List of political parties in Myanmar

Last updated August 11, 2025

This is a list of political parties in Myanmar (Burma).

Parties registered since 2023

The State Administration Council enacted a new political party registration law on January 26, 2023, significantly increasing requirements for political parties. This law mandates parties to re-register within 60 days or face disbandment.^[1]

Key requirements for national parties include:^{[ citation needed ]}

Recruiting 100,000 members within 90 days of registration (a 100-fold increase from the previous law's 1,000 members), later an amendment of the law in 5 March 2024 reduced party membership requirement to 50,000 members.
Establishing offices in at least half of Myanmar's 330 townships within six months.
Depositing 100 million kyats with a state-owned bank.

Below is a list of political parties that have been approved by the Union Election Commission (UEC) under the new 2023 political parties registration law, and are thus eligible to compete in the 2025 general election.^{[ citation needed ]}

Registered political parties in Myanmar
Serial No.	Political party name	Abbreviation	Registration Date / Serial No.	Announcement No.	Remarks
1	Union Solidarity and Development Party	USDP	20-4-2023 / Serial No. (1)	6/2023
2	Myanmar People's Democratic Party	MPD	24-4-2023 / Serial No. (2)	7/2023
3	New Democratic Party (Kachin)	NDP-Kachin	25-4-2023 / Serial No. (3)	8/2023
4	Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party	PSDP	25-4-2023 / Serial No. (4)	9/2023
5	National Unity Party	NUP	25-4-2023 / Serial No. (5)	10/2023
6	Arakan Front Party (AFP)	AFP	2-5-2023 / Serial No. (6)	11/2023
7	Tai-Leng Nationalities Development Party (T.N.D.P)	TNDP	2-5-2023 / Serial No. (7)	12/2023
8	Shan-Ni Solidarity Party (S.S.P)	SSP	2-5-2023 / Serial No. (8)	13/2023
9	Rakhine State National Force Party	RSNFP	2-5-2023 / Serial No. (9)	14/2023
10	Pa-O National Organization (PNO) Party	PNO	4-5-2023 / Serial No. (10)	15/2023
11	Mro Nationalities Party	MNP	4-5-2023 / Serial No. (11)	16/2023
12	Lisu National Development Party (L.N.D.P)	LNDP	5-5-2023 / Serial No. (12)	17/2023
13	Khami National Development Party	KNDP	5-5-2023 / Serial No. (13)	18/2023
14	Akha National Development Party	ANDP	8-5-2023 / Serial No. (14)	19/2023
15	Inn National League Party	INLP	16-5-2023 / Serial No. (15)	20/2023
16	Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (KKDUP)	KKDUP	16-5-2023 / Serial No. (16)	21/2023
17	Karen National Democratic Party	KNDP	22-5-2023 / Serial No. (17)	22/2023
18	Karen People's Party (KPP)	KPP	22-5-2023 / Serial No. (18)	23/2023
19	Shan State Kokang Democratic Party	SSKDP	30-5-2023 / Serial No. (19)	24/2023
20	Naga National Party (NNP)	NNP	30-5-2023 / Serial No. (20)	25/2023
21	Danu National Democracy Party	DNDP	5-6-2023 / Serial No. (21)	26/2023
22	People's Pioneer Party	PPP	5-6-2023 / Serial No. (22)	27/2023
23	Democratic Party of National Politics (DNP)	DNP	9-6-2023 / Serial No. (23)	28/2023
24	National Political Alliances League Party	NPALP	9-6-2023 / Serial No. (24)	29/2023
25	Federal Democratic Party	FDP	9-6-2023 / Serial No. (25)	30/2023
26	People's Labour Party	PLP	21-6-2023 / Serial No. (26)	31/2023
27	Myanmar Farmers' Development Party	MFDP	21-6-2023 / Serial No. (27)	32/2023
28	Shan and Nationalities Democratic Party (White Tiger Party)	SNDP	23-6-2023 / Serial No. (28)	33/2023
29	Democratic Party	DP	23-6-2023 / Serial No. (29)	34/2023
30	Democratic Force Labour Party	DFLP	23-6-2023 / Serial No. (30)	35/2023
