Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy defeated the ruling military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party.
Although Suu Kyi has won an overwhelming victory, it is not going to be easy to translate this victory into political gains.
Some believe she should no longer be the face of the struggle to free Myanmar from the new military dictatorship, observes Prakash Bhandari.
'She's not going to keel over.' 'This is the kind of difficult situation that she thrives in.'
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy is expected to make big gains in the polls.
If Myanmar's election demonstrates reasonable transparency and fair process, it would go down in history as the first free and fair one in the country in more than two decades, says Dr Rahul Mishra.
It was the first reasonably free and fair national election held there since 1990, when Aung San Suu Kyi's fledgling National League for Democracy won a landslide victory.
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