the proportion directly in relation to the aforesaid number of the summed up votes. In this respect, the candidates named on the list of each political party shall, in order of their numbers on the list of that political party, be respectively elected in accordance with the standard score thus calculated.

The criteria, procedure, and conditions for the recruitment of candidates in an election of Members of the House of People’s Representatives on a party-list basis, the casting of votes, the counting of votes, the summing up of votes, the announcement of the results of the election, and other relevant activities shall be in accordance with the Organic Act on Elections of Members of the House of People’s Representatives.”"

In the initial period, the provisions of sections 83, 86, and 91 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand as amended by this Constitution shall not be applied until the first general election of Members of the House of People’s Representatives after the promulgation of this Constitution takes place.

Whilst the provisions of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand as amended by this Constitution have not yet been applied by virtue of paragraph 1, the provisions of the mentioned sections prior to being amended by this Constitution and the Organic Act on Elections of Members of the House of People’s Representatives enacted for the implementation of those provisions shall continue to be applied.