Power-sharing deal on the cards as analyst claims the junta proxy is looking to appoint an ethnic leader as one of three vice-presidents

Influential abbot approached by top junta ministers with requests to secure support for the USDP from victorious Karen party

No surprises as pro-junta USDP sweeps three quarters of seats, while a symbolic victory is won for three ethnic parties who finished in the top five

State media issues warning to candidates unhappy with the election process as Aung San Suu Kyi fights the dissolution of her party

Released opposition leader picking up where her father left off as momentum grows over covening of ‘Panglong 2’ discussion

Complaints continue over illegal favouring of the junta-backed victors by election officials as one party calls for results to be nullified

NDF and DPM waiting for other parties to jump on board before making formal denouncement over allegations of vote-rigging

Report finds that illegal procedures on election day occurred but did not impact on the outcome, despite a raft of other charges brought

Deputy chairman of opposition party says he will use his voice in parliament to also push for the release of political prisoners

PM’s party rumoured to be filing a complaint to election authority over seats it lost to an opposition Arakan party last week

Toru Yamaji was threatened with a seven-year prison sentence whilst in the ‘pigsty’ cell he shared with a Burmese political prisoner

Complaints to election body carry a price tag of $1000 as opposition parties continue to cry foul of advance vote counting

PM’s party claims landslide victory as controversy still rages over allegations of voter intimidation and ballot rigging

Majority of results announced today won in one-party constituencies as the pro-junta USDP looks to be taking the lead

British ambassador Andrew Heyn defends NLD’s boycott of today’s elections and says that UK ‘won’t turn its back’ on Burma

Mixed messages about voter turnout emerging but many describe today’s atmosphere as low-key, with Rangoon streets quiet

Key positions in Burmese border town seized by breakaway Karen troops following allegations that Burmese army threatened voters at gunpoint

Offer decried as ‘choreographed tour’ by British ambassador Andrew Heyn is taken up by majority of Southeast Asian diplomats

Reporter arrested after taking photos in Myawaddy remains in detention and his belongings, including a pen camera, have been confiscated

Thein Sein says Burma’s prestige is dependent on elections but the chorus of global condemnation continues to ring loud

Wa army releases a statement saying that four townships are excluded form the vote, but it will look to negotiate with the new governemnt

Voter complain they are being followed into polling booths by USDP officials as authorities take to the streets to encourage voting

British, German, French and Italian diplomats say they will not take part in ‘choreographed tour’ of voting stations offered by the junta

Detainees awaiting sentencing in a number of prisons around Burma told to vote in advance of 7 November elections

Democratic Party Myanmar says that three complaints of fraudulent behaviour lodged against the PM’s party have been ignored

Forty-five political prisoners look set to spend their second elections behind bars as hopes of an amnesty fade

Arakan opposition party claims a complaint made to the Election Commission about the USDPs continued campaigning was ignored

Burma’s election authority says that diplomats and employees of UN agencies will be able to view selected ballot stations on the day

Veterans of the 1988 uprising have regrouped and claim they can succeed on Sunday where the thousands who marched 22 years ago could not