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This is a list of political parties in Myanmar (also known as Burma).
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| Myanmarportal |
This is a list of political parties in Myanmar (also known as Burma).
| Party | Abbr. | Seats on the State Administration Council | Seats in Local Hluttaws | Position | |
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| 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 | ||
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This is the list of important events happened in Myanmar in 2023.
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