# List of political parties in Myanmar

This is a list of political parties in Myanmar (also known as Burma).

## Parties represented in the 2016–2021 Assembly of the Union

| Party | Abbr. | Seats on the State Administration Council | Seats in Local Hluttaws | Position |
| National League for Democracy (banned since 2023) အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ် | NLD | 0 / 18 | 476 / 879 | Centrist Liberalism |
| Union Solidarity and Development Party ပြည်ထောင်စုကြံ့ခိုင်ရေးနှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ | USDP | 4 / 18 | 73 / 879 | Far-right Buddhist nationalism Conservatism |
| Arakan National Party ရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီ | ANP | 0 / 18 | 22 / 879 | Far-right Rakhine nationalism |
| Shan Nationalities League for Democracy ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် | SNLD | 0 / 18 | 25 / 879 | Centre-left Shan interests |
| Ta'ang National Party တအာင်းအမျိုးသားပါတီ | TNP | 0 / 18 | 7 / 879 | Palaung interests |
| Zomi Congress for Democracy ဇိုမီး ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် | ZCD | 0 / 18 | 2 / 879 | Zomi interests |
| Mon National Party မွန်အမျိုးသားပါတီ | MNP | 0 / 18 | 2 / 879 | Mon nationalism |
| National Unity Party တိုင်းရင်းသားစည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ | NUP | 0 / 18 | 0 / 879 | Centre-left Federalism Nationalism Populism |
| Pa-O National Organisation ပအိုဝ်း အမျိုးသား အဖွဲ့ချုပ် | PNO | 0 / 18 | 6 / 879 | Pa'O interests |
| Lisu National Development Party လီဆူးအမျိုးသားဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ | LNDP | 0 / 18 | 2 / 879 | Lisu interests |
| Kachin State Democracy Party ကချင်ပြည်နယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ | KSDP | 0 / 18 | 3 / 879 | Kachin interests |
| Kokang Democracy and Unity Party ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ 果敢民主团结党 | KDUP | 0 / 18 | 1 / 879 | Kokang nationalism Anti-communism Right-wing |
| Wa Democratic Party ‘ဝ’ ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ | WDP | 0 / 18 | 2 / 879 | Centrist Wa interests |
| All Mon Region Democracy Party မွန်ဒေသလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ | AMRDP | 0 / 18 | 1 / 879 | Mon interests |
| Democratic Party ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ | DP | 0 / 18 | 1 / 879 | Liberal democracy |
| Kayin People's Party ကရင်ပြည်သူ့ပါတီ | KPP | 1 / 18 | 1 / 879 | Karen interests |
| La Hu National Development Party လားဟူ အမျိုးသား ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ပါတီ | LHNDP | 0 / 18 | 1 / 879 | Lahu interests |
| Shan Nationalities Democratic Party ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ | SNDP | 0 / 18 | 1 / 879 | Shan interests Centre-right |
| Tai-Leng Nationalities Development Party တိုင်းလိုင်(ရှမ်းနီ)အမျိုးသားများ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ | TNDP | 0 / 18 | 1 / 879 | Shan-Ni Interests |
| Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးနှင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ ကချင်ပြည်နယ် | UDPKS | 0 / 18 | 1 / 879 | Kachin interests Centre-right |
| Wa National Unity Party ဝ အမျိုးသား စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ | WNUP | 0 / 18 | 1 / 879 | Wa interests |
| Military တပ်မ​တော် | — | 9 / 18 | 216 / 879 | Militarist |
| Independents | — | 0 / 18 | 1 / 879 | |
| Vacant | — | 0 | 14 | |

## Unrepresented parties

* Arakan Liberation Party
* Arakan National Council
* Chin National Front
* Chin National Party
* Chin Progressive Party
* Communist Party of Burma (banned)
* Confederate Farmers Party
* Dawei Nationalities Party
* Democracy and Human Rights Party
* Democracy and Peace Party
* Democratic Party for a New Society
* Ethnic National Development Party
* Federal Union Party
* Inn National Development Party
* Kachin Independence Organization (banned)
* Karen National Party
* Karen National Union
* Karenni National Progressive Party
* Kaman National Progressive Party
* Khami National Development Party
* Lahu Democratic Union
* Modern People's Party
* Mro National Party
* Mro National Solidarity Organisation
* Myanmar Farmers Development Party
* National Democratic Force
* National Democratic Party for Development
* National Development Party
* National Development and Peace Party
* New Mon State Party
* Palaung State Liberation Front
* Peace and Diversity Party
* Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party
* People's Party of Myanmar Farmers and Workers
* Regional Development Party of Pyay
* Restoration Council of Shan State
* Shan State Progress Party
* Union Democratic Party
* United Democratic Party of Myanmar
* United Kayin League
* United Wa State Party
* Wunthanu National League for Democracy

## Defunct parties

* 21 Party
* All-Shan State Organisation
* Anti-Fascist Organisation
* Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
* Anti-Separation League
* Arakan League for Democracy
* Arakanese Muslim Association
* Arakanese National Unity Organisation
* Burma Democratic Party
* Burma for the Burmans League
* Burma Muslim Congress
* Burma Nationalist Party
* Burma Socialist Party
* Burma Socialist Programme Party
* Burma Workers Party
* Chin Hills Congress
* Chin National Organisation
* Democracy Party
* Democratic Organisation for Kayan National Unity
* Freedom Bloc
* General Council of Burmese Associations
* Graduates and Old Students Democratic Association
* Hlaing-Myat-Paw GCBA
* Home Rule Party
* Independent Arakanese Parliamentary Group
* Independent Party
* Justice Party
* Kachin National Congress
* Kamans National League for Democracy
* Karen National Association
* Karen State National Organisation
* Kayah Democratic League
* Kayah National United League
* Kayah State Nationalities League for Democracy
* Mara People's Party
* Mon National Front
* Naga Hills Regional Progressive Party
* National Parliamentary Organisation
* National United Front
* Nationalist Party
* Party for National Democracy
* Patriot's Party
* Patriotic Alliance
* Patriotic Old Comrades' League
* People's Democratic Front
* People's Educational and Cultural Development Organisation
* People's Party
* People's Peace Front
* Poor Man's Party
* Rakhine Nationalities Development Party
* Separation League
* Shan State Peasants' Organisation
* Swaraj Party
* Ta'ang National League for Democracy
* Thakins
* Union Danu League for Democracy Party
* Union Karen League
* Union National Democracy Party
* Union Party
* United GCBA
* United Hill People's Congress
* United National Pa-O Organisation
* United Nationalities League for Democracy

## Political alliances

* Federal Democracy Alliance
* Nationalities Brotherhood Federation
* United Nationalities Alliance
* United Political Parties Alliance

## Political organisations

* 88 Generation Students Group
* Myanmar Democracy Congress
* National Political Alliances League
* Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics
* United Nationalities Federal Council
* Union Solidarity and Development Association

## Governments in exile

* National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
* National Council of the Union of Burma
* National Unity Government of Myanmar