Almost 100% Egyptians have given about 22 million votes for incumbent president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi with a 41.05 percent voter turnout, Egypt's election commission announced.

Egyptians cast their ballots electing the new head of state from March 26-28.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former military commander, became Egyptian president in 2014 and has now been re-elected to another four-year term.

​According to local media, Sisi's rival Moussa Mustafa Moussa is a distant second with only 721,000 votes or 3% support in the country.

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A total of 60 million Egyptians were eligible to vote in the three-day election, which started on Monday. </s> Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has won a second term with 97% of the vote and 41% of voter turnout after facing no serious challenge, according to the election committee.Egyptians cast their ballots electing the new head of state from March 26-28.Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former military commander, became Egyptian president in 2014 and has now been re-elected to another four-year term.According to local media, Sisi's rival Moussa Mustafa Moussa is a distant second with only 721,000 votes or 3% support in the country.A total of 60 million Egyptians were eligible to vote in the three-day election, which started on Monday. </s> CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected with 97 percent of votes, the exact proportion that brought the former military commander his first term four years ago, Egypt's election commission announced on Monday.



However, turnout in last week's election was lower than in 2014, at 41 percent.



Sisi had long been virtually guaranteed victory after all serious opposition pulled out of the contest earlier this year. </s> CAIRO—Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al Sisi is set to be to re-elected as the country’s president, winning about 90% of the vote based on initial results, the country’s state news agency reported Thursday.

The early returns marked the conclusion of an election in which Mr. Sisi’s major opponents were jailed and sidelined and in which voters were enticed to the polls with offers of food and cash and threatened with a fine for not participating. </s> Voting has begun in Egypt's presidential election, a contest which is expected to give incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi an easy win and a second term as he faces almost no opposition.

Polls opened at 9am local time on Monday on the first of three days of voting.

Sisi cast his vote in Cairo as the polls opened, state TV reported. </s> Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been reelected as Egyptian president with 97 percent of the vote, according to official results published on Monday. The former military commander secured the same proportion four years ago for his first term, Reuters said. The turnout this year was lower at 41 percent. Sisi had been virtually guaranteed a landslide win, confirmed by early tallies as voting ended on Wednesday. There was only one other candidate – himself an ardent Sisi supporter – after the main challenger was arrested and other contenders halted their campaigns in January. Sisi said he had wanted more candidates to run and that he had had nothing to do with the opposition withdrawals. The president suggested before the vote that he saw it as a referendum on his presidency rather than a genuine contest. </s> Egypt's National Elections Authority (NEA) has declared Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi the winner of the nation's 2018 presidential elections, securing a second four-year term after winning 21,835,378 votes or 97.08 percent of valid votes.

At a press conference in Cairo on Monday, the NEA said that 24,254,152 citizens voted in the elections at home and abroad, out of near 59 million eligible voters, representing a turnout of 41.5 percent.

The NEA said that Ghad Party chief Moussa Mostafa Moussa, El-Sisi's sole opponent in the elections, won 656,534 votes or 2.92 percent of total votes

The authority said the number of invalid ballots was 1,762,231 or 7.27 percent of total votes cast.

Egyptians voted in 13,706 polling stations across all 27 governorates, said the NEA, with more than 18,808 judges and 124,000 administrative staff supervising the process.

Voting in Egypt took place between 26 and 28 March, with Egyptians abroad voting from 16 to 18 March, at Egyptian embassies and consulates in more than 120 countries.

'No complaints'

The NEA said it had not received any complaints about the elections process from the campaigns of either candidate, with no significant violations reported.

At total of 54 local and international organizations, including African Union observers and the Arab League, observed the process, reporting no violations of procedure, said the NEA.

On the third day of the vote at home, the authority announced it would be enforcing a fine of EGP 500 on those who failed to vote in the elections, as per the 2014 presidential elections law.

More than 18,000 judges and around 120,000 administrative staff supervised the vote.

The vote was secured by tens of thousands of police and army personnel.

Four more years

This is the second presidential term for Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, now aged 64, who has held office since winning elections in 2014.

He became the sixth president of the republic in May of that year after winning 23.78 million votes (96.91 percent) against his Nasserist opponent Hamdeen Sabahi.

Egypt's 2014 constitution limits presidents to two four-year terms.

El-Sisi is due to be sworn in at the House of Representatives in Cairo in June, as per constitutional guidelines, according to the Egyptian parliament's spokeperson.

In 2014, El-Sisi was sworn in at the Supreme Constitutional Court due to the absence of an elected parliament at the time.

A life of service

The father of four, El-Sisi graduated from Egypt's Military Academy in 1977 as an officer in the Egyptian army.

His previous posts include a spell as a defence attaché in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He also took up command positions in the Sinai Peninsula and Egypt's second-biggest city, Alexandria.

El-Sisi was a fellow at the US Army War College in Pennsylvania in 2005-2006.

He was appointed as the head of Egyptian military intelligence in January 2010.

A year later, he became the youngest member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which ruled the country following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in the January 2011 uprising.

In August 2012, then-President Mohamed Morsi appointed El-Sisi as minister of defence.

In July 2013, the Islamist president Morsi was ousted from power following mass protests against his rule that were backed by the army and various Egyptian political forces.

In March 2014, El-Sisi resigned from his post as minister of defense and ran for presidency.

El-Sisi is married to his maternal cousin Entissar Amer.

Short link: </s> Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been reelected for a second term with 92 per cent of the vote, state media reported today citing preliminary results.

Some 23 million of the 60 million registered voters turned out during the three days of polling that ended yesterday, state-owned newspapers Al-Ahram and Akhbar el-Youm, and the official MENA news agency reported. </s> CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for a second term with about 92 percent of the vote, preliminary results showed on Thursday, with just over 40 percent of voters casting ballots.

Twenty-five million of the 60 million registered voters, or some 41.5 percent, turned out during the three days of polling that ended Wednesday, state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported. Twenty-three million voted for Sisi.

The Akhbar el-Youm newspaper did not report the full turnout but said Sisi won 21.4 million votes, and his rival Moussa Mostafa Moussa 721,000 votes, without mentioning the number of spoiled ballots.

According to Al-Ahram, in addition to 23 million who cast valid votes, two million spoiled their ballot papers.

Sisi’s sole challenger was the little-known Moussa, himself a supporter of the president, who registered immediately before the close date for applications, saving the election from being a one-horse race.

Moussa conceded his loss on Wednesday night, telling a television station he had hoped for 10 percent of the vote.

“But I know the immense popularity of President Sisi,” he said.

Other, more heavy-weight would-be challengers were all sidelined, detained or pulled out.

Sisi, who as army chief ousted Egypt’s first freely elected president — Mohamed Morsi — after mass street protests in 2013, won his first term in 2014 with 96.9 percent of the vote.—AFP
Incumbent Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is declared the winner, with 97% of the vote and a 41% turnout.