List of political parties in Myanmar

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:

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. + Registered political parties in Myanmar Serial No. Political party nameAbbreviation Registration Date / Serial No. Announcement No. Remarks 1 Union Solidarity and Development PartyUSDP 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 PartyPSDP 25-4-2023 / Serial No. (4) 9/2023 5 National Unity PartyNUP 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 PartyRSNFP 2-5-2023 / Serial No. (9) 14/2023 10 Pa-O National Organization (PNO) PartyPNO 4-5-2023 / Serial No. (10) 15/2023 11 Mro Nationalities PartyMNP 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 PartyKNDP 5-5-2023 / Serial No. (13) 18/2023 14 Akha National Development PartyANDP 8-5-2023 / Serial No. (14) 19/2023 15 Inn National League PartyINLP 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 PartyKNDP 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 PartySSKDP 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 PartyDNDP 5-6-2023 / Serial No. (21) 26/2023 22 People's Pioneer PartyPPP 5-6-2023 / Serial No. (22) 27/2023 23 Democratic Party of National Politics (DNP)DNP 9-6-2023 / Serial No. (23) 28/2023Dissolved 24 National Political Alliances League PartyNPALP 9-6-2023 / Serial No. (24) 29/2023 25 Federal Democratic PartyFDP 9-6-2023 / Serial No. (25) 30/2023 26 People's Labour PartyPLP 21-6-2023 / Serial No. (26) 31/2023 27 Myanmar Farmers' Development PartyMFDP 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 PartyDP 23-6-2023 / Serial No. (29) 34/2023 30 Democratic Force Labour PartyDFLP 23-6-2023 / Serial No. (30) 35/2023 31 Women's Party (Mon)WP-Mon 23-6-2023 / Serial No. (31) 36/2023Dissolved 32 Mro National Development PartyMNDP 3-7-2023 / Serial No. (32) 37/2023 33 New National Democracy PartyNNDP 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 PartyWNP 27-7-2023 / Serial No. (35) 40/2023 36 Khumi National PartyKNP 11-8-2023 / Serial No. (36) 41/2023 37 National Political New Spirit PartyNPNSP 15-9-2023 / Serial No. (37) 42/2023 38 United Nationalities Democracy PartyUNDP 7-11-2023 / Serial No. (38) 43/2023 39 Union Peace and Unity PartyUPUP 7-11-2023 / Serial No. (39) 44/2023 40 Myanmar Farmers' and Workers' People's PartyMFWPP 13-11-2023 / Serial No. (40) 45/2023 41 Modern People PartyMPP 20-11-2023 / Serial No. (41) 46/2023 42 Labour PartyLabour 20-11-2023 / Serial No. (42) 47/2023 43 National Democratic Force Party (NDF)NDF 23-11-2023 / Serial No. (43) 50/2023Dissolved 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 PartyUMFNPP 29-11-2023 / Serial No. (45) 52/2023 46 The Party for PeoplePFP 21-12-2023 / Serial No. (46) 53/2023 47 People's PartyPP 29-12-2023 / Serial No. (47) 54/2023 48 Mon Progressive PartyMPP 1-4-2024 / Serial No. (48) 1/2024 49 Peace Facilitation PartyPFP 25-4-2024 / Serial No. (49) 2/2024 50 Diversity and Peace PartyDPP 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 PartyMUP 9-9-2024 / Serial No. (52) 5/2024 53 Union Farmers and Workers Force PartyUFWFP 12-11-2024 / Serial No. (53) 6/2024 54 Social and Economic Advancement PartySEAP 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) 1/202557New Chinland Congress Party (NCC)NCC10-7-2025 / Serial No. (57)2/202558Rakhine Nationalities Party4-8-2025 / Serial No. (58)41/202559Zomi National Party7-8-2025 / Serial No. (59)42/202560Pa-O National Unity Party8-8-2025 / Serial No. (60)47/2025

Parties represented in the 2016–2021 Assembly of the Union Party Abbr. Seats on the State Administration Council Seats inLocal HluttawsPosition National League for Democracy(banned since 2023)အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ် NLD Union Solidarity and Development Partyပြည်ထောင်စုကြံ့ခိုင်ရေးနှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ USDP Far-rightBuddhist nationalismConservatism Arakan National Partyရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီ ANP Far-rightRakhine nationalism Shan Nationalities League for Democracyရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် SNLD Centre-leftShan interests Ta'ang National Partyတအာင်းအမျိုးသားပါတီ TNP Palaung interests Zomi Congress for Democracyဇိုမီး ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် ZCD Zomi interests Mon National Partyမွန်အမျိုးသားပါတီ MNP Mon nationalism National Unity Partyတိုင်းရင်းသားစည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ NUP Centre-leftFederalismNationalismPopulism Pa-O National Organisationပအိုဝ်း အမျိုးသား အဖွဲ့ချုပ် PNO Pa'O interests Lisu National Development Partyလီဆူးအမျိုးသားဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ LNDP Lisu interests Kachin State Democracy Partyကချင်ပြည်နယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ KSDP Kachin interests Kokang Democracy and Unity Partyကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ果敢民主团结党 KDUP Kokang nationalismAnti-communismRight-wing Wa Democratic Party‘ဝ’ ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ WDP CentristWa interests All Mon Region Democracy Partyမွန်ဒေသလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ AMRDP Mon interests Democratic Partyဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ DP Liberal democracy Kayin People's Partyကရင်ပြည်သူ့ပါတီ KPP Karen interests La Hu National Development Partyလားဟူ အမျိုးသား ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ပါတီ LHNDP Lahu interests Shan Nationalities Democratic Partyရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ SNDP Shan interestsCentre-right Tai-Leng Nationalities Development Partyတိုင်းလိုင်(ရှမ်းနီ)အမျိုးသားများ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ TNDP Shan-Ni Interests Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin Stateစည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးနှင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ ကချင်ပြည်နယ် UDPKS Kachin interestsCentre-right Wa National Unity Partyဝ အမျိုးသား စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ WNUP Wa interests Militaryတပ်မ​တော် — Militarist Independents — 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 Kuomintang in Burma 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 National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma National Council of the Union of Burma National Unity Government of Myanmar

See also

Assembly of the Union Elections in Myanmar

References

External links List of political parties registered for the 2015 Myanmar general election