Myanmar general election, 2015

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8 November 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

168 (of the 224) seats to the House of Nationalities
113 seats needed for a majority

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).