The seventh gubernatorial election for the city of
Bangkok,
Thailand was held on August 29, 2004, to determine the governor of
Bangkok. The
Democrat Party's candidate,
Apirak Kosayodhin, won 36.86 percent of the vote. [1] Of a total of 3,955,855 voters, 2,472,486 people voted, a turnout rate of 62.50 percent.
Samak Sundaravej, the incumbent governor, did not seek to run for a second term and ran instead in the
2006 Thai Senate election.
From the first Bangkok gubernatorial election in 1975 until this time. There were exactly 100 candidates in total.[2]
