Aung San Suu Kyi’s Yangon seat won by military-proxy; How Min Aung Hlaing holds on to power in Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Yangon seat won by military-proxy

The People’s Party told DVB that it suspects errors in the counting of ballots in Kawhmu Township, Yangon Region, after voting was completed in the second round of the military’s 2025–26 elections on Sunday. Kawhmu is located 36 miles (57 km) south of the commercial capital Yangon.

Kyaw Kyaw Htwe, a candidate for the People’s Party contesting the seat in Kawhmu for the Pyithu Hluttaw, or lower house of parliament, told DVB that the military-proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)’s candidate Aung Myo Than won Kawhmu with over 30,000 votes.

He told DVB that he had only received 12,000 votes but would request the regime’s Union Election Commission (UEC) recount all ballots cast in Kawhmu, which has been held by Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party since by-elections in 2012. Suu Kyi, 80, remains in prison. Read more