Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi got a clear majority of 94. 5 percent votes from Egyptians living abroad, officials announced Wednesday.
Authorities of the Presidential Elections Committee said Sisi won the expatriate votes with a huge margin against his rival Hamdeen Sabahi.
Expats in 124 countries cast their votes in the elections from last Thursday to Monday. The committee stated that 318,033 expatriates voted in 141 polling stations in Egyptian consulates and embassies across the world, reports ahramonline. Option of voting through mail or email was scrapped this year.
According to Al Arabiya News, almost 6 to 8 million Egyptians live abroad, according to official figures. However, just 600,000 expats registered to vote in the presidential elections.
The two-day elections in Egypt will begin May 26. The European Union announced Monday that its election monitoring team will observed the elections. The mission was earlier cancelled after their equipment was confiscated by government authorities.
Sisi, the frontrunner in ousting former president Mohammad Morsi last July, is poised to win the elections. The Brotherhood party, that was declared a terrorist organisation after Morsi's overthrow, boycotted the election calling it illegitimate.
Earlier this month, the National Democratic Party, of which former President Hosni Mubarak was the leader, has been banned from contesting polls.
The military-backed government suspended the constitution and dissolved the parliament last July. Sisi is also accused of carrying out severe actions against the supporters of Morsi and the Brotherhood.
The crackdown against Morsi supporters has also led to speedy trials and mass death sentences of at least 1000 people. Following the verdict, several international bodies condemned the act. America said in a statement released last month that the death ruling, "defies even the most basic standards of international justice."
Sisi's win would mean that Egypt's presidency would once again be in the hands of a top military official just 3 years after dictator Mubarak, an air force officer, was deposed from power, Press TV reports. He ruled the country for almost three decades.
