 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has won his country's first-ever contested presidential election with 88.6% of the vote, according to official results announced by the electoral commission. Commission chairman Mamduh Marai told reporters in Cairo on Friday that incumbent Mubarak's win was based on a turnout of 23% of registered voters. Mubarak received 6,316,714 votes (88.6%).
| That's up 8 percent from the 80 percent the AP was carrying yesterday. |
| Does anyone have a spare copy of the Guardian? I'd like to see the Clark County results... |
Second place went to Ayman Nour of the opposition Al-Ghad party, with 540,405 votes (7.3%). The other main opposition candidate, Noaman Gomaa of the Wafd Party, received 201,891 votes (2.8%). Before Wednesday's election, officials in Mubarak's ruling party had said they hoped at least 30% of the 32 million registered voters would cast ballots. Mubarak, 77, has been in power since God was in diapers 1981, when he succeeded the assassinated Anwar Sadat. |