Thailand presents a unique case among the observed countries. Its derailed snap election of 2nd February was ranked 88th out of all 127 contests covered by PEI, not least due to the violent disruption campaign of the opposition People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) and the subsequent disenfranchisement of millions of voters. Yet, the country ranks above the global average in terms of electoral laws (Thailand: 80, global mean: 64) or district boundaries (Thailand: 76; global mean: 64). The 2014 election deepened Thailand’s political crisis – with the constitutional court annulling the contest on 21 March 2014, and the military staging a coup d’état on 22 May 2014, Thailand’s second coup in a decade. International watchdog organizations registered a significant deterioration of the human rights situation in Thailand since the coup.