- Founded
- 08.12.10
- Members
- 4,000
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 25.08.10
- People's parliament
- 26 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 8 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 6 candidates
Not to be confused with the 88 Generation Students Group led by prominent activist Min Ko Naing, the 88GSY is believed to be pro-junta and claims to have some 4000 members. It is led by Ye Tun, the brother of UMFNP party leader, Aye Lwin.
- Founded
- 14.09.09
- Members
- 1,000
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 24.05.10
- People's parliament
- 8 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 9 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 16 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 1 candidates
The AMRDP has highlighted the end to oppression of ethnic minorities as a key election priority, with a particular focus on the Mon group in eastern Burma, although it will also compete in Pegu (Bago) state, Kayin (Karen) state and Taninthayi (Tenasserim) division. It is the only Mon political group taking part in the polls. Mon state is also home to the armed group, the New Mon State Party (NMSP), which has refused to compete in the polls.
- Members
- 3,000
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 27.05.10
- People's parliament
- 7 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 7 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 9 candidates
The CNP is a Chin ethnic party competing only in constituencies in Chin state. There are around 1.5 million Chin people, between 80 and 90 percent of whom are Christian. Led by cartoonist and humanitarian worker U Zam Ciin Paul, the CNP will prioritise improving infrastructure and facilities in Chin State and promoting peaceful resolution to ethnic armed conflict.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 01.06.10
- People's parliament
- 7 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 13 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 19 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 1 candidates
The CPP is a Chin ethnic party competing in Chin state and in neighbouring Sagaing division. There are around 1.5 million Chin people, between 80 and 90 percent of whom are Christian. Mostly composed of retired government officials and businessmen, the party says it will focus on equal rights and strive to develop the social, economic and education sectors for the Chin people.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 24.05.10
- People's parliament
- 13 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 5 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 1 candidates
The DPP is led by Aung Than, a high court attorney, 1990 election candidate and a member of the League for Democracy and Peace, a political party founded by former Burmese Prime Minister U Nu in 1988. It is not aligned with the Burmese junta, and instead campaigns for a switch to free market principles.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 20.05.10
- People's parliament
- 21 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 9 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 16 candidates
The DP is one of the more vocal of the opposition parties, and is headed by Dr Thu Wai. Included in the party are the ‘three princesses’ – Than Than Nu, Nay Yee Ba Swe and Cho Cho Kyaw Nyien – all daughters of former heads of state during Burma’s brief experiment with civilian rule, which ended in 1962. It has a 23-strong Central Executive Committee. It highlights harmonious relations between Burma’s 135 ethnic groups as a key priority for post-election Burma.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 16.06.10
- Nationalities Parliament
- 1 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 2 candidates
The ENDP represents the Mara people, a Chin minority of around 100,000 people found in Chin and Rakhine (Arakan) states in Burma, as well as parts of India. The party's main goal is “to unite the Mara tribe with the Chin ethnic group”, according to vice president Pu Van Cin.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- People's parliament
- 44 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 7 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 31 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 6 candidates
82 independent candidates will run in the elections. Some have made superficial links with parties and will run as quasi party members – eight independent candidates, for example, have joined the ranks of the Democratic Party Myanmar.
Dissolved
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 01.06.10
- People's parliament
- 1 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 1 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 2 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 1 candidates
The KNP is an ethnic party representing the Kayan (Padaung), a Karenni ethnic group living in Shan state, Kayan (Karenni) state and Kayin (Karen) state . Its stated objectives are to defend the Union, forge national unity and work with other ethnic groups “for perpetuation of sovereignty”.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 05.07.10
- People's parliament
- 3 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 1 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 5 candidates
The KNPP represents members of the Kaman people, a Rakhine (Arakan) ethnic group who mostly live in Rakhine state in western Burma. Believed to be pro-junta with a strong business focus, it is led by businessmen and retired government officers. The party says it aims to achieve equal rights for all ethnic groups to conduct business freely.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 20.05.10
- People's parliament
- 2 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 3 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 7 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 1 candidates
Ostensibly representing the Lahu ethnic minority that number around 150,000 in eastern Shan state in Burma (but many more in China), the LNDP is one of the few parties in the elections this year that competed in 1990. Then it won only one seat in Shan state from seven constituencies.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 21.05.10
- People's parliament
- 8 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 5 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 24 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 5 candidates
The KPP from Burma’s eastern Kayin (Karen) state is one of 21 ethnic parties competing in the elections. It is led by Saw Tun Aung Myint, a retired navy commander.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 19.08.10
- Nationalities Parliament
- 2 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 2 candidates
The KSDDP is a pro-junta group from Burma’s eastern Kayin (Karen) state. It is formed of former members of armed ceasefire groups who sided with the Burmese junta in its quest to transform ethnic armies into Border Guard Forces. It is chaired by Saw Tha Htoo Kyaw and headquartered in the volatile Pa-an area of Karen state.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 09.07.10
- Nationalities Parliament
- 3 candidates
The KNDP is an ethnic party representing the Khami (Mro) ethnic group in Rakhine (Arakan) state in western Burma. The party aims to preserve Khami culture and to cooperate with other ethnic groups to ensure the multi-party democracy system flourishes in Burma.
