The Burma Democratic Party (; BDP) was a political party in
Burma
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...
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History
The party was established by
Dobama Asiayone founder
U Ba Sein in the early 1950s.
[Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p118] The party had some support from Buddhist monks and, seeing itself as a right-wing alternative to the
Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, it joined the
People's Democratic Front to contest
1951–52 general elections, with the alliance winning 19 seats.
Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An ex ...
, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p614
It ran alone in the
1956 elections, but received just 2.9% of the vote and failed to win a seat. Its vote share fell to 0.1% in the
1960 elections, in which it again failed to enter Parliament.
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References
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Defunct political parties in Myanmar