The Myanmar junta’s Union Election Commission (UEC) announced the winners of the 2025-2026 parliamentary elections on 3 February.
According to the statement, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) secured the largest number of seats, winning 231 out of 263 constituencies in the Pyithu Hluttaw.
Among political parties contesting nationwide, the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP), widely known as the White Tiger Party, won seven seats, while the National Unity Party (NUP) gained only four.
Three other parties, the People’s Party (PP), the People’s Pioneer Party (PPP), and the Myanmar Farmers Development Party failed to win any seats.
At the state and regional level Pyithu Hluttaw contests, the Pa-O National Organisation (PNO) and the Mon Unity Party each won five seats. The Naga National Party (NNP) secured four seats, while the Karen National Democratic Party (KNDP) won one.
Several other ethnic parties won single seats, including the Rakhine Nationalities Party (RNP), Shanni Solidarity Party (SSP), Danu National Democracy Party, Inn National Development Party (INDP), and the Kachin State People’s Party (KSPP). One seat was also won by an independent candidate.
In the Amyotha Hluttaw elections conducted under both the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) and Proportional Representation (PR) systems, the USDP won 108 seats, the NUP secured 16, the SNDP gained one, the People’s Party won five, and the People’s Pioneer Party won one.
Of these, PR representatives included 45 from the USDP, 16 from the NUP, one from the SNDP, five from the People’s Party, and one from the People’s Pioneer Party.
The remaining 16 PR seats were won by ethnic political parties. The Myanmar Farmers Development Party did not win any PR representation.
The junta held elections in 330 townships across three phases. Phase 1 took place in 102 townships on 28 December 2025. Phase 2 was held in 100 townships on 11 January 2026. Phase 3 covered 61 townships on 25 January 2026.
No voting was conducted in 67 townships.
These elections were held after the military annulled the results of the 2020 general election and dissolved several ethnic parties, as well as the main opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), which had won the 2020 vote.
Several opposition leaders have been imprisoned under various legal provisions since the coup.
Ahead of the elections, the junta enacted the “Law on the Protection of Multi-Party Democratic General Elections from Obstruction, Disruption, and Destruction.” Between July 2025, when the law was introduced, and 19 January 2026, authorities arrested 404 people. Some received prison sentences ranging from three to seven years.
The military-run election was widely condemned by the public and the international community, who described it as a sham lacking legitimacy.
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