Burmese general election, 2015

Myanmar general election, 2015

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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   Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Thein Sein Party NLD USDP Leader since 27 September 1988 2 June 2010 Leader's seat Kawhmu Did not contest Last election Did not contest 259 R / 129 N Seats before 37 R / 4 N 212 R / 124 N Seats won 255 R / 135 N 30 R / 11 N Seat change 218 R / 131 N 182 R / 113 N
President before election Thein Sein USDP President after election Htin Kyaw NLD

Thein Sein
USDP

Htin Kyaw
NLD

General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2015, with the National League for Democracy winning a supermajority of seats in the combined national parliament. Voting occurred in all constituencies, excluding seats appointed by the military, to select Members of Assembly to seats in both the upper house (the House of Nationalities) and the lower house (the House of Representatives) of the Assembly of the Union, and State and Region Hluttaws. Ethnic Affairs Ministers were also elected by their designated electorates on the same day, although only select ethnic minorities in particular states and regions were entitled to vote for them.

These polls are the first openly-contested election held in the country since 1990, which was annulled by the military government after the National League for Democracy's (NLD) victory. The poll was preceded by the 2010 General Election, which was marred by a widespread boycott and allegations of systematic fraud by the victorious Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).

The NLD won a sweeping victory, taking 86 percent of the seats in the Assembly of the Union (235 in the House of Representatives and 135 in the House of Nationalities), well more than the 67 percent supermajority needed to ensure that its preferred candidates will be elected president and second vice president in the Presidential Electoral College. While the NLD only needed a simple majority to carry on the normal business of government, it needed at least 67 percent to outvote the combined pro-military bloc in the Presidential Electoral College (the USDP and the appointed legislators representing the military). While NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from the presidency (as both her late husband and her children are foreign citizens), she is the de facto head of government, after being appointed to a newly created office, the State Counsellor of Myanmar.

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