SSPC cancels elections in 2 wards and 84 village tracts in Chin State
5 December 2025 — The Union Election Commission (UEC) of the State Security and Peace Commission (SSPC) announced that the polls would not be held in two wards and 84 village-tract groups despite the planned Phase 1 and Phase 2 elections in Chin State.
The announcement stated that the UEC had conducted a further review of wards and village-tract groups where conditions are not conducive to holding a free and fair election, leading to the decision to cancel the polls in the aforementioned areas.
The SSPC’s UEC had previously announced on 20 August that the Phase 1 election would be held on 28 December in Hakha and Tedim towns, Chin State. The Phase 2 election, covering townships such as Falam, Tonzang, and Thantlang, was subsequently announced on 20 October.
However, following the additional scrutiny of areas where conditions for a free and fair election were deemed absent, it was determined that the election would not proceed in the two wards and 84 village-tract groups in Chin State.
Furthermore, across the country, elections will be cancelled in:
- Phase 1 areas (including Chin State): 133 wards and 1,306 village-tract groups.
- Phase 2 areas: 18 wards and 1,464 village-tract groups.
It has also been learned that in Hakha town, the SSPC has been requiring civil servants and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to cast advance votes since 1 December.
The lists of areas where elections cannot be held under Phase 1 and Phase 2 also include:
- 2 wards and 84 village tracts in Chin State,
- 15 wards and 91 village tracts in Kachin State,
- 6 wards and 45 village tracts in Kayah State,
- 27 wards and 129 village tracts in Kayin State,
- 55 wards and 847 village tracts in Sagaing Region,
- 6 wards and 77 village tracts in Tanintharyi Region,
- 197 village tracts in Bago Region,
- 23 wards and 664 village tracts in Magway Region,
- 4 wards and 232 village tracts in Mandalay Region,
- 140 village tracts in Mon State,
- 6 wards and 65 in Rakhine State, 17 wards
- 195 village tracts in Shan State and
- 4 village tracts in Ayeyarwady Region.
| State/Region | Wards | Village-Tract Groups |
| Kachin State | 15 | 91 |
| Kayah State | 6 | 45 |
| Kayin State | 27 | 129 |
| Chin State | 2 | 84 |
| Sagaing Region | 55 | 847 |
| Tanintharyi Region | 6 | 77 |
| Bago Region | 0 | 197 |
| Magway Region | 23 | 664 |
| Mandalay Region | 4 | 232 |
| Mon State | 0 | 140 |
| Rakhine State | 6 | 65 |
| Shan State | 17 | 195 |
| Ayeyarwady Region | 0 | 4 |
Updates on 4 December 2025
1. Military-scheduled election status in Chin State
4 December 2025 — The SSPC (State Security and Peace Commission) military administration has announced the schedule for its forthcoming election, stipulating that polling will proceed in five townships and will not be held in four townships in Chin State.
- Townships Scheduled for Election: Hakha, Thantlang, Falam, Tedim, and Tonzang.
- Townships Excluded from Election: Paletwa, Kanpetlet, Mindat, and Matupi.
2. Implementation phases for scheduled townships
Further partitioning the election effort, the five scheduled townships are categorized into implementation phases, designated as Phase 1 and Phase 2.
- Phase 1 Election townships: Hakha and Tedim.
- Townships Excluded from Both Phases (I and II): Thantlang, Falam, and Tonzang are currently not included in either the announced Phase 1 or Phase 2 of the election rollout.
3. Voting logistics and early voter turnout
Details regarding the logistics for the Phase 1 election in Chin State are as follows:
- Hakha township: Designated with 10 polling stations. The number of advance votes already cast exceeds 350.
- Tedim township: Designated with 6 polling stations. The number of advance votes already cast exceeds 100.
4. Military resupply operations via airdrop
Recent military resupply missions executed via airdrop have been documented in the region:
- 1 December 2025 (Tedim): The military’s Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 269, based in Tedim town, received a significant airdrop consisting of 32 bundles of ammunition, 30 bundles of rations, 18 bundles of medical supplies, and 4 empty bundles.
