AKIPRESS.COM - Myanmar will hold general elections on Sunday to choose representatives for both houses of Parliament, known as Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.

A total of 6,193 candidates from 91 parties are contesting the election.

The main fight, however, is between the opposition National League for Democracy party led by Aung San Suu Kyi, and the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, which is currently in power. It is made up of the upper house, Pyithu Hluttaw, and the lower house, Amoytha Hluttaw.

The lower house has 440 representatives, of which 330 will be elected. The remaining 110 seats, or 25 percent of the house, will be military personnel appointed by the commander-in-chief.

The upper house has 224 seats, of which 168 will be elected and 56 will be similarly appointed by the military chief.The members of the more powerful, lawmaking lower house represent 330 townships, or constituencies, in the country. For the upper house, voters choose 12 representatives from each of Myanmar's 14 states and regions.

The candidate who gets the highest number of votes is elected, even if that person did not win an absolute majority. About 30 million of Myanmar's 52 million people are eligible to vote.

However, about 500,000 minority Rohingya Muslim voters have been ruled ineligible because the government considers them to be foreigners with no citizenship. Also not allowed to vote are members of religious orders, convicts, persons legally judged to be of unsound mind and bankrupts.

The Union Election Commission, the state body conducting the polls, has introduced a number of changes for the 2015 elections that include stamps to mark ballots, tamper-proof ballot box seals that are individually numbered, and indelible ink to mark voters' fingers.

Also, domestic and international observers will be allowed in the polling stations, and results will be displayed at each polling station after ballots have been counted.