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CAIRO Jan 21 (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood's electoral coalition has won 38 percent 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 with their own forecasts.
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6E8CL07B20120121
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Egypt's Islamist parties win elections to parliament
The final results in Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections confirm an overwhelming victory for Islamist parties.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won the largest number of seats under Egypt's complex electoral system.
The hardline Salafist Nour party came second.
The liberal New Wafd and the secular Egyptian Bloc coalition are some way behind them.
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The overall results mean that Islamist parties control around two-thirds of the seats in the assembly.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16665748