Burmese pro democracy leader and Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is reported to have won a seat in the country's lower house of parliament.
The claim was made by her opposition party, but the country's electoral commission has yet to verify any of the 45 by-election results.
Hundreds of people clapped and cheered as a giant screen outside her National League for Democracy (NLD) party headquarters in Yangon announced she had won a parliamentary seat for the first time.
Some people wept with joy at the news, which if confirmed would mark a stunning turnaround for the former political prisoner, who was locked up by the former junta for most of the past 22 years.
Ms Suu Kyi took an estimated 82% of the vote in Kawhmu constituency, according to NLD senior member Tin Oo, based on the party's own unofficial tally of the by-election. Official results are expected within a week.
The party also claimed it had won at least 10 of the other 45 seats at stake in the vote, which cannot threaten the army-backed ruling party's majority.
Observers believe Burma's new reform-minded quasi-civilian government wanted Ms Suu Kyi to win a place in parliament to enhance its reform credentials and smooth the way for an easing of Western sanctions.
The United States and European Union have hinted that some sanctions - imposed over the past two decades in response to human rights abuses - may be lifted if the election is free and fair.
The charismatic and wildly popular Suu Kyi complained last week of "irregularities".
