Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party has lost its majority in parliament.
Figures announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission show that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change won 96 seats of the 207 contested, with a splinter group still technically part of the party gaining a further nine.
An independent candidate, Mr Mugabe's former information minister Jonathan Moyo, also retained his seat in the 210-member chamber.
The results mean that ZANU-PF, on 94 seats with only a handful of results still to be announced, has lost its parliamentary majority.
Earlier, MDC declared its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, the rightful winner of last Saturday's presidential election.
It made the announcement based on its own tally of the weekend polls which showed MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won 50.3% of the vote and President Robert Mugabe 43.8%.
The ruling ZANU-PF party has described the MDC claims as 'wishful'.
The headlines are predicting the worst-case scenario for President Mugabe.
With neither himself nor his opponent likely to reach 51%, both men will have to face a run-off.
Even the state-run Herald newspaper says that would mean a landslide victory for the opposition.
There are rumours Mr Mugabe does not want to face that humiliation.
His officials are said to be in discussion with the opposition to hammer out a deal that would allow him to leave office and perhaps the country.
But the opposition MDC says that is premature.
As voters continue to await the election results the economy is uppermost in their minds.
With inflation running to several hundred thousand percent, a regime change could only be a good thing.
