Almost all North Koreans cast their ballots Sunday in an election for a rubber-stamp parliament -- an exercise that doubles as a national head count and may offer clues to power shifts in Pyongyang

Almost all North Koreans cast their ballots Sunday in an election for a rubber-stamp parliament -- an exercise that doubles as a national head count and may offer clues to power shifts in Pyongyang.
  
All registered voters -- except those who are currently abroad -- took part in the nationwide elections for members of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), the state-run KCNA news agency said.
  
Those who are ill or infirm and cannot travel to polling stations are casting votes at special "mobile ballot boxes," it said. "Overjoyed" voters rushed to polling stations across the country from early in the morning, it said, adding many danced and played music on the street in praise of the leader, Kim Jong-Un.
  
The North's state TV showed hundreds of people across the country clad in brightly-coloured traditional dresses dancing in circles on the street. Kim also cast his vote along with high-ranking army and party cadres. 
  
It was the first election to the SPA under the leadership of Kim, who took over the reins of power on the death of his father, Kim Jong-Il, in December 2011.And like his father before him, Kim stood as a candidate -- in constituency number 111, Mount Paektu.