- Founded
- 10.08.88
- Members
- 500,000
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 07.05.10
- People's parliament
- 3 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 1 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 5 candidates
The KDUP is an ethnic party representing the Kokang, a Han Chinese ethnic group living in a self-administered region in northern Shan state. As well as preserving sovereignty and the Union, the party aims to promote and develop a market-oriented economic system.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 29.04.10
- People's parliament
- 3 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 8 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 1 candidates
The NUP is the successor to former junta leader Ne Win's Burma Socialist Programme Party. It came second in the 1990 elections. The party enjoys the military backing and is fielding the second-highest number of candidates after the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 28.05.10
- People's parliament
- 7 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 5 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 19 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 1 candidates
The MPP (formerly New Era Peoples Party) is a spawn of the Red Flag communist party, a splinter group of the Burma Communist Party (BCP), the country’s oldest political party. Under the name of the Unity and Progressive Party, it contested the 1990 elections but was dissolved by the junta in 1992.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 28.04.10
- People's parliament
- 1 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 1 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 8 candidates
The MNSO is an ethnic party representing the Khami (Mro) ethnic group competing in Rakhine (Arakan) and Chin states. The party aims to safeguard Khami (Mro) culture and work with other ethnic groups to develop the nation.
Nyo Min Lwin (C), Tin Maung Aye (VC-1, not contesting), Daw Sandar Oo (VC-2), Nay Myo Wai (GS), Aung Myo Oo (JGS), Aung San Oo (JGS), Ko Ko Latt, Daw Sandar Oo, Ba Win, Mya Win, Cho Win
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 09.07.10
- People's parliament
- 102 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 41 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 24 candidates
The NDF is made up of former members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), who broke with the NLD in order to participate in the elections. The party is the third largest party competing in the polls after the two junta-backed parties, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the National Unity Party.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 04.06.10
- People's parliament
- 7 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 5 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 11 candidates
Little is known of the NDPD, which is believed to hold values close to the opposition parties contesting these elections. It became the subject of a protest by some 50 USDP members in October in Arakan state, forcing it to halt its campaign work there.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 24.08.10
- Nationalities Parliament
- 2 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 1 candidates
The NDPP bills itself as a multi-racial party, with its main offices in Yangon (Rangoon) and Rakhine (Arakan) state. It is led by Muhammad Salim, one of the few Muslims playing a leading role in the elections. The wholly Buddhist junta is accused of persecuting Burma’s Muslim population, the majority of whom are not recognised by the government as Burmese citizens.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 27.05.10
- People's parliament
- 8 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 4 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 4 candidates
The NPAL is alliance of smaller groups that is competing in the elections at the national level. The party is led by a number of former NLD members elected in the 1990 elections who were subsequently expelled from the party. Vice Chairman Ohn Lwin has campaigned against sanctions.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 13.05.10
- People's parliament
- 3 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 1 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 5 candidates
The PNO is set to contest at least three seats in Shan state, home to the Pa O ethnic minority group. The three seats are in Hopong, Hsihseng and Pinlaung townships, which under the 2008 constitution are to comprise the Pa O Self-Administered Zone. There are an estimated 600,000 Pa O in eastern Burma, and form the second largest ethnic group in Shan state.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 01.06.10
- People's parliament
- 3 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 2 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 2 candidates
The opposition PDP has targeted poverty in Burma as one of its main campaigning focuses. It recently withdrew from a six-party opposition alliance following accusations that an alliance member, the National Democratic Force (NDF), accepted funding from a Burmese business tycoon.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 04.06.10
- People's parliament
- 5 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 4 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 9 candidates
The Karen state-based PSDP has been campaigning in Karen areas close to the Thailand border, but recently spread its activities Mon state, Taninthayi (Tenasserim) division, Bago (Pegu) division, Yangon (Rangoon) division and Ayeyawady (Irrawaddy) division.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 01.06.10
- People's parliament
- 12 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 10 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 26 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 1 candidates
The RNDP from Arakan state is billed as an opposition party and will contest around 44 seats in the western state, where it faces major competition from the pro-junta USDP and Rakhine State National Force of Myanmar Party.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 20.05.10
- People's parliament
