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A STUDY ON YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN MYANMAR’S GENERAL ELECTIONS 2020 (Win Zaw Khin, 2022) Win Zaw Khin This study analyzes knowledge and awareness of Youth Participation in the Myanmar Elections 2020 and youth’s knowledge on Myanmar Youth Policy. In this study, the descriptive method is used based on the primary data through online google form survey. The survey data was collected through social media platform (Facebook) from the network of the author, friends and friends of friends, thus participants were not selected systematically. It was because the survey data collection time was coinciding with 2nd wave Covid 19 pandemic therefor face to face data collection was not possible. A total of 672 respondents of youths (aged 18 to 35) from the 14 Regions and States as well as from Nay Pyi Taw Council (the Administrative Capital of Myanmar) participated in this survey. It is noteworthy that most of all youths know their eligibility to cast vote for 2020 general elections. The majority of youths already decided to vote in the 2020 general elections. However, youths did not focus much about selecting youth candidacy or representatives in both Union Level and States & Regions parliaments. Regarding the awareness about Myanmar Youth Policy, or the content of policy, it was found that only (9.1 per cent) knew the correct year of the released date for Myanmar Youth Policy, only (3.7 per cent) realized the “9 Basic Principles” and (8.0 per cent) had a knowledge about the part of political affairs under the main sectors of Youth Policy. Nearly half of the respondents (46.3 per cent) answered the correct answer for youth aged ranged 15- 35 years old. Regarding the ladder of participation, about (23 per cent) realized “Young people’s initiative, decisions made in partnership with adults, which is the highest level of the ladder. Accordingly, it would be better if that kind of idea could be tried to maintain. 2022-10-01 https://meral.edu.mm/records/9545