Win Htein, a senior NLD MP elected in the by-elections of April 2012, says that parliament is now "very lively".
Remarkably, 10 of the first 12 by-elections of the current Parliament are to be for seats held by Labour held, against one in a Tory constituency and one in the Sinn Fein stronghold of West Belfast.
And after the successful and relatively fair by-elections of April 2011, in which Ms Suu Kyi and more than 40 NLD colleagues won seats, more by-elections were due to be held in 2014.
In 2010 the NLD boycotted the elections; Win Tin thought it should do the same in the by-elections of 2012, even though it won nearly all the seats it contested.
He also ensured that the by-elections of April 2012, the first elections since 1990 in which the NLD was allowed to take part, were free and fair.Those by-elections proved that the iconic democracy advocate has lost none of her allure, even after decades of official attempts to discredit her.
Take a look instead at the first by-election of the 2010 Parliament, and of Ed Miliband's leadership – which also happens to have been in Oldham.
Under him Labour lost in London, lost in Crewe and, in the by-election of July 24th, lost in Glasgow East, hitherto an archetypal rotten borough.
COMMON sense is taken seriously in Oldham East and Saddleworth, a constituency which combines a gritty former mill town with pretty Pennine villages, and which on January 13th will hold the first parliamentary by-election of the coalition era.
Instead, she poured her energies into helping her son-in-law, Jo Grimond, lead the party's hesitant revival that began with her son Mark's victory in the Torrington by-election of 1958.
A broadcast was made on 21 February 2013, which was exactly a week before the most important parliamentary by-election of the parliament.
She made it into the parliament in the by-elections of 2012.
