Huge majority for Muslim Brotherhood

• Egypt's Islamists led by the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood clinched two thirds of seats in Parliament in historic polls after the ouster of strongman Hosni Mubarak, official results showed.
• The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 235 seats in the new People's Assembly, or 47.18 per cent
• The FJP secured 127 seats on party lists and its candidates won another 108 in first-past-the-post constituency votes.
• The ultra-conservative Salafist Al-Nur party came second with 121 seats or 24.29 per cent, and the liberal Wafd Party was third with nearly nine per cent.
• The landmark election was the first since Mr. Mubarak's overthrow last February. It began in November and was carried out in three stages.
• The People's Assembly, or Lower House, is made up of 498 elected MPs and 10 appointed by the ruling military which took over after Mr. Mubarak quit last February 11. It will hold its first session on Monday.
• In Egypt's complex electoral system, voters cast ballots for party list candidates to make up two thirds of parliament, and direct votes for individual candidates for the remaining third.
• Elections for Parliament's upper house, the Shura Council, are to begin later this month and conclude in February. Then the two chambers will choose a 100-member panel to draft a new constitution.
• A new president will then be elected by June under the timetable set by the military rulers who announced that candidates can register for the presidency from April 15.