- 3 December 2025 (Thantlang): The military base in Thantlang town received an airdrop that included 8 bundles of rations and 7 bundles of warm clothing.
Updates on 14 December 2025
Status of the Upcoming Elections in Chin State
1. Election Phases and Schedule
Of the nine townships located within Chin State, the election process is organized into the following phases:
- Phase 1: Scheduled for 28 December 2025, this phase will be conducted in two townships with 16 polling stations established for the vote.
- Phase 2: Scheduled for 11 January 2026. It has been confirmed that Chin State will not be included in this second phase of the election.
2. Township Status Summary
The current electoral status of the nine townships in Chin State is as follows:
- Phase 1 townships: 2 townships.
- Phase 2 townships: 0 townships.
- Excluded townships (Unable to hold elections): 4 townships.
- Remaining townships: 3 townships.
3. Comprehensive List of townships
The nine administrative townships within Chin State are:
(a) Falam township
(b) Kanpetlet township
(c) Tonzang township
(d) Tedim township
(e) Matupi township
(f) Mindat township
(g) Paletwa township
(h) Hakha township
(i) Thantlang township
4. Phase 1 Election Details for Chin State
The two townships designated for participation in Phase 1 of the election, scheduled for 28 December 2025, are as follows:
(a) Hakha township
(b) Tedim township
5. Administrative and Eligibility Overview
Detailed demographics and official status for the Phase 1 townships are outlined below:
- Hakha township: Although the township has a total population of 53,666, comprising 8 wards and 31 village tracts, official declarations state that elections will not be conducted within any of the 31 village tracts.
- Tedim township: Despite having a population of 100,988, with 8 wards and 55 village tracts, it has been formally announced that the election cannot be held across the 55 village tracts.
6. Exclusion from Phase 2 Elections
It has been confirmed that Chin State will not participate in Phase 2 of the elections, which is scheduled for 11 January 2026.
8. Townships Where Elections Cannot Be Conducted
The following four townships within Chin State have been identified as unable to hold elections:
(a) Paletwa township
(b) Matupi township
(c) Kanpetlet township
(d) Mindat township
9. Demographic Details and Official Declaration for Excluded townships
On 14 September 2025, an official announcement was made stating that elections cannot be held in these four townships. The administrative and demographic data for these areas are as follows:
- Paletwa township: Population of 107,119; consisting of 7 wards and 95 village tracts.
- Matupi township: Population of 58,043; consisting of 10 wards and 62 village tracts.
- Kanpetlet township: Population of 24,341; consisting of 6 wards and 26 village tracts.
- Mindat township: Population of 47,214; consisting of 8 wards and 45 village tracts.
10. Townships with No Official Election Status Announcement
As of now, there has been no official declaration regarding the eligibility or exclusion of the following three townships:
(a) Falam township
(b) Thantlang township
(c) Tonzang township
11. Demographic Details for Pending townships
The demographic and administrative data for the three townships awaiting status confirmation are as follows:
- Falam township: Population of 55,856; consisting of 14 wards and 84 village tracts.
- Thantlang township: Population of 55,518; consisting of 5 wards and 36 village tracts.
- Tonzang township: Population of 35,997; consisting of 4 wards and 31 village tracts.
