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(also known as Burma).


Parties represented in the

Assembly of the Union The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စု လွှတ်တော် lit. Assembly of the Union) is the ''de jure'' national-level bicameral legislature of Myanmar (officially known as the ''Republic of the Union of My ...


Unrepresented parties

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Arakan Liberation Party The Arakan Liberation Party ( my, ရခိုင်ပြည် လွတ်မြောက်ရေး ပါတီ; ALP) is a Rakhine political party in Myanmar (Burma). The party has an armed wing, the Arakan Liberation Army (ALA), which ...
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Arakan National Council The Arakan National Council ( my, ရခိုင် အမျိုးသား ကောင်စီ; abbreviated ANC) is an ethno-political organisation in Myanmar that campaigns for the interests of the Rakhine people. It was founded at a co ...
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Chin National Front The Chin National Front ( my, ချင်းအမျိုးသားတပ်ဦး; CNF) is a Chin nationalist political organization in Myanmar. According to its website, its armed wing, the Chin National Army (CNA), fights the government of ...
* Chin National Party *
Chin Progressive Party The Chin Progressive Party ( my, ချင်းတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ; abbreviated CPP) is a Chin political party in Myanmar. History The party was formed on 24 March 2010.Communist Party of Burma The Communist Party of Burma (CPB), also known as the Burma Communist Party (BCP), is a clandestine communist party in Myanmar (Burma). It is the oldest existing political party in the country. Founded in 1939, the CPB initially fought ag ...
(banned) * Confederate Farmers Party * Dawei Nationalities Party *
Democracy and Human Rights Party The Democracy and Human Rights Party ( my, ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးပါတီ; abbr. DHRP) is a political party in Myanmar representing the Rohingya of northern Rakhine State. Histor ...
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Democracy and Peace Party The Democracy and Peace Party ( my, ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးပါတီ, ; abbreviated DPP; formerly the League for Democracy and Peace) is a Burmese political party registered in May ...
* Democratic Party for a New Society *
Ethnic National Development Party The Ethnic National Development Party ( my, တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးနွယ်စုများ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ; abbreviated ENDP) is a registered political party in Myanmar ...
* Federal Union Party * Inn National Development Party *
Kachin Independence Organization The Kachin Independence Organisation ( my, ကချင်လွတ်လပ်ရေးအဖွဲ့ချုပ်; abbreviated KIO) is a Kachin political organisation in Myanmar (Burma), established on 5 February 1961. It has an armed win ...
(banned) * Karen National Party *
Karen National Union The Karen National Union ( my, ကရင် အမျိုးသား အစည်းအရုံး; abbreviated KNU) is a political organisation with an armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), that claims to represent the Ka ...
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Karenni National Progressive Party The Karenni National Progressive Party ( my, ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ; Abbreviation, abbr. KNPP) is a Karenni people, Karenni political organisation in Kayah State, Myanmar (Burma). I ...
* Kaman National Progressive Party * Khami National Development Party * Lahu Democratic Union * Modern People's Party * Mro National Party *
Mro National Solidarity Organisation MRO or Mro or ''variant'' may refer to: People * Mru (disambiguation), peoples and languages also known as Mro * Mary Rambaran-Olm, Canadian literary historian Locations * Marlborough (disambiguation), some cities named Marlborough use MRO ...
* Myanmar Farmers Development Party *
National Democratic Force The National Democratic Force (NDF), is a political party in Myanmar (Burma). It was founded by former members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who disagreed with the party leadership's decision to boycott the 2010 general election ...
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National Democratic Party for Development National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...
* National Development Party * National Development and Peace Party *
New Mon State Party The New Mon State Party (NMSP) ( mnw, ဗော်ဍုၚ်မန်တၟိ; my, မွန်ပြည်သစ်ပါတီ ) is an opposition party in Myanmar. Its armed wing, the Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA), has fought the gove ...
* Palaung State Liberation Front * Peace and Diversity Party *
Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party The Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party ( my, ဖလုံ-စဝေါ် ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ; PSDP), also spelled Phlone-Sqaw Democratic Party, is a Karen political party in Myanmar. History The party was established in ...
* People's Party of Myanmar Farmers and Workers * Regional Development Party of Pyay *
Restoration Council of Shan State The Restoration Council of Shan State ( my, သျှမ်းပြည်ပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ရေးကောင်စီ; abbreviated RCSS) is a Shan political organisation in Shan State, Myanmar, founded in 1996 by Sh ...
* Shan State Progress Party *
Union Democratic Party The Union Democratic Party ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စုဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ, abbreviated UDP) is a Burmese political party founded in 2008. It was formally registered in May 2010, with headquarters in Bahan Township, ...
* United Democratic Party of Myanmar * United Kayin League *
United Wa State Party The United Wa State Party (UWSP) is the ruling party of Wa State, an autonomous region in northern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). It was founded on 3 November 1989 as a merger between the Burma National United Party (BNUP) and several smaller, no ...
* Wunthanu National League for Democracy


