The voting is over - and the counting has begun.<br/> <br />Elections officials in Myanmar sort through hundreds of ballots Sunday after polls closed in a historic parliamentary by-election.<br/> <br />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.<br/> <br />By-elections were held to fill 45 vacant parliamentary seats.<br/> <br />They are part of a sudden flowering of democracy in Myanmar, which for decades had been under the firm grasp of a military junta.<br/> <br />It's not clear when all votes will be counted and the official result announced.<br/> <br />Andrew Raven, Reuters
