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                  By the Numbers: Myanmar's Historic Election

   by Associated Press

   Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party clinched a historic majority in
   Myanmar's Parliament on Friday and will likely gain even more seats as
   poll results continue to trickle in.

   A look at some of the most important numbers behind the Nov. 8 polls:

   364: The number of seats Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for
   Democracy party has won so far in the 664-seat, two-chamber Parliament.
   Final results are still being tabulated.

   329: This has been called the "magic number" -- the threshold that Aung
   San Suu Kyi's party needed to secure a simple parliamentary majority.

   40: The number of seats the military-backed Union Solidarity and
   Development Party has won so far.

   More than 500,000: The number of ethnic Rohingya Muslims denied the
   right to vote by the military-backed government.

   49: The number of years Myanmar was ruled by a military junta, until
   the army ceded power in 2011 to a quasi-civilian government led by
   retired generals.

   25: The number of years since the last full election in 1990, which the
   NLD won in a landslide but was not allowed to take power. The ruling
   junta annulled the results and put Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.

   15: The number of years Aung San Suu Kyi spent in detention, mostly
   under house arrest, over a period of 22 years.

   Nov. 13: The day that Aung San Suu Kyi was freed from house arrest in
   2010 -- and the day exactly five years later that her opposition
   party's parliamentary majority is confirmed on Nov. 13, 2015.

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