Egyptians cast ballots

Egyptians take to the polls at the start of the first parliamentary election since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power last winter.

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Dec. 1, 2011

A banner supporting Egyptian parliamentary candidate Ahmed Abd El Hameed Mohammed is pasted on a wall in the al-Azhar quarter in Cairo. The fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood is emerging as the big winner in partial results from the first voting this week in Egypt's landmark election.

Bernat Armangue / AP

Dec. 1, 2011

T-shirts for sale are displayed in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Judges overseeing the vote count in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster say near-final results show Islamist parties taking a majority of seats contested in the first round. The Arabic writing on T-shirts reads, “Jan. 25, Revolution, freedom.”

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Dec. 1, 2011

A man eats breakfast in front of election posters in the al-Azhar quarter in Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood is emerging as the biggest winner in partial results from the first voting this week in Egypt's landmark election.

Bela Szandelszky / AP

Nov. 30, 2011

A man smokes from a waterpipe while reading news on his tablet as a TV channel broadcasts live election coverage at a cafe in the Zeitun neighborhood of Cairo. Egypt's Islamists claimed they were headed for victory in the opening phase of the country's first post-revolution election after two days of peaceful polling.

Odd Andersen / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 30, 2011

Election officials count ballots for the parliamentary elections in Cairo. Egypt’s military rulers are taking credit for the strong turnout in the country's first parliamentary elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.

Amr Nabil / AP

Nov. 29, 2011

Election workers count ballots for the parliamentary elections in Luxor, Egypt.

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Nov. 29, 2011

Women line up in front of election posters for candidates before entering a polling station in Cairo. Polls opened Tuesday for a second day of voting in Egypt's landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak's ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year.

Bela Szandelszky / AP

Nov. 29, 2011

A man dips his finger in ink at a parliamentary polling station in the Cairo neighborhood of Shubra. Egyptians in Cairo and the port city Alexandria waited in long lines to cast ballots for a new parliament — the start of multi-stage elections that are the first since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February.

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Nov. 29, 2011

Women vote at a polling station in the town of Ibshawai, near Fayoum, Egypt.

Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP

Nov. 29, 2011

An Egyptian boy uses a megaphone to support a candidate outside a polling station in Cairo.

Amr Nabil / AP

Nov. 29, 2011

An Egyptian woman votes at a polling station in the town of Ibshawai, near Fayoum.

Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP

Nov. 29, 2011

Votes pile up inside a ballot box at a polling station in Old Cairo on the second day of voting in Cairo. The complicated process will take four months to conclude. Presidential elections are expected to be held in 2012.

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Nov. 28, 2011

A man looks at a list of candidates before voting in a polling station during the parliamentary election in the Shubra neighborhood of Cairo.

Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

Nov. 28, 2011

A security officer carries ballot papers to a polling station during parliamentary elections in Cairo. Egyptians lined up to vote on Monday in the first big test of a transition born in popular revolutionary euphoria that soured into distrust of the generals who replaced Hosni Mubarak.

Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters

Nov. 28, 2011

A woman rests in front of campaign posters outside a polling station on the first day of parliamentary elections in Alexandria, Egypt. Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians on Monday began voting in their nation's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a giant step toward what many in the country hope will be a democratic Egypt after decades of dictatorship.

Tarek Fawzy / AP

Nov. 28, 2011

Voters snake around a block as they prepare to cast their ballots outside a polling station in the Cairo neighborhood of Zamalek. Post-revolution Egypt headed to the polls for a chaotic election clouded by violence and a political crisis, the start of a long process to bring democracy to the Arab world's most populous nation.

Odd Andersen / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 28, 2011

Soldiers let voters through to cast ballot at a polling station in the Zamalek neighborhood of Cairo. Egyptians began voting in the first elections since the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February in one of the most important moments of the Arab Spring.

Odd Andersen / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 28, 2011

Men assist a wheelchair-bound voter at a polling station in the Manial neighborhood of Cairo.

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Nov. 28, 2011

Discarded election fliers and pamphlets lie on the street as Egyptians line up to vote in front of a polling station in Cairo. Voting began on Monday in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising.

Bela Szandelszky / AP

Nov. 28, 2011

People queue at a polling station to cast their votes during parliamentary elections in Cairo,.

Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters

Nov. 28, 2011

A woman, left, is helped by an election worker as she checks in to vote in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo.

Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP

Nov. 28, 2011

A voter studies a ballot paper at a polling station in Cairo. Months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, 45 million Egyptians are voting in the first round of six elections for its upper and lower houses of parliament. The complicated process will take four months to complete. Presidential elections are expected to be held in 2012.

Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images

Nov. 28, 2011

A woman votes inside a polling station in Assuit, Egypt.

Khalil Hamra / AP

Nov. 28, 2011

A veiled woman casts her ballot in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo.

Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP

Nov. 28, 2011

A woman watches as voters queue up outside a polling station in the Shubra district of Cairo.

Mohammed Hossam / AFP/Getty Images

Nov. 28, 2011

An old man reads a ballot paper before casting his vote at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Cairo.

Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters

Nov. 28, 2011

Women vote in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo.

Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP

Nov. 28, 2011

A man dips his finger in ink after casting a vote at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Cairo.

Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

Nov. 28, 2011

Election workers are seen through a ballot box at a polling center on the first day of parliamentary elections in Cairo. Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians on Monday began voting in their nation's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster.

Ahmed Ali / AP

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