The National League for Democracy says it has won around 70 percent of seats across Kachin State, while the Union Solidarity and Development Party has claimed 16 seats. Full official results are not expected until tomorrow, however.
In the state capital Myitkyina, the NLD says it won the Pyithu Hluttaw seat by a considerable margin, with 48,986 votes to the Union Solidarity and Development Party’s 26,812. In the Amyotha Hluttaw the NLD says it received 49,882 votes while the USDP won 18,882.
The NLD also claims to have won both seats in Myitkyina for the Kachin State Hluttaw with 25,468 votes against the USDP’s 8354 in Myitkyina 1 and, in a closer race, with 20,805 versus the USDP’s 18,879 in Myitkyina 2.
It lost three seats in Injan-gyan township but took three in Tanai, where the USDP also won one state hluttaw seat, said U Zaw Myo Win, an NLD official in Myitkyina.
An NLD official said the party believed it had won 70pc of seats in the state, but the figures have not yet been verified by the Union Election Commission.
U Brang Li from Kachin State Democratic Party said official figures for the entire state are unlikely to be released until November 12.
Weak infrastructure combined with the sheer size of the state will delay results, he said.
The KSDP says it has won four seats in the state hluttaw. “We have done well in the state, even though we lost in many places,” U Brang Li said.
“Although we lost, we are going to hold a meeting about how we can further the development of Kachin State and our party will contribute as much as we can.”
The only official results from Kachin State are for Injanyang, where the Kachin State Democracy Party’s U Lamar Naw Aung won the Pyithu Hluttaw seat with just 439 votes, as voting was cancelled in 61 of 63 village tracts in the township. The party also won the two state hluttaw seats for Injanyang.
The USDP, meanwhile, said it had won around one-quarter of seats in Kachin State. It is claiming victory in five seats in the Pyithu Hluttaw, one in the Amyotha Hluttaw and 10 seats in the state hluttaw, said U Soe Thein, Kachin State secretary for the ruling party.
In Chibwe, Tsawlaw, Machanbaw and Nagmung the party says it won the Pyithu Hluttaw and both state hluttaw seats, while it is also claiming the Pyithu Hluttaw seat of Khaunglamphu and the state hluttaw seats of Khaunglamphu 2 and Tanai 1.
The ruling party also claims to have taken Amyotha Hluttaw seat 5, which combines Chipwe, Tsawlaw and Injangyan townships.
U Soe Thein could not confirm whether the USDP had won any other seats.
Earlier he told The Myanmar Times the party had picked up a Pyithu Hluttaw seat in Bhamo.
The NLD confirmed it had lost in Chipwe and Injangyan but said it had received no news on Machanbaw, Tsawlaw, Nagmung or Khaunglamphu due to communication and transport issues.
