Next Myanmar general election

Myanmar's military government plans to hold a general election for elected seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw and the Pyithu Hluttaw of the Assembly of the Union, currently dissolved, on a date to be determined. The planned election would be the first after the 2021 military coup d'état. Though military ruler Min Aung Hlaing initially promised to hold the election by August 2023, the military has since indefinitely delayed the election in the face of increasing violence.

Since the coup, the military has ruled the country under a state of emergency, initially declared by Acting President Myint Swe for one year and extended seven times by six-month periods, currently set to expire on 1 August 2025. The constitution requires elections be held within six months of the end of the state of emergency. Min Aung Hlaing has provided different time frames for the election three times; an exact date has never been set. Most recently, in March 2025, Min Aung Hlaing suggested a possible December 2025 or January 2026 election date. This timeline has been reaffirmed despite the 2025 Myanmar earthquake. The election is expected to be a sham election intended to legitimize continued military rule. A census that will be used for the election was conducted in October 2024.

In January 2023, the military enacted a new electoral law tightening the requirements for party registration, banning the participation of people convicted of a crime including Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint, and switching from a first-past-the-post to a proportional system. Analysts see the changes as intended to improve the electoral performance of the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party, which performed poorly in the free and fair 2020 election. Most opposition to the USDP will be seriously weakened under the new rules. Added to the previously existing 25% reserved seats to the military, the switch to proportional representation would allow it to govern with just over a third of the popular vote. The National League for Democracy, which was removed from power in the coup, announced in February 2023 that it would not register under the new law, and was declared dissolved by the election commission the following month. The second-largest opposition party, the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, similarly announced it would not participate in the election.