Leaked results from Egypt’s first poll since the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, show that Muslim Brotherhood is ahead.

Leaked results from Egypt’s first poll since the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, show Muslim Brotherhood in the lead.

The Muslim Brotherhood's political party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), appeared poised to take the largest share of votes, as much as 45 percent.

The surprise winner in the election appeared to be the Salafi party, Nour. Leaks showed it could win as much as a quarter of the house.

The election commission said on Friday that 62 percent of eligible voters cast ballots for nearly a third of the seats in Egypt's parliament, in the highest turnout in modern history.

The vote on Monday and Tuesday in nine provinces from Egypt’s 27 was the first of three stages when voters went to the polls to elect a new lower house of parliament.

The rest of the country follows next month and in January. Results for the party list seats, which make up two-thirds of the People's Assembly, will not be available until January.