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    January 21, 2012

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Party Wins Sweeping Victory in Parliamentary
Election

   VOA News
   Boys stand near campaign posters of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom
   and Justice Party outside a polling station during the second day of
   parliamentary elections, December 14, 2011.
   Photo: Reuters
   Boys stand near campaign posters of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom
   and Justice Party outside a polling station during the second day of
   parliamentary elections in the village of Kafr el-Moseilha, the
   hometown of former president Hosni Mubarak, December 14, 2011.

   The party of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood won a sweeping victory in the
   country's parliamentary election, taking 47 percent of the seats in the
   new assembly.
   Egypt's election commission announced the final results on Saturday.
   Head of the commission Abdel Moez Ibrahim said the Brotherhood's
   Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 235 seats in the 498-seat People's
   Assembly.
   Two-thirds of the seats in the new lower house are secured on party
   lists and the rest by individual candidates. The FJP won 127 seats on
   the party lists and 108 in the first-past-the-post constituency votes.
   The hardline Islamist Al-Nur party is the second most dominant in the
   assembly, winning 29 percent of the seats. The secular Wafd party came
   in third and the Egyptian Bloc coalition came in fourth.
   The elections were the first since the ouster of former president Hosni
   Mubarak last February. The complex election system was carried out in
   three rounds of voting.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
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