- 2 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 2 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 8 candidates
The RSNFMP is competing in Rakhine (Arakan) state and claims to represent people of various races within the state. The party's leader, Aye Kyaing, contested the 1990 elections as a candidate for the junta-backed National Unity Party, but failed to win.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 26.05.10
- People's parliament
- 45 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 15 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 95 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 3 candidates
The SNDP, widely known as the White Tiger Party in testament to its emblem, will contest more than 40 of the 55 seats in Shan state. It is one of 22 ethnic parties in the elections, and ostensibly represents the interests of the Shan minority group in eastern Burma. Its chairman, Sai Ai Pao, was the general secretary of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), which came third in the 1990 elections.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 24.05.10
- People's parliament
- 4 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 2 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 10 candidates
Representing the Taaung (Palaung) ethnic minority in Shan state, it will field candidates at all legislative levels and contest all seats in northern Shan state, as well as areas of southern Shan state and into Kachin state and Mandalay and Rangoon. The Palaung ethnic group lives predominantly in China, Burma and Thailand, and numbers some 550,000.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 28.05.10
- People's parliament
- 2 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 1 candidates
The UDP falls into the 'third force' bracket, outwardly allied to neither the ruling junta nor opposition parties, although it has leaned towards the latter. Although one of the more vocal parties, it will only field three candidates, claiming it is unable to afford the steep registration fees. Its former head, Phyo Min Thein, quit his post in August in protest at lack of reform of pre-election conditions.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 26.05.10
- People's parliament
- 27 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 12 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 10 candidates
The UMFNP is led by Aye Lwin, a former student activist who then became a prominent anti-sanctions campaigner, a move that some observers claim has led him to cosying up to the regime. It is bracketed as a pro-junta party, although its relations with the ruling regime remain unclear.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 08.06.10
- People's parliament
- 316 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 160 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 616 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 27 candidates
The USDP is the strongest contender in these elections with more than 1,100 candidates. It is heavily backed by the ruling junta, and led by current Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein. It also includes up to 30 retired junta officials who switched from military uniform to civilian wear in order to compete in the polls, and has inherited huge wealth from the disbanded ‘civilian wing’ of the junta, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) . It has been recruiting party members by offering low-interest loans, particularly in central Burma and Rakhine (Arakan) state.
- Members
- 21
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 26.05.10
- People's parliament
- 4 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 4 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 1 candidates
Not to be confused with the Union Democracy Party, this one is led by Kyaw Myint, an ethnic Kachin and prominent tycoon, with business interests in North America and Asia. He has strongly rejected accusations of links to the drugs industry. The UDP is based in Kachin state.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 10.08.10
- People's parliament
- 2 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 3 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 2 candidates
- Ethnic national representative
- 2 candidates
The UDPKS is a pro-junta party that some observers claim was formed by the regime to counter the influence of other opposition and third force parties running in northernmost Burma. According to ALTSEAN advocacy coalition, it is the "Kachin arm of the USDP" and its chairman, Khet Htein Nan, is a former junta official.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 02.06.10
- People's parliament
- 8 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 1 candidates
- Regions and State Parliament
- 8 candidates
The WPD is one of two parties competing in the Wa region of eastern Shan state, much of which is controlled by Burma's largest ceasefire group, the United Wa State Army (UWSA). It is led by Khun Tun Lu, who is believed to have close ties to the pro-junta USDP. He ran with the junta-backed NUP in the 1990 elections, winning the only seat for the party in Shan state.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 21.05.10
- People's parliament
- 3 candidates
- Nationalities Parliament
- 1 candidates
The WNUP will field candidates in four constituencies in Shan state, which is home to the Wa ethnic group. The region also hosts the United Wa State Army, Burma’s largest armed ethnic group and once the chief source of the country’s sizeable drugs output. Links between the WNUP and UWSA are unknown. The junta has however banned voting in some Wa areas – its reasoning is that the region remains unstable, while critics claim its lack of influence in these areas means that pro-junta parties will lose.
- Registered for election 2010
- Yes
- Registration date
- 27.05.10
- People's parliament
- 5 candidates
‘Wunthanu’ translates as ‘patriotic’ or ‘nationalist’ – the party is formed of former National League for Democracy members who resigned in 2003. It will contest seats in Mandalay division. It is headed by Nan Shwe Kyar, one of the few females holding a prominent position in these elections.
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