The final results of the first post-Mubarak Egypt's election confirmed an overwhelming victory for Islamist parties.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won the largest number of seats under complex electoral system in Egypt.
The strict Salafist party Nour came second.
The liberal New Wafd and the secular Egyptian Bloc coalition is somehow behind them.
Egyptians voted in three phases over a period of six weeks to 498 members of the Assembly to choose. Another ten members appointed by the ruling military.
Within the country, with two thirds of the seats for party list candidates, and the last third to be voted on immediately.
The overall results suggest that Islamist parties control about two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, but the final share of seats is not yet known.
The FJP top of the polls the votes for party list seats. Having also done well in the constituency vote will end up with between one third and half of all MPs.
The ultra-conservative party Nour believed to have won almost a quarter of the seats in general.
The new assembly is due to sit for the first time on Monday.
The FJP has announced that it would appoint Saad al-Katatni as speaker of the Assembly. Mr. Katatni is a long-Brotherhood official, sat in the old parliament as an independent.
He told Reuters that the new assembly would be "conciliatory".
"The priorities are the requirements for the revolution, including the rights of the injured and the dead in the uprising meeting," he said.
Former President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign last year after a popular uprising.
A new president will be elected in June according to the timetable that the military leaders in Egypt.
BBC Jon Leyn in Cairo says that while the Muslim Brotherhood seems finally on the brink of power is still president, who choose the public sector - winners of this election does not automatically come into operation.
The Brotherhood - which led opposition to Mr Mubarak