File photo of Egyptians casting their votes in a school used as a voting centre during the second day of parliamentary run-off elections at Shubra in El-Kalubia, on the outskirts of Cairo, on January 11, 2012. — Reuters picCAIRO, Jan 21 — The Muslim Brotherhood’s electoral coalition has won 38 per cent of seats allocated to party lists for Egypt’s Parliament, with Islamists of various stripes taking more than two-thirds of the assembly, in line with their own forecasts.

According to final results issued by the High Elections Committee today, the hardline Islamist Nour Party won 29 per cent of list seats. The secular New Wafd and the Egyptian Bloc coalition came third and fourth respectively.

Under a complex electoral system, two-thirds of seats in Egypt’s 498-seat Lower House are decided by proportional representation on closed party lists. The other third are contested by individual candidates. — Reuters