Asia-Pacific

Myanmar announces some elected parliamentary representatives

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-11-08 12:58

Election workers count votes at a polling station in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov 7, 2010. Myanmar on Sunday held the first multi-party general elections in two decades. [Photo/Xinhua]

YANGON -- Myanmar's Union Election Commission Sunday announced the first batch of 57 candidates as being elected as parliamentary representatives spread among three levels of parliaments, the state radio and television reported in a night broadcast hours after the country's multi-party general election ended in the afternoon on the day.

The 57 elected parliament representatives include 55 from 55 constituencies where there is only a single candidate each running for the election, while the remaining two won the seats.

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Of the 57 elected parliament representatives, 12 are house of representatives, 8 are house of nationalities and 37 are region or state representatives.

The elected house of representatives include U Soe Thein, Minister of Industry-2 and U Maung Maung Swe, Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, while the region or state parliament representatives include U Thein Aung, Minister of Forestry, and U Nyan Win, Foreign Minister.

Of the 57 elected parliament representatives, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) accounted for 41, while the rest are shared by Pa-Oh National Organization, Kayin State Democracy and Development Party, Taaung (Palaung) National Party and Wa National Unity Party.

In the just-ended general election, a total of 29 million qualified voters across the country cast ballots at 60,000 polling stations.

Nationally, a total of over 3,000 parliamentary candidates from 37 political parties including 82 independents took part in the competition across the country's seven regions and seven ethnic states for 1,159 parliamentary seats, of which 326 are reserved for the house of representatives, 168 for the house of Nationalities and 665 for region or state parliament.