Election results Egypt - It was an anti-climax for the Egyptian population as the Head of Higher Electoral Commission, Counsellor Abdel-Moez Ibrahim, came up with results of four clear-cut victories for individual candidates, saying that the rest of the 53 seats in the individual lists race would go to run-offs next week. He said four individual candidates, two of them from the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), won more than 50 percent of votes to gain outright victory out of 53 seats contested.
The results of the first phase of the country's first democratic election since the downfall of president Hosni Mubarak, came after two days of delay.
In a televised press conference, aired live on state television, Ibrahim said the final official results for the party lists' race, which constitutes two thirds of available seats, would only be announced by mid-January, at the end of the third and final phase of the parliamentary (Lower House) elections, in which Egypt's 18 other governorates will participate.
Ibrahim said the turnout in the first phase had reached a record 62% in the nine governorates that witnessed contests.
Nearly 8.5 million people out of the 13.6 million eligible voters participated in the largely peaceful polls that covered the governorates of Cairo, Alexandria, Damietta, Port-Said, Kafr Al-Sheikh, Fayoum, Assyut, Luxor, and the Red Sea.
The Shoura Council (Upper House) elections are then to follow, to conclude by March, where a joint session of both houses is to elect a panel for drafting the country's new constitution, which is to be put to a referendum.
Presidential elections are then to take place, at a date not later then end of June 2012, according to a timetable put forward by Egypt's interim ruling military council.
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