Bhutan's opposition party scores upset win

THE tiny landlocked Buddhist nation of Bhutan has a new government.

The opposition People's Democratic Party has stormed to an upset victory, with voters ousting the country's first democratically-elected administration.

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) had won 31 seats in the vote for parliament while the incumbent Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) party had snared just 14 seats according to the website of Bhutan's national newspaper Kuensel on Saturday afternoon.

The winning party needed 24 out of 47 seats up for grabs to form the next government in the "land of the thunder dragon", according to the Kuensel website, after two other groups were knocked out in a primary voting round in May.

The polling marks only the second time in history that voters in the nation sandwiched between India and China have elected a government,

Remote Bhutan's line of "dragon kings" ceded absolute power five years ago, introducing democracy to an electorate of fewer than 400,000 people.

The royalist DPT won the first election by a landslide in 2008 and bagged this year's primary round with 45 per cent of votes.

But recent gains by the PDP shook up the contest with one local editorial calling it "a neck-and-neck race".

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