According to Election Commission of Myanmar, the opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy (NLD), has secured a total of 490 parliamentary seats at three levels in the next term of the parliament.
Of the 490 seats out of 573 so far occupied by the NLD in Myanmar elections, 179 are in the House of Representatives (Lower House), 77 in the House of Nationalities (Upper House) and 234 in the Region or State Parliament.
Of the 47 seats taken by the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), 17 are in the House of Representatives, four in the House of Nationalities, and 26 in the Region or State Parliament in Myanmar elections.
USDP was signified by the re-winning of a seat of the House of Representatives by current Vice President U Nyan Tun, who competed in Zeegone, Bago region constituency representing the party.
The remaining 33 parliamentary seats go to some ethnic parties and two independents. Of the ethnic parties, Shan National League for Democracy (SNLD) shares the most with 18, of which 11 in the House of Representatives and 7 in the Region or State Parliament.
The commission has so far announced 573 elected parliament representatives. Of them, 216 are elected to the Houses of Representatives, 83 to the House of Nationalities and 274 to the Region or State Parliament.
The result of Myanmar elections will continue to be released by the election commission on a daily basis.
Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won her parliamentary seat. While a win of that magnitude virtually assures the National League for Democracy of electing the president as well, Suu Kyi is barred from becoming president by a constitutional hurdle inserted by the junta when it transferred power in 2011 to a quasi-civilian government.
Aung San Suu Kyi is chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar. In the 1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010, becoming one of the world’s most prominent political prisoners.
Still, she recently has declared that she will be the country’s de facto leader, acting “above the president,” if her party forms the next government.
The military, which took power in a 1962 coup and brutally suppressed several pro-democracy uprisings during its rule, gave way to a nominally civilian elected government in 2011 — with strings attached.
The army installed retired senior officers in the ruling party to fill Cabinet posts and granted itself constitutional powers, including control of powerful ministries and a quarter of seats in the 664-member two-chamber Parliament.
