Suu Kyi party set to win Burma vote with weak opposition

Voters go to the polls in Yangon, Burma Picture: Thein Zaw/AP

Voters in Burma’s biggest city, Yangon, turned up in large numbers to cast ballots in nationwide elections that are expected to return to power the party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party won the last elections in 2015 in a landslide, ending more than five decades of military-dictated rule in the country.