Candidates representing the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) performed the best in the Yangon municipal election. The poll was held on March 31, in which NLD won 89 of the 105 seats available. According to a report in The Irrawaddy, a total of 273 candidates competed for a mixture of township-level municipal committee seats, township committee chairmanships and seats on the executive board of the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC). Of those competing, 160 were independents, 90 from the NLD and 23 from the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). The independent candidates won 16 of the seats on offer, while the USDP was unsuccessful in all of its seats. Monitoring groups estimate the voter turnout was as low as 10 percent, although three million people had the right to vote.