Election 2020

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Call for investigation of voter fraud
Election 2020
26 January 2021
People arrested for protesting against the UEC
Election expenses of 65 MPs is over 3,500 lakh kyats in Naypyidaw
President Win Myint calls for cooperation among all sides in Rakhine state conflict
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Election 2020
15 December 2020
NLD and USDP to file mutual objections to election
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Election 2020
15 December 2020
NLD preparing to hold talks with ethnic political parties
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Election 2020
13 December 2020
Teachers who caught virus while on polling station duty will get compensation
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Election 2020
11 December 2020
Ten NLD candidates report 70 m Kyat election expenses
Supporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party ride in trucks during a campaign rally in Naypyidaw on October 21, 2020, ahead of the November 8 general election. Photo: Thet Aung/AFP
Election 2020
11 December 2020
10 NLD candidates in Nay Pyi Taw spent about 70 m Kyat for campaigns
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Election 2020
10 December 2020
UEC takes issues with DNP
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Election 2020
10 December 2020
Court sentences woman to nine months in prison for defamation
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Election 2020
03 December 2020
Yangon region election commission accepts evidence in USDP case

Youth & Elections

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This photo taken on June 20, 2020 shows Wai Yan Min Khin, 20, a Muslim youth, working in a machine shop in Meiktila, the Bamar Buddhist heartlands of central Myanmar. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Election 2020
07 November 2020
Next generation of Myanmar youth look to election and beyond
(File) A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 08 November 2015. Photo: EPA
Election 2020
11 October 2020
Assessments being made about first-time youth voters in Myanmar
Enthusiastic young voters practised how to vote at a mock polling station at an exciting event. Photo: Embassy of Denmark in Myanmar
Election 2020
14 February 2020
Mobilizing Young, First-time Voters is an Investment in Myanmar’s Future
SNDP party members in Nam Kham, Shan State. Photo: SNDP
Election 2020
22 October 2019
SNDP will field 45 per cent of candidates with youths and women 

Women & Elections

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Election 2020
16 October 2020
Daw Htoot May meets with Rakhine people as she campaigns
This photo taken on August 26, 2020 shows Thet Thet Khine, chairman of the People's Pioneer Party (PPP), talking during an interview in her house in Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Election 2020
21 September 2020
Ousted NLD MP to take on her former party
Election 2020
09 August 2020
PNO to field women candidates in upcoming elections
Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (C) shakes hands with ethnic women after her trip to Shan State at the Hehoe airport on February 13, 2020. Photo: Thet Aung/AFP
Election 2020
05 July 2020
Question over whether we will see more female candidates in the Myanmar election

Election Features

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A woman votes at a polling station in Yangon on October 29, 2020, as advance voting in the country's elections began for elderly people. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Election 2020
06 November 2020
ETHNIC VOTE: How might it affect the Myanmar elections?
(File) In this file photo taken on January 25, 2019, Mro ethnic women with children displaced from the surge of fighting between ethnic armed rebel group of the Arakan Army and government troops take refuge at a compound of a Buddhist pagoda are seen during a government-organised visit for journalists in Buthidaung township in the restive Rakhine state. Photo: AFP
Election 2020
25 October 2020
Myanmar vote ban extinguishes hope for some ethnic minorities
Supporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party on a motorcade pass supporters of the opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), seen at right, during a campaign in Wundwin, near Mandalay on September 19, 2020. Photo: Kyaw Thet Zin/AFP
Election 2020
20 October 2020
Questions raised as pandemic hampers Myanmar election campaigning
This photo taken on September 12, 2020 shows People's Pioneer Party's (PPP) candidate Myo Min Tun talking to the media in his office in Mandalay, ahead of the November 8 general election. Photo: Ye Naing Ye/AFP
Election 2020
05 October 2020
'I don't want to lie': Gay pioneer stands in Myanmar election
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