Burmese general election, 1951–52

← 1947

June 1951 – April 1952

1956 →

All 250 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
126 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

18.75%

	First party	Second party

Leader	U Nu
Party	AFPFL	PDF
Seats won	147	19
Seat change	26	New

Prime Minister before election

U Nu
AFPFL

Prime Minister-elect

U Nu
AFPFL

General elections were held in Burma over several months between June 1951 and April 1952 due to internal conflict within the country.

The first elections since independence, they saw the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL) win 60% of the vote and 199 out of 250 seats. Voter turnout was low at 20%, as only 1.5 million voters out of an eligible 8 million participated. It was the lowest turnout for a Burmese election since the 1920s boycotts in colonial Burma.

^a AFPFL allies included the Burma Socialist Party, the All-Burma Peasants Organisation, the Burma Muslim Congress, the Kachin National Congress (7 seats), the Union Karen League (13), the Chin Hills Congress, the United Hill People's Congress, the All-Burma Women's Freedom League and the All-Burma Federation of Trade Organisations, the Arakanese Muslim Association (3).

^b The People's Democratic Front was an alliance of the Burma Workers and Peasants Party (12 seats), the Patriotic Alliance and the Burma Democratic Party.

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