Burmese general election, 2010

Myanmar general election, 2010

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7 November 2010

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330 (of the 440) seats to the House of Representatives
221 seats needed for a majority 168 (of the 224) seats to the House of Nationalities
113 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
		SNDP	NUP
Leader	Thein Sein	Sai Ai Pao	Tun Yi
Party	USDP	SNDP	NUP
Leader's seat	Zabuthiri (Pyithu)	Did not stand	Did not stand
Seats won	259 R / 129 N	18 R / 3 N	12 R / 5 N

	Fourth party	Fifth party
	RNDP	NDF
Leader	Aye Maung	Khin Maung Swe
Party	RNDP	NDF
Leader's seat	Did not stand	Did not stand
Seats won	9 R / 7 N	8 R / 4 N

Prime Minister before election

Thein Sein
USDP

President-designate

Thein Sein
USDP

A general election was held in Myanmar on 7 November 2010, in accordance with the new constitution which was approved in a referendum held in May 2008. The date of the election, 7 November, was announced by the SPDC on 13 August.

The general election forms the fifth step of the seven-step "roadmap to democracy" proposed by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) in 2003, the sixth and seventh steps being the convening of elected representatives and the building of a modern, democratic nation, respectively. However, the National League for Democracy boycotted the election. The result was a sweeping victory for the Union Solidarity and Development Party, which won nearly 80% of seats contested across the upper and lower house. The United Nations expressed concern about the fairness of the election and Western countries have dismissed them as fraudulent.

Due to the strict separation of powers in the constitution, members elected to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw are automatically disqualified from their seats if they accept appointment to an executive or judicial body. As a result of this, many members elected in this election were quickly disqualified from their seats after accepting appointment to bodies such as the Cabinet of Myanmar. By-elections to fill 48 vacancies left by such appointments as well as by resignations and deaths were held 17 months later in April 2012.

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