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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0704.00019.] In many applications such as potential flow, heat and mass transfer or elasticity problems the quantity of interest is the flux across the boundary. Earlier given superconvergence estimates are derived under the assumptions of quasiuniformity of the partition and high regularity of the solution. But this is almost never satisfied in practice! Then it is much more natural to consider an approach using local analysis. In this paper we introduce a subdomain \(\Omega_ 0\), which includes a flat portion of the boundary of the domain \(\Omega\), and where the solution has the required regularity. We prove that the flux across \(\partial\Omega_ 0\cap\partial\Omega\) can be estimated with a superconvergent order of accuracy plus the solution error and the flux error in weaker norms over the slightly larger subdomain \(\Omega_ 1\). The last two terms measure the effects from outside of \(\Omega_ 1\). Our investigations are based on the papers of \textit{J. A. Nitsche} and \textit{A. H. Schatz} [Math. Comput. 28, 937-958 (1974; Zbl 0298.65071)] and \textit{L. B. Wahlbin} [Local behaviour of finite element methods] and the previous investigtions of superconvergence subdomain estimates up to the boundary [the second author, C.R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 42, No. 7, 29-32 (1989; Zbl 0681.65077); the authors, Up to the boundary subdomain estimates of type superconvergence (to appear)].