A
presidential election in
Egypt took place between 26 and 28 May 2014. There were only two candidates, former Egyptian
defence minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and
Egyptian Popular Current candidate
Hamdeen Sabahi. The elections came almost a year after the
June 2013 protests that led to the
overthrow of then-president
Mohamed Morsi. The elections, which were planned to take place for two days were extended to a third day. Official figures showed 25,578,233 voted in the elections, a turnout of 47.5%, with el-Sisi winning with 23.78 million votes, 96.91%, ten million more votes than former president Mohamed Morsi (who garnered 13 million votes against his opponent in the runoff of the
2012 Egyptian presidential elections). The election was held without participation of the Muslim Brotherhood's banned
Freedom & Justice Party, which had won every prior post-Mubarak electoral contest.