| List of villages where elections cannot be held in Hakha and Tedim townships | ||||||
| No. | Tedim Township villages | No. | Hakha Township villages List | |||
| 1 | Anlangh | အန်းလန့် | 1 | Bualtak | ဘွာလ်တပ် | |
| 2 | Buan | ဘွင် | 2 | Buanlung | ဘွန်လုံး | |
| 3 | Buanli | ဘွန်လီ | 3 | Bungtuah | ဘုံသွ | |
| 4 | Buanman | ဘွင်မံ | 4 | Cangva | ကျန်ဗား | |
| 5 | Bukphil | ဘုတ်ဖီရ် | 5 | Chuncung | ချွန်ကျုံး | |
| 6 | Bumzang | ဘုမ်ဇန် | 6 | Dauchim | ဒါအိုချိမ်း | |
| 7 | Cingpikot | ကျိန်းပီးကွတ် | 7 | Dongva | ဒေါင်ဗား | |
| 8 | Dampi | ဒမ်ပီး | 8 | Dumva | ဒွမ်ဗား | |
| 9 | Dimpi | ဒိမ်ပီး | 9 | Farrawn | ဖါရွန်း | |
| 10 | Dolluang | ဒေါ်လွင် | 10 | Haiphai | ဟိုင်ဖိုင် | |
| 11 | Gamlai | ဂမ်လိုင် | 11 | Hniarlawn | နှီရ်လောန်း | |
| 12 | Gamngai | ဂမ်ငိုင် | 12 | Hranhring | ဟရန်ဟရိန်း | |
| 13 | Haupi | ဟောက်ပီး | 13 | Khuabe | ခွါဘဲ | |
| 14 | Heilei | ဟေလေး | 14 | Khuapi | ခွာပီး | |
| 15 | Kahngen | ကဂင် | 15 | Leipi | လေပီး | |
| 16 | Kaptel | ကပ်တဲလ် | 16 | Loklung | လောက်လုံး | |
| 17 | Kawilam | ကွေးလမ်း | 17 | Lungkhin | လုံခင်း | |
| 18 | Khiangzang | ခိန်းဇန် | 18 | Lungrang | လုံရန်း | |
| 19 | Khuasak | ခေါ်ဆပ် | 19 | Lungtar | လုံသာရ် | |
| 20 | Lailo | လိုင်လိုး | 20 | Malsawm | မာလ်ဆောမ် | |
| 21 | Lailui | တွာလ်ဇန် | 21 | Phaipha (A) | ဖိုင်ဖာ (က) | |
| 22 | Laitui | လိုင်တွီး | 22 | Rinpi | ရင်ပီး | |
| 23 | Lamzang | လမ်းဇန် | 23 | Ruan | ရွာန်း | |
| 24 | Limkhai | လိမ်ခိုင် | 24 | Sakta | ဆတ္တား | |
| 25 | Mualbe | ဇန်ဇောလ် | 25 | Sumsen | ဆွမ်ဆင် | |
| 26 | Muallum | မွာလ်နွမ်း (ခ) | 26 | Tinam | သီနမ်း | |
| 27 | Muizawl | မွီဇောလ် | 27 | Tiphul | သီဖူလ်း | |
| 28 | Pakzang | ပတ်ဇန် | 28 | Vanhar | ဗန်ဟား | |
| 29 | Pangsak | ပန့်ဆပ် | 29 | Zokhua | ဇိုးခွါး | |
| 30 | Phaiza | ဖိုင်ယား | 30 | Surkhua | ဆူရ်ခွား ( Sai Lung Thar and Sa Lung Phu Block) | |
| 31 | Phunom | ဖူနွမ်း | ||||
| 32 | Pimpih | ပင်းပီး | ||||
| 33 | Saizang | ဆိုင်းဇန် | ||||
| 34 | Sezang | ဆဲဇန် | ||||
| 35 | Suangphei | ဆွောင်းဖေ | ||||
| 36 | Suangpi | ဆွောင်းပီး | ||||
| 37 | Suangsang | ဆွောင်းဆန် | ||||
| 38 | Suangzang | ဆွောင်းဇန် | ||||
| 39 | Teeklui | တက်လွီး | ||||
| 40 | Thalmual | ထာလ်မွလ် (သစ်) | ||||
| 41 | Thangzang | ထန်းဇန် | ||||
| 42 | Thuklai | ထုတ်လိုင် | ||||
| 43 | Tualmu | တွာလ်မူး | ||||
| 44 | Tuidil | တွီးဒိလ်း | ||||
| 45 | Tuipi | တွီးပီး | ||||
| 46 | Tuitawh | တွီးတော့ | ||||
| 47 | Tuithang | တွီးထန် | ||||
| 48 | Tungzang | တုန်းဇန် | ||||
| 49 | Valvum | ဗာလ်ဂွမ်း | ||||
| 50 | Vangteh | ဗန်းတဲ့ | ||||
| 51 | Vongmual | ဝေါင်မွာလ် | ||||
| 52 | Zimpi | ဇိမ်ပီး | ||||
(Names of villages will be updated if incorrect or changed)
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