YANGON, Myanmar, April 1 (UPI) -- The leader of Myanmar's main opposition party calling for democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, appeared to have won a parliamentary seat Sunday, her party said.
Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy who was freed from 20 years of house arrest in 2010, was running in a district south of the former capital city of Yangon. Soon after the polls closed, her party said she had easily won, but official results haven't been published, the BBC said.
Officials said it could take days to count the ballots and announce results, The New York Times said.
Even before voting began, allegations began flying about voting irregularities, such as registered voters not being on voting lists and dead people's names on the official lists, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Suu Kyi won a Nobel peace prize for her opposition to the military junta that evolved into the Union Solidarity and Development Party. In 1990, the last time the country held multi-party elections, Suu Kyi's party won by a landslide, but the military government nullified the election and placed her under house arrest.
Regardless of opposition gains among the 45 seats up for grabs, they are dwarfed in the 664-seat parliament, the reports said.
