Egypt's Sisi to sweep presidential polls after initial count

Initial poll count on Wednesday shows that Egypt's former military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will sweep the presidential elections with an overwhelming majority of votes.

Sisi's campaign team was quoted as saying that he has garnered over 93 percent of the ballots from 2,000 polling stations that were counted.

Sisi has won more than four million votes, while his sole rival leftist Hamdeen Sabahy has received about 133,000, the campaign team said.

The 59-year-old former military chief, who led the ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi last July, was expected to trounce Sabahy in the three-day race wrapped up on Wednesday night.