UNION OF BURMA
LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 27 MAY 1990
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Elections to the People's Assembly
Source: The Online Burma Library

In May 1989 the ruling military junta in Burma, the State Law and 
Order Restoration Council (SLORC), decreed that elections would be 
held for the People's Assembly (Pyithu Hluttaw). These were held on 
27 May 1990 and were generally held to be free and fair. The 
elections were won with a commanding majority by the National 
League for Democracy (NLD), led by the democratic opposition leader 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. 


NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS
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Eligible voters:                              20,818,313
Votes cast:                                   15,112,524  72.6
Invalid votes:                                 1,858,918  12.3
Valid votes:                                  13,253,606  87.7
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Party                                         Votes       %   Seats
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Arakan League for Democracy                      160,783  01.2   11
Chin National League for Democracy                51,187  00.4    3
Democratic Organisation for Kayan 
 National Unity                                   16,553  00.1    2
Kachin State National Congress for Democracy      13,994  00.1    3
Kayah State Nationalities League for
 Democracy                                        11,664  00.1    2
Mon National Democratic Front                    138,572  01.0    5
Naga Hills Regional Progressive Party             10,612  00.1    2
National Democratic Party for Human Rights       128,129  01.0    4
National League for Democracy                  7,943,622  58.7  392
National Unity Party                           2,805,559  21.2   10
Party for National Democracy                      72,672  00.5    3
Shan Nationalities League for Democracy          222,821  01.7   23
Ta-ang (Palaung) National League for Democracy    16,553  00.1    2
Union Poah National Organisation                  35,389  00.3    3
Zomi National Congress                            18,638  00.1    2
Minor parties and independents                 1,606,858  12.1   12
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Total                                         13,253,606        492
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The National Unity Party was the renamed former ruling party, the 
Burma Socialist Programme Party, and was supported by the SLORC. 
Apparently taken aback that their favoured party had polled so 
poorly, the SLORC refused to recognise the results of the election, 
and the Assembly was not allowed to convene. The NLD was banned and 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under housed arrest, where she 
remained until May 2002.