Staff members at a polling station prepare for the upcoming general elections in Yangon on Nov 7, 2015.
Photo: AFP/Ye Aung Thu
(VOvworld) – Voting is underway in Myanmar's parliamentary elections as around 30 million voters will pick among 6,065 candidates in country's first openly-contested polls in 25 years. According to the last update from the Myanmar’s UEC, 6,040 candidates representing 91 registered political parties and independent candidates are running for over 1,000 seats in parliament and elected bodies at different levels.

Among 1,163 constituencies, 330 constituencies are set to elect members of the House of Representatives, 168 constituencies to elect members of the House of Nationalities, 636 constituencies to elect regional or state parliaments and 29 constituencies to elect regional or state parliaments for ethnic groups.