Cairo (CNN) -- Two Islamist parties won handily in Egypt's parliamentary election runoff, an election official said Saturday.
The relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party won more than 4 million votes in the runoff for the second round of a three-part process.
The conservative Al Noor Salafi Party won more than 3 million. The secular Egyptian bloc won 785,000. Egypt's Islamists claimed victory in the first round of elections in other parts of the country.
The second round of voting covered the regions of Giza, Luxor, Aswan and Ismailia regions, which have historically favored conservative Muslim candidates. More than 11 million voters participated.
The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has led Egypt's government since a popular uprising ousted former President Hosni Mubarak in February. It has said it will hand over power to a new government once one is in place.
These are the first parliamentary elections since former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was forced from office in February.
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