The Union Karen League 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 ...

led by

Win Maung Mahn Win Maung ( my, မန်းဝင်းမောင် ; 17 April 1916 – 4 July 1989) was a statesman who served as the third president of Burma. Early life Win Maung was an ethnic Karen and born on 17 April 1916 in the Irrawaddy de ...

History

The party was formed by San Po Thin and

Mahn Ba Khaing Mahn Ba Khaing ( my, မန်းဘခိုင် ; 26 October 1903 – 19 July 1947) was a Karen politician who served as the Minister of Industry and Labour in Burma's pre-independence government. He was assassinated on 19 July 1947 an ...

in 1947 after a split in the Karen Central Organisation, and became a member of 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 ...

.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p135 It was initially named Karen Youth Organisation (ကရင်လူငယ်အဖွဲ့), before being renamed. In the April 1947 elections it won 19 of the 210 seats in the national Constituent Assembly and 21 seats in the Karen State Council, in which it was the largest party.Fukui, p151 In the 1951–52 elections it was reduced to 13 of the 250 seats in the

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. Following the restoration of multi-party democracy in the 1980s, a new Union Karen League was formed. It nominated seven candidates for the 1990 general elections, but failed to win a seat.1990 multi-party democracy general elections
Democratic Voice of Burma The party attempted to re-register to contest the 2010 general elections, but was prevented from registering in time to run in the national elections.Union Kayin League
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{{Burmese political parties Defunct political parties in Myanmar Political parties established in 1947 1947 establishments in Burma