1990 Myanmar general election

General elections were held in Myanmar on 27 May 1990, the first multi-party elections since 1960, after which the country had been ruled by a military dictatorship. The elections were for a parliament-sized constitutional committee to draft a new constitution.

27 May 1990

All 492 seats in the Constitutional Committee
247 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

72.6%

	First party	Second party	Third party
		NUP	SNLD
Leader	Aung San Suu Kyi	U Tha Gyaw	Khun Htun Oo
Party	NLD	NUP	SNLD
Seats won	392	10	23
Popular vote	7,943,622	2,805,559	222,821
Percentage	59.9%	21.2%	1.7%

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The result was a landslide victory for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), which won 392 of the 492 seats. However, the military junta refused to recognise the results and continued ruling the country until 2011. Voter turnout was 72.6%.

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