List of political parties in Myanmar

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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.

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 Dissolved
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 Dissolved
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 Dissolved
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
58 Rakhine Nationalities Party 4-8-2025 / Serial No. (58) 41/2025
59 Zomi National Party 7-8-2025 / Serial No. (59) 42/2025
60 Pa-O National Unity Party 8-8-2025 / Serial No. (60) 47/2025

Parties represented in the 2016–2021 Assembly of the Union

Party Abbr. Seats on the State Administration Council Seats in
Local Hluttaws 		Position
National League for Democracy
(banned since 2023)
အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ် 		NLD
0 / 18
476 / 879
 Centrist
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
တပ်မ​တော် 		—
9 / 18
216 / 879
 Militarist
Independents —
0 / 18
1 / 879
Vacant — 0 14

Unrepresented parties

  • 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
  • Myanmar National Truth and Justice 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

  • 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

  • Federal Democracy Alliance
  • Nationalities Brotherhood Federation
  • United Nationalities Alliance
  • United Political Parties Alliance

Political organisations

  • 88 Generation Students Group
  • Myanmar Democracy Congress
  • National Political Alliances League
  • Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics
  • United Nationalities Federal Council
  • Union Solidarity and Development Association

Governments in exile

See also

  • Assembly of the Union
  • Elections in Myanmar

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