The progressive People’s Party was leading in surveys conducted before Sunday’s election, but the country has a history of overturning voters’ will.

Here’s how the biggest issue of Thailand’s last election got sidelined in its latest.

Thailand’s general election on Sunday night produced one of the country’s most dramatic political upsets in recent years, according to unofficial results, with the conservative Bhumjaithai Party surging to a near landslide victory while the progressive People’s Party suffered a steep and unexpected decline.

Thailand’s conservatives are poised to form a government in what is shaping as an election lashing of both the youth-led reform movement and the political vehicle of the once-dominant Shinawatra family.

Polls have closed in Thailand where millions have voted in a key election following years of political turmoil. The snap poll was called by Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, the