Egypt: Ruling party wins

Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party wiped out its Islamist opponents from Parliament in the first round of a disputed election, according to official results.

The NDP won 209 of 221 seats in the first round of voting.

A total of 287 seats will be contested in the run-off on December 5.

The Muslim Brotherhood failed to win a single seat, but the group had said before the results were announced that it had at least 26 candidates who would run in the second round, 16 of them incumbents.

Four small legal opposition parties won five seats between them and seven went to independents who are not affiliated with the Brotherhood.

According to election officials the turnout was 35 per cent of the country's 40 million eligible voters.