31	Women's Party (Mon)	WP-Mon	23-6-2023 / Serial No. (31)	36/2023
32	Mro National Development Party	MNDP	3-7-2023 / Serial No. (32)	37/2023
33	New National Democracy Party	NNDP	14-7-2023 / Serial No. (33)	38/2023
34	National Interest Development Party (NIDP)	NIDP	14-7-2023 / Serial No. (34)	39/2023
35	"Wa" National Party	WNP	27-7-2023 / Serial No. (35)	40/2023
36	Khumi National Party	KNP	11-8-2023 / Serial No. (36)	41/2023
37	National Political New Spirit Party	NPNSP	15-9-2023 / Serial No. (37)	42/2023
38	United Nationalities Democracy Party	UNDP	7-11-2023 / Serial No. (38)	43/2023
39	Union Peace and Unity Party	UPUP	7-11-2023 / Serial No. (39)	44/2023
40	Myanmar Farmers' and Workers' People's Party	MFWPP	13-11-2023 / Serial No. (40)	45/2023
41	Modern People Party	MPP	20-11-2023 / Serial No. (41)	46/2023
42	Labour Party	Labour	20-11-2023 / Serial No. (42)	47/2023
43	National Democratic Force Party (NDF)	NDF	23-11-2023 / Serial No. (43)	50/2023
44	The 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar) Party		29-11-2023 / Serial No. (44)	51/2023
45	The Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics Party	UMFNPP	29-11-2023 / Serial No. (45)	52/2023
46	The Party for People	PFP	21-12-2023 / Serial No. (46)	53/2023
47	People's Party	PP	29-12-2023 / Serial No. (47)	54/2023
48	Mon Progressive Party	MPP	1-4-2024 / Serial No. (48)	1/2024
49	Peace Facilitation Party	PFP	25-4-2024 / Serial No. (49)	2/2024
50	Diversity and Peace Party	DPP	15-7-2024 / Serial No. (50)	3/2024
51	Kachin State People's Party (KSPP)	KSPP	19-8-2024 / Serial No. (51)	4/2024
52	Mon Unity Party	MUP	9-9-2024 / Serial No. (52)	5/2024
53	Union Farmers and Workers Force Party	UFWFP	12-11-2024 / Serial No. (53)	6/2024
54	Social and Economic Advancement Party	SEAP	18-11-2024 / Serial No. (54)	7/2024
55	Unity and Development Party (UADP)	UDP	2-12-2024 / Serial No. (55)	8/2024
56	Kayah State People's Party (KySPP)	KySPP	20-2-2025 / Serial No. (56)	1/2025
57	New Chinland Congress Party (NCC)	NCC	10-7-2025 / Serial No. (57)	2/2025	^[2]

Parties represented in the 2016–2021 Assembly of the Union

	Abbr.	Seats on the State Administration Council	Seats in Local Hluttaws	Position
National League for Democracy (banned since 2023^[3]) အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်	NLD	0 / 18	476 / 879	Centrist ^[4] 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

Defunct parties

Political alliances

Political organisations

Governments in exile

References

↑ "Myanmar's military government enacts new political party law". AP News. 28 January 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
↑ "ချင်းပြည်သစ်ကွန်ဂရက်ပါတီ [New Chinland Congress (NCC)] ကို နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီအဖြစ် မှတ်ပုံတင်ခွင့်ပြုခြင်း". Ministry of Information. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
↑ 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.

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[1] "Myanmar's military government enacts new political party law". AP News. 28 January 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2025.

[2] "ချင်းပြည်သစ်ကွန်ဂရက်ပါတီ [New Chinland Congress (NCC)] ကို နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီအဖြစ် မှတ်ပုံတင်ခွင့်ပြုခြင်း". Ministry of Information. Retrieved 11 July 2025.

[3] 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.

[4] Derbyshire, ed. (2016). Encyclopedia of World Political Systems. Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 9781317471561.

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