The Burma Democratic Party ( my, ဗမာပြည် ဒီမိုကရက်တစ် ပါတီ; BDP) was a political party in
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
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History
The party was established by
Dobama Asiayone
Dobama Asiayone ( my, တို့ဗမာအစည်းအရုံး, ''Dóbăma Ăsì-Ăyòun'', meaning ''We Burmans Association'', DAA), commonly known as the Thakhins ( my, သခင် ''sa.hkang'', lit. Lords), was a Burmese national ...
founder
U Ba Sein in the early 1950s.
[Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p118] The party had some support from Buddhist monks and, seeing itself as a right-wing alternative to the
Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
The Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL), ; abbreviated , ''hpa hsa pa la'' was the dominant political alliance in Burma from 1945 to 1958. It consisted of political parties and mass and class organizations.
The league evolved out of t ...
, it joined the
People's Democratic Front to contest
1951–52 general elections, with the alliance winning 19 seats.
Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...
, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p614
It ran alone in the
1956 elections, but received just 2.9% of the vote and failed to win a seat. Its vote share fell to 0.1% in the
1960 elections, in which it again failed to enter Parliament.
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References
{{Burmese political parties
Defunct political parties in Myanmar
Socialist parties in Myanmar