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Polls close in historic Myanmar election
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Elections officials in Myanmar sort through hundreds of ballots Sunday after polls closed in a historic parliamentary by-election.
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in parliament - after spending much of the last two decades in confinement for opposing the country's ruling generals.
By-elections were held to fill 45 vacant parliamentary seats.
They are part of a sudden flowering of democracy in Myanmar, which for decades had been under the firm grasp of a military junta.
It's not clear when all votes will be counted and the official result announced.
Andrew Raven, Reuters
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