Defunct parties

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21 Party The 21 Party ( my, ၂၁ ဦးပါတီ) was a political party in Burma in the 1920s led by U Ba Pe. History The party was formed in 1922 following a split in the General Council of Burmese Associations (GCBA). The GCBA had planned to boyco ...
* All-Shan State Organisation *
Anti-Fascist Organisation The Anti-Fascist Organisation (AFO) was a resistance movement against the Japanese occupation of Burma and independence of Burma during World War II. It was the forerunner of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. History The AFO was formed a ...
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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 ...
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Anti-Separation League The Anti-Separation League was a political alliance in Burma. History The alliance was formed in July 1932 by parties that were not in favour of Burma being separated from British Raj in order to contest the 1932 general elections,Haruhiro Fukui ...
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Arakan League for Democracy The Arakan League for Democracy ( my, ရခိုင်ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်; abbreviated ALD) is a political party active in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma). History The ALD was founded on 27 September 1 ...
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Arakanese Muslim Association The Arakanese Muslim Association was a political party in Burma. The party was led by Sultan Mahmud, who served as Minister of Health during the U Nu period.Jacques Leider (2018"Rohingya: The History of a Muslim Identity in Myanmar"''Oxford Resea ...
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Arakanese National Unity Organisation The Arakanese National Unity Organisation (ANUO) was a political party in Burma. History The party was established in 1955 by members of the Independent Arakanese Parliamentary Group, who held nine seats at the time.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Politi ...
* Burma Democratic Party * Burma for the Burmans League * Burma Muslim Congress * Burma Nationalist Party * Burma Socialist Party *
Burma Socialist Programme Party The Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), ; abbreviated , was Burma's ruling party from 1962 to 1988 and sole legal party from 1964 to 1988. Party chairman Ne Win overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup d'ét ...
* Burma Workers Party * Chin Hills Congress *
Chin National Organisation The Chin National Organisation 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 spe ...
* Democracy Party *
Democratic Organisation for Kayan National Unity The Democratic Organisation for Kayan National Unity ( my, ကယန်းအမျိုးသားများ စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေး ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့; DOKNU) was a political party in M ...
* Freedom Bloc *
General Council of Burmese Associations The General Council of Burmese Associations (GCBA), also known as the Great Burma Organisation ( my, မြန်မာအသင်းချုပ်ကြီး; ''Myanma Ahthinchokgyi''), was a political party in Burma. History The GCBA was for ...
* Graduates and Old Students Democratic Association *
Hlaing-Myat-Paw GCBA The Hlaing-Myat-Paw GCBA was a political party in Burma led by Chit Hlaing. History One of several parties originating from the General Council of Burmese Associations, the Hlaing-Myat-Paw GCBA was a merger of the factions led by Chit Hlaing and ...
* Home Rule Party * Independent Arakanese Parliamentary Group * Independent Party * Justice Party *
Kachin National Congress The Kachin National Congress ( my, ကချင်အမျိုးသားများ ကွန်ဂရက်; KNC) was a political party in Burma. History Allied with the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, the party won seven seats in th ...
* Kamans National League for Democracy * Karen National Association * Karen State National Organisation * Kayah Democratic League * Kayah National United League * Kayah State Nationalities League for Democracy * Mara People's Party *
Mon National Front The Mon National Front was a political party in Burma. History The party contested national elections for the first and only time in 1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of se ...
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Naga Hills Regional Progressive Party The Naga Hills Regional Progressive Party ( my, နာဂတောင်တန်းဒေသတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ; NHRPP) was a political party in Myanmar. History Following the reintroduction of multi-party democracy after ...
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National Parliamentary Organisation The National Parliamentary Organisation ( my, အမျိုးသား ပါလီမန် ဖြစ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့) was a political party in Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. ...
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National United Front The National United Front ( my, အမျိုးသား ညီညွတ်ရေး တပ်ပေါင်းစု) was a political alliance in Burma. History The alliance was formed in 1955 as a successor to the People's Democratic Fro ...
* Nationalist Party * Party for National Democracy * Patriot's Party * Patriotic Alliance * Patriotic Old Comrades' League * People's Democratic Front *
People's Educational and Cultural Development Organisation The People's Educational and Cultural Development Organisation ( my, ပြည်သူ့ ယဉ်ကျေးမှုနှင့် တိုးတက် ကြီးပွားရေးအဖွဲ့; PEDCO) was a political party in Burma. ...
* People's Party * People's Peace Front * Poor Man's Party * Rakhine Nationalities Development Party *
Separation League The Separation League was a political alliance in Burma. History The alliance was formed to contest the 1932 general elections by parties that were in favour of Burma being separated from British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rā ...
* Shan State Peasants' Organisation * Swaraj Party * Ta'ang National League for Democracy *
Thakins 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 ...
* Union Danu League for Democracy Party *
Union Karen League The Union Karen League was a political party in Burma led by Win Maung. History The party was formed by San Po Thin and Mahn Ba Khaing in 1947 after a split in the Karen Central Organisation, and became a member of the Anti-Fascist People's F ...
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Union National Democracy Party The Union National Democracy Party (UNDP) was a political party in Myanmar. History The UNDP was formed on 16 December 1988 by Aung Gyi after he left the National League for Democracy The National League for Democracy ( my, အမျို ...
* Union Party *
United GCBA The United GCBA, also known as the Ngawbinwsaing ( Burmese for "Five Flowers Alliance"), was a political party in Burma led by U Ba Pe. History The party was formed in 1936 as a successor to the People's Party, and gained its name "Five Flower ...
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United Hill People's Congress The United Hill People's Congress ( my, တောင်တန်းသားများ စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေး ဦးစီးအဖွဲ့; UHPC) was a political party in Burma. History The party was originally e ...
* United National Pa-O Organisation *
United Nationalities League for Democracy The United Nationalities League for Democracy ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စု တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်; UNLD) was a political alli ...


