Egypt: 62% Election Turnout, No Final Results Yet
Egypt says the turnout for this week's elections was "the highest since the time of pharaohs," but no full results announced.
By Elad Benari, Canada
First Publish: 12/2/2011, 10:29 PM

The head of Egypt’s election commission announced on Friday that 62 percent of eligible voters took part in the initial round of Egypt’s first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, The Associated Press reported. The head of the election commission, Abdel-Mooaez Ibrahim, who said the turnout was “the highest since the time of pharaohs,” did not announce full results for the first round of the election. Those results were expected Friday, but were not available at the time this article was written.

According to preliminary counts leaked by judges and individual political groups, however, the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm has taken the largest share of votes. On Thursday it was reported that the Muslim Brotherhood could take 45 percent of the seats up for grabs. The liberal Egyptian bloc coalition and the ultra-fundamentalist Nour party are competing for second place. Together, Islamist parties are expected to control a majority of parliamentary seats by March. This week’s vote was the first of six stages of parliamentary elections that will last until then.

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