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1st LD: Myanmar's election commission announces 1st series of election result

Xinhua, November 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) Monday released the first series of the result of the general election held on Sunday following the opening of the election results center in Nay Pyi Taw.

According to the first series of the result, candidates of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) won 12 seats with the House of Representatives (Lower House) from their respective constituencies in Yangon region.

Besides, NLD candidates won three seats with the region parliament, while the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won one seat of the same, bringing the total so far to 12 seats of the House of Representatives secured by the NLD, three seats of the Region Parliament by NLD and one seat by USDP.

The following series of the result will be successively announced by the commission for six different times daily until completion, UEC Chairman U Tin Aye told the center during the opening ceremony. Endit