By Hagar al-Dosoki
CAIRO
Former army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has swept the expatriate vote in Egypt's presidential elections, the official electoral commission announced Wednesday.
Al-Sisi garnered 94.52 percent of expatriate votes against 5.48 percent for rival Hamdeen Sabahi, commission secretary-general Abdel-Aziz Salman told a press conference in Cairo.
He said that 318,033 Egyptians had cast ballots abroad, 296,628 of which went to the ex-army chief, while Sabahi received only 17,207.
Salman said the results were not "final," but rather based on tallies released by 141 polling centers overseas.
The five-day voting period for Egyptian expatriates wrapped up on Monday. The election will be conducted in Egypt on May 26-27.
It is the second time Egyptians cast ballots to elect a new president since the 2011 ouster of autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak following the January 25 popular uprising.
The winner of the polls will take over from interim president Adly Mansour, who was installed by the army last July following Morsi's forcible removal from office and subsequent imprisonment.
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