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Myanmar election results: Suu Kyi party wins 56 of the 57 parliamentary seats

Myanmar election results: Suu Kyi party wins 56 of the 57 parliamentary seats

By :  DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-11-09 13:37 GMT
Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party has won 56 out of 57 seats in the first results in Myanmar's historic elections, with a clean sweep so far in its Yangon stronghold (Photo: AP)
Leader of Myanmar's National League for Democracy party, Aung San Suu Kyi, delivers a speech with party patron Tin Oo from a balcony of her party's headquarters in Yangon (Photo: AP)
Supporters began to gather at the party's downtown headquarters to watch the results on a big screen (Photo: AP)
Among them were many first-time voters, while others had last voted a quarter of a century ago only to see their hopes crushed by the military when it ignored the results, an outcome they fervently hope will not be repeated this time around (Photo:
Sunday's vote saw enthusiasm for democracy soaring among the 30 million registered voters, many of whom began queueing before dawn to cast their ballot (Photo: AP)
Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party hoovered up nearly the entire first batch of seats to be declared from Myanmar's election (Photo: AP)
Supporters of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party cheer as they watch the result of general election on an LED screen outside the party’s headquarters (Photo: AP)
Myanmar election results: Suu Kyi party wins 56 of the 57 parliamentary seats

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