# NLD wins the 2015 general election Date: 2015 ## The fact On 8 November 2015 the NLD won a landslide, the first honoured transfer toward civilian government since 1962. ## Context UEC canvassed. The Tatmadaw kept 25 percent of seats. A landslide is still ordinary rotation inside a constrained charter. 2016 State Counsellor oath is the neighbouring start. 2020 is later. Myanmar’s State Counsellor (2016–2021) was de facto civilian head under the 2008 Constitution; she did not command the Tatmadaw’s autonomous ministries, write a Bangladeshi gazette, an ICJ merits judgment, or a 2026 [Min Aung Hlaing](/people/min-aung-hlaing) amnesty. She has been detained since 1 February 2021; as of August 2026 she is under house arrest after sentence commutations, not in office. A Nobel lecture is not a clearance-operation order. An ICJ appearance is not a personal genocide conviction. A junta court sentence is not a finding that every charge was true. Allegation of a stolen 2020 count is not stored as a completed steal. A Panglong speech is not a nationwide ceasefire. A Reuters conviction is not a completed finding that the journalists planted evidence. A 2026 ICRC visit is not a release. ## Evidence and sources Union Election Commission Myanmar carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed honoured landslide is civilian rotation after decades of junta rule. ## What is established and what is not Established: an 8 November 2015 NLD landslide, independently reported as honoured. Not established: that the Tatmadaw’s reserved ministries ended, or a unique later GDP coefficient from election night. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. UEC canvassed. [Thein Sein](/people/thein-sein) later transferred. The Tatmadaw kept the 25 percent block.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies NLD wins the 2015 general election, not a later speech about NLD wins the 2015 general election. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. NLD wins the 2015 general election on 2015-11-08 is not a licence to treat every later Union Election Commission Myanmar communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average NLD wins the 2015 general election into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters chose. UEC canvassed. Thein Sein later transferred. The Tatmadaw kept the 25 percent block. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Aung San Suu Kyi: https://factrail.ai/people/aung-san-suu-kyi ## Drivers - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-election-idUSKCN0SX0A720151109 - https://www.uec.gov.mm/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-suu-election-2015