Cambodia's ruling party scores landslide win in commune elections: official results

Officials counting ballots during June 5 commune council election. - PPP

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Hun Sen won a landslide victory in the fifth commune elections on June 5, according to official results released by the National Election Committee (NEC) on Friday (June 24)

Seventeen political parties contested in the polls for the 11,622 positions of commune councilors in 1,652 communes across the South-East Asian nation for the next five years.