List of political parties in Myanmar
(Redirected from List of political parties in Burma)
This is a list of political parties in Myanmar (also known as Burma).
Parties represented in the 2016–2021 Assembly of the Union edit
| Party | Abbr. | Seats on the State Administration Council | Seats in Local Hluttaws |
Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National League for Democracy (banned since 2023[1]) အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ် |
NLD | 0 / 18 |
476 / 879
|
Centrist[2] Liberalism | |
| Union Solidarity and Development Party ပြည်ထောင်စုကြံ့ခိုင်ရေးနှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ |
USDP | 4 / 18 |
73 / 879
|
Far-right Buddhist nationalism Conservatism | |
| Arakan National Party ရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီ |
ANP | 0 / 18 |
22 / 879
|
Far-right Rakhine nationalism | |
| Shan Nationalities League for Democracy ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် |
SNLD | 0 / 18 |
25 / 879
|
Centre-left Shan interests | |
| Ta'ang National Party တအာင်းအမျိုးသားပါတီ |
TNP | 0 / 18 |
7 / 879
|
Palaung interests | |
| Zomi Congress for Democracy ဇိုမီး ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် |
ZCD | 0 / 18 |
2 / 879
|
Zomi interests | |
| Mon National Party မွန်အမျိုးသားပါတီ |
MNP | 0 / 18 |
2 / 879
|
Mon nationalism | |
| National Unity Party တိုင်းရင်းသားစည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ |
NUP | 0 / 18 |
0 / 879
|
Centre-left Federalism Nationalism Populism | |
| Pa-O National Organisation ပအိုဝ်း အမျိုးသား အဖွဲ့ချုပ် |
PNO | 0 / 18 |
6 / 879
|
Pa'O interests | |
| Lisu National Development Party လီဆူးအမျိုးသားဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ |
LNDP | 0 / 18 |
2 / 879
|
Lisu interests | |
| Kachin State Democracy Party ကချင်ပြည်နယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ |
KSDP | 0 / 18 |
3 / 879
|
Kachin interests | |
| Kokang Democracy and Unity Party ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ 果敢民主团结党 |
KDUP | 0 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
Kokang nationalism Anti-communism Right-wing | |
| Wa Democratic Party ‘ဝ’ ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ |
WDP | 0 / 18 |
2 / 879
|
Centrist Wa interests | |
| All Mon Region Democracy Party မွန်ဒေသလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ |
AMRDP | 0 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
Mon interests | |
| Democratic Party ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ |
DP | 0 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
Liberal democracy | |
| Kayin People's Party ကရင်ပြည်သူ့ပါတီ |
KPP | 1 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
Karen interests | |
| La Hu National Development Party လားဟူ အမျိုးသား ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ပါတီ |
LHNDP | 0 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
Lahu interests | |
| Shan Nationalities Democratic Party ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ |
SNDP | 0 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
Shan interests Centre-right | |
| Tai-Leng Nationalities Development Party တိုင်းလိုင်(ရှမ်းနီ)အမျိုးသားများ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ |
TNDP | 0 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
Shan-Ni Interests | |
| Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးနှင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ ကချင်ပြည်နယ် |
UDPKS | 0 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
Kachin interests Centre-right | |
| Wa National Unity Party ဝ အမျိုးသား စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ |
WNUP | 0 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
Wa interests | |
| Military တပ်မတော် |
— | 9 / 18 |
216 / 879
|
Militarist | |
| Independents | — | 0 / 18 |
1 / 879
|
||
| Vacant | — | 0 | 14 | ||
Unrepresented parties edit
- Arakan Liberation Party
- Arakan National Council
- Chin National Front
- Chin National Party
- Chin Progressive Party
- Communist Party of Burma (banned)
- Confederate Farmers Party
- Dawei Nationalities Party
- Democracy and Human Rights Party
- Democracy and Peace Party
- Democratic Party for a New Society
- Ethnic National Development Party
- Federal Union Party
- Inn National Development Party
- Kachin Independence Organization (banned)
- Karen National Party
- Karen National Union
- Karenni National Progressive Party
- Kaman National Progressive Party
- Khami National Development Party
- Lahu Democratic Union
- Modern People's Party
- Mro National Party
- Mro National Solidarity Organisation
- Myanmar Farmers Development Party
- National Democratic Force
- National Democratic Party for Development
- National Development Party
- National Development and Peace Party
- New Mon State Party
- Palaung State Liberation Front
- Peace and Diversity Party
- Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party
- People's Party of Myanmar Farmers and Workers
- Regional Development Party of Pyay
- Restoration Council of Shan State
- Shan State Progress Party
- Union Democratic Party
- United Democratic Party of Myanmar
- United Kayin League
- United Wa State Party
- Wunthanu National League for Democracy
Defunct parties edit
- 21 Party
- All-Shan State Organisation
- Anti-Fascist Organisation
- Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
- Anti-Separation League
- Arakan League for Democracy
- Arakanese Muslim Association
- Arakanese National Unity Organisation
- Burma Democratic Party
- Burma for the Burmans League
- Burma Muslim Congress
- Burma Nationalist Party
- Burma Socialist Party
- Burma Socialist Programme Party
- Burma Workers Party
- Chin Hills Congress
- Chin National Organisation
- Democracy Party
- Democratic Organisation for Kayan National Unity
- Freedom Bloc
- General Council of Burmese Associations
- Graduates and Old Students Democratic Association
- Hlaing-Myat-Paw GCBA
- Home Rule Party
- Independent Arakanese Parliamentary Group
- Independent Party
- Justice Party
- Kachin National Congress
- 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
- Naga Hills Regional Progressive Party
- National Parliamentary Organisation
- National United Front
- 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
- People's Party
- People's Peace Front
- Poor Man's Party
- Rakhine Nationalities Development Party
- Separation League
- Shan State Peasants' Organisation
- Swaraj Party
- Ta'ang National League for Democracy
- Thakins
- Union Danu League for Democracy Party
- Union Karen League
- Union National Democracy Party
- Union Party
- United GCBA
- United Hill People's Congress
- United National Pa-O Organisation
- United Nationalities League for Democracy
Political alliances edit
Political organisations edit
Governments in exile edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Min Ye Kyaw; Rebecca Ratcliffe (28 March 2023). "Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party dissolved". The Guardian. Bangkok, Thailand. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
- ^ Derbyshire, ed. (2016). Encyclopedia of World Political Systems. Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 9781317471561.