Early election results from Zimbabwe show the opposition level with President Robert Mugabe's party, but counting delays have fuelled opposition suspicions of election rigging.
Zimbabwe's election commission started announcing the results from Saturday's election shortly before 7am after a long delay.
Two government ministers have lost their seats.
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, a senior member of Mr Mugabe's government, lost in the eastern opposition stronghold of Manicaland.
Public Affairs Minister Chen Chimutengwende was another government loser.
The latest official results in the parliamentary elections show the MDC with 30 seats and Mr Mugabe's ZANU-PF with 31.
Five seats have gone to a breakaway group from the opposition.
Opposition tallies
No official results have yet been announced for the presidential election.
The MDC said their unofficial tallies showed their leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, had 60% of the presidential vote, twice the total for Mr Mugabe, with more than half the results counted.
Mr Mugabe, 84, faced unprecedented pressure because of Zimbabwe's economic collapse and a two-pronged attack by veteran rival Mr Tsvangirai and ZANU-PF defector Simba Makoni.
The MDC said its tally showed it had won 96 parliamentary constituencies out of 128 counted. It said Mr Makoni had 10% of the unofficial presidential vote count.
Riot police appeared on the streets of the capital Harare overnight and the state-run Herald newspaper accused the MDC of 'preparing its supporters to engage in violence by pre-empting results, claiming they had won'.
