This was enough to see him emerge the strongest candidate in the first round of voting.
Morsi is one of two candidates who made it through a first round of voting this month.
He claimed victory in the first round of voting in August, but an investigation revealed widespread fraud.
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But in the first round of voting that year, he captured only 20 percent in a field of seven.
The first round of voting took place in Egypt's most liberal, cosmopolitan cities.
Deputy President William Ruto noted that he and Kenyatta won in the first round of voting despite the U.S. warning.
Not only did Obama fail to deliver, he failed to even get Chicago past the first round of voting.
In a first round of voting, his proposals won only 21% of the vote, next to 54% for Mr Hollande's.
Just 13 votes had separated Mr Hurley and Mrs Iles in the first round of voting, based on electors' first-preference votes.
The opposition again showed remarkable unity following the first round of voting in February, which put Mr Wade ahead, with 35%.
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Former Coronation Street actress Zaraah Abrahams was knocked out of the competition earlier in the evening after the first round of voting.
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Sarkozy, who leads the center-right UMP party, received 27.2% of the vote in the first round of voting, just behind Hollande's 28.6%.
In the first round of voting last month, Wade was booed by much of one crowd at a polling place in Dakar.
The first round of voting in Cairo and four other provinces will be held on 22 April, rather than the projected 27 April.
Before the first round of voting, former President Jacques Chirac added his support to Hollande, though Chirac was a center-right president, like Sarkozy.
The first round of voting in a presidential election was held March in Guinea-Bissau, and campaigning for the second round was about to begin.
With almost all the votes counted in the first round of voting, Mr Zeman has emerged as the front runner, with Mr Schwarzenberg in second place.
Despite losing out in the first round of voting for 2022, Australia's Football Federation chief executive Ben Buckley thought the Australian bid had strengthened his country's reputation.
Having launched his swing to populism as soon as it became clear he had lost the first round of voting, on April 7th, he has kept the momentum going.
Representatives of the five presidential candidates defeated in the first round of voting were at the meeting although they had not been invited, Portuguese TV channel RTP Africa reports.
After the first round of voting the country with the fewest votes will drop out and their votes will then be given to the bid ranked second by that voter.
In Sunday's cantonal elections, the National Front won at least two cantons, though the party's share of the vote decreased from 15% in the first round of voting the previous weekend.
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Meanwhile, the provincial totals showed "big shifts" toward Ahmadinejad compared with 2005, when he came in second in the first round of voting and won office in a runoff, Silver said.
The process is complicated and somewhat cumbersome, but it basically allows the accountants to calculate both the first round of voting and then any needed runoffs in a systematic and fair way.
As such, its achievement in taking a fifth of the votes in the first round of voting, while notable, did not indicate a sudden rise to prominence for the far right, he said.
To win the first round of voting, parliamentary candidates must receive a majority of votes cast in their districts as well as enough votes to represent 25% of all registered voters in their districts.
In a first round of voting, in which 22 candidates competed, Mr Hassan came second to the incumbent, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, but prevailed over him easily with 190 votes to 79 in a run-off.
Mehdi Karroubi, a reformist cleric who ran in the recent election, was narrowly beaten to second place in a first round of voting because of a suspiciously heavy tilt to Mr Ahmadinejad in outlying provinces.
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