Results from polling stations across Egypt's 27 governorates began to roll in late Thursday night and early Friday morning following the country's most competitive poll in history. Voting confirmed analysts' suspicions that only five of the thirteen candidates face the possibility of advancing into a run-off. Those garnering significant support were the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsy, Mubarak's last Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafiq, former Brotherhood leader Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, Nasserite Hamdeen Sabbahi, and the former head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa. 1:30 am: In Hadiqa Village of Tama, Sohag, Shafiq's 807 votes were well ahead of Mohamed Morsy's 245. Moussa was able to gain the support of 123 voters, while Sabbahi added 54 to his national total and Abouel Fotouh added 112 to his. At the polling station of the Imam Mohamed Abdu School in the Delta governorate of Qalyubia, Shafiq came out ahead with 627 votes, while Sabbahi followed with 548. Moussa was third with 296 votes, and Abouel Fotouh earned the support of 198 voters. Morsy finished in fifth with 154 votes. Sabbahi barely counts a small victory in the vote count at the Fatima Anan School in the Cairo suburb Fifth Settlement with 1062 over Abouel Fotouh's 1040. Morsy comes in third with 565, followed by Shafiq with 442 and Moussa with 261. Votes counted at the Othman bin Afnan School in Sharqiya Governorate also put the Nasserist candidate in the lead with 569 votes followed by Abouel Fotouh's 317 and then Morsy's 258, while 242 voters cast their ballots for Shafiq and only 98 voted for Moussa. In the village of Beba in Beni Suef, a rural governorate just south of Cairo, Morsy dominated the poll, bring in 598 votes, while his closest competitor, Shafiq, got less than half that at 250 and Abouel Fotouh won 107. Moussa and Sabbahi nearly tied for fourth place, with 38 and 35 votes respectively. 12:30 am: Voters at the Manshiet Ghali polling station in Sharqiya governorate voted overwhelmingly for Shafiq, with his 422 votes placing him well ahead of his nearest comeptitor, Morsy, who garnered 86 votes. They were followed by Abouel Fotouh, who won 64 votes, Sabbahi with 20 votes, and Amr Moussa with 4 votes. However, at the Tahrir School in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena, Shafiq was edged out by Abouel Fotouh, who won 492 votes to the former Air Force general's 480. Morsy followed with 285 votes, while Moussa and Sabbahi earned the support of 284 and 261 votes, respectively. Moussa was the favorite at the Waqsa polling station in Shariqya, wining 509 votes. Shafiq was next with 295, while Morsy followed with 285, Abouel Fotouh with 81, and Sabbahi with 35 votes. At another polling station in Sharqiya, in Riyadh, Abu Kebir, Shafiq's 330 votes bested Morsy's 322. Sabbahi and Abouel Fotouh mustered a third of their votes, with 91 and 89 each, respectively, while Moussa only was able to get 17 votes. At Abu Dokhan School in Beba, Beni Suef the Brotherhood's candidate's Morsy and ex-Brother Abouel Fotouh led with 99 and 93 votes, respectively. Moussa was in third with 28 votes, while 26 residents cast their votes for Ahmed Shafiq, and 18 voters chose Moussa. At Hasim Selim School in Khanka, Qalyubia, Morsy's 158 votes were enough to beat out Shafiq's 97. Abouel Fotouh was able to garner the support of 67 voters, while Moussa's 51 votes and Sabbahi's 45 rounded out fourth and fifth place. Old Cairo's Abul Saoud Prep School was a much larger polling station, with over 3,500 voters. Most voters opted for secular candidates. Shafiq, with 836 votes was followed by Moussa's 809 votes. Sabbahi earned the votes of 718 poll-goers. The Islamists, Morsy and Abouel Fotouh, won 594 and 551 votes, respectively. Two voters were enough to push Moussa's 609 votes ahead of Sabbahi's 607 a Medina School in the Dokki Neighborhood of Giza. Shafiq followed with 505 votes, while Abouel Fotouh gained 466 and Morsy was at the bottom of the front-runners with 157 votes.
