BANGKOK: Thailand's anti-government protesters on Sunday prevented 89 constituencies out of the total 375 nationwide from going through with the advance voting for the Feb. 2 election.

As a result, 440,000 people, or 22 percent of the 2 million who had registered to vote in advance, failed to cast their votes, Election Commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn was quoted by Bangkok Post as saying.

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