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A win for Shafiq in one Cairo district?
Last modified: 18 Jun 2012 03:03
It's just a single neighbourhood, but Al-Masry Al-Youm is reporting a lopsided win for Shafiq in a working-class district of Cairo:
In the working-class Cairo neighborhood of Bab al-Shaariya, which has around 66,000 elligible voters, turnout was slightly over 50 percent, with 34,868 voters. Shafiq took 21,342 while Morsy took 12,034. This could prove indicative of how Cairo's large population will be divided between the two candidates. Morsy's campaign was expected to do better in poor and working class neighborhoods like Bab al-Shaariya than in other parts of the capital.
Very few districts in Cairo and Giza have reported their results so far, and those two governorates will have an outsized impact on the final tally.