Political organisations

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88 Generation Students Group The 88 Generation Students ( my, ၈၈ မျိုးဆက် ကျောင်းသားများ) is a Burma, Burmese pro-democracy movement known for their activism against the country's State Peace and Development Council, military ...
* Myanmar Democracy Congress *
National Political Alliances League National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...
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Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics The Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စု မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အမျိုးသား နိုင်ငံရေးအဖွဲ့ချုပ်, abbreviated UMFNP) is a ...
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United Nationalities Federal Council The United Nationalities Federal Council ( my, ညီညွတ်သောတိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးများဖက်ဒရယ်ကောင်စီ; abbreviated UNFC) is a coalition of five opposition gr ...
* Union Solidarity and Development Association


Governments in exile

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National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma The National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အမျိုးသားညွန့်ပေါင်းအစိုးရ ; NCGUB) was an administration ...
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National Council of the Union of Burma The National Council of the Union of Burma ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံအမျိုးသားကောင်စီ; ) was an opposition organisation in Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunc ...
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National Unity Government of Myanmar The National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar ( my, အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေး အစိုးရ; abbreviated NUG) is a Myanmar government in exile formed by the Committee Representing Pyida ...


See also

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Assembly of the Union The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စု လွှတ်တော် lit. Assembly of the Union) is the ''de jure'' national-level bicameral legislature of Myanmar (officially known as the ''Republic of the Union of My ...
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Elections in Myanmar Myanmar is a unitary republic, with elected representatives at the national state or region levels. On the national level, the president who is the head of state and legislature, is elected indirectly through an Electoral College. According to ...


External links


List of political parties registered for the 2015 Myanmar general election
{{Asia topic, List of political parties in
Myanmar 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 ...
Political parties
Myanmar 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 ...