1951–52 Burmese general election
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General elections were held in
The first elections since independence, they saw the
colonial Burma.[1]
Results
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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| Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League | 147 | –26 | |||
| AFPFL allies[a] | 52 | +33 | |||
| People's Democratic Front[b] | 19 | New | |||
| Independent Arakanese Parliamentary Group | 6 | New | |||
| Greater Burma Party | 0 | New | |||
| People's Peace Front | 0 | New | |||
| Union of Burma League | 0 | New | |||
| United Chin Freedom League | 0 | New | |||
| Independents | 15 | +13 | |||
| Vacant | 11 | – | |||
| Total | 250 | +40 | |||
| Total votes | 1,500,000 | – | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 8,000,000 | 18.75 | |||
| Source: Nohlen et al. | |||||
- ^ Included the Burma Socialist Party, the All-Burma Peasants Organisation, the Burma Muslim Congress, the Kachin National Congress (7 seats), the Union Karen League (13), the Chin Hills Congress, the United Hill People's Congress, the All-Burma Women's Freedom League, the All-Burma Federation of Trade Organisations and the Arakanese Muslim Association (3).[4][5]
- ^ Alliance of the Burma Workers and Peasants Party (12 seats), the Patriotic Alliance and the Burma Democratic Party.[5]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-521-56443-4.
- ^ Hoffmann, Mark S (1954). World almanac and book of facts, Volume 69. Newspaper Enterprise Association. p. 338.
- ISBN 978-0-8157-7581-2.
- ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ^ a b Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, pp106–154
