TUNIS, Tunisia (CNN) -- Polls closed late Sunday in Tunisia, the torchbearer of the so-called Arab Spring, but voters will not see results of national elections until Tuesday, officials said.

On Sunday, long lines of voters snaked around schools-turned-polling-stations in Tunis's upscale Menzah neighborhood, some waiting for hours to cast a vote in the nation's first national elections since the country's independence in 1956.

"It's a wonderful day. It's the first time we can choose our own representatives," said Walid Marrakchi, a civil engineer who waited more than two hours, and who brought along his 3-year-old son Ahmed so he could "get used to freedom and democracy."

Tunisia's election is the first since a popular uprising in January overthrew long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and triggered a wave of revolutions -- referred to as the Arab Spring -- across the region.

More than 60 political parties and thousands of independent candidates competed for 218 seats in a new Constitutional Assembly, which will be charged with writing a new constitution and laying the framework for a government system.

Voters appeared jubilant on Sunday, taking photos of each other outside polling stations, some holding Tunisian flags.

"It's a holiday," said housewife Maha Haubi, who had just taken her position at the end of the long line of more than 1,000 voters waiting outside an elementary school in Menzah.

"Before we never even had the right to say 'yes' or 'no.'"

Nearby, banker Aid Naghmaichi said she didn't mind the long wait to vote.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Where is this taking place?
2. What is being voted on?
3. What day of the week did they vote?
4. When was the last one held?
5. What else happened then?
6. Where are people voting?
7. What is something they turned into a place to vote?
8. Did anyone have to wait?
9. When do they get to know who won?
10. Who speaks about this?

Numbered answers:
1. Tunisia
2. Representatives are being chosen
3. Sunday
4. 1956
5. Country gained its independence
6. Menzah neighborhood
7. Schools
8. Yes
9. unknown
10. Cnn