latest vote totals

With 18 of 27 governorates counted, the Nasserist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi is indeed the surprise of the election so far. Amr Moussa looks to be headed for a surprise career-ending flop. He’s too old to bounce back from this sort of punishment from voters, which is all the more humiliating given the success of Shafiq (i.e., Moussa isn’t just rejected for being a Mubarak leftover, because Shafiq is every bit as much of one.

“13:30 Final results aggregated by Ahram Online of counted votes in 18 out of 27 governorates (Daqahliya, Sharqiya, Alexandria, Beheira, Gharbiya, Minya, Sohag, Menoufiya, Kafr El-Sheikh, Qena, Beni Suef, Aswan, Damietta, Luxor, Port Said, Suez, Red Sea and South Sinai) show that with 41.6 per cent turnout, Brotherhood candidate Mursi is in first place, followed by Mubarak’s last prime minister Shafiq, while the Nasserist candidate Sabbahi, the surprise of this election so far, has fallen back into third place – after the totals of Sharqiya and Sohag governorates were announced. The results thus far are as following:

 

Mursi 3,451,433 (25.59 per cent)

Shafiq 3,378,998 (25.05 per cent)

Sabbahi 2,862,143 (21.22 per cent)

Abul-Fotouh 2,362,956 (17.52 per cent)

Moussa 1,431,239 (10.61 per cent)”