Furious voters hold a mock funeral after hundreds of overseas ballots went ‘missing’ in Thailand’s controversial elections.

The national poll on March 24 - which is yet to have a winner after the army delayed releasing results - has sparked outrage after a serious of blunders.

Overseas residents in New Zealand cast their votes two days before but they were voided after a plane carrying them was repeatedly delayed.

Angry locals staged a funeral with signs saying ‘R.I.P 1,542 votes’ in the Wellington region of New Zealand on March 31.

The ‘funeral’ came amidst mounting allegations of cheating and manipulation in the first general election since a 2014 army coup.

Thai Airways, which had been carrying the votes sealed in a diplomatic pouch, said nobody from the government arrived to collect the papers when they arrived in Thailand on Saturday March 23, a day before the elections.

Airline President Sumeth Damrongchaitham said: ‘’Our staff members were informed that the officials could not come to claim them that night. They said they would come in the morning. They came the next day [election day] and got them at 7.30pm.’’

Thailand’s Election Commission, which had been widely criticised for its handling of the poll, said the votes had arrived too late for them to count.