President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has won a two-thirds majority in Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections, official results show.
He won more than 150 of 210 seats, according to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's results from Wednesday's vote.
Mr Mugabe's main rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, denounced the election as a "huge farce" and "sham", alleging massive vote rigging by Zanu-PF.
Zimbabwe's largest domestic observer group also called the elections "seriously compromised".
Earlier, a Zimbabwean election commissioner resigned over the way the presidential and parliamentary vote was managed.
Mkhululi Nyathi's departure from the nine-member Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is likely to add to the dispute both inside and outside the country.
"While throughout the whole process I retained some measure of hope that the integrity of the whole process could be salvaged along the way, this was not to be," he said in a resignation letter seen by Reuters.
The vote passed off peacefully and received broad approval from African observers.
Mr Mugabe, 89, has governed the former British colony, then known as Rhodesia, since independence in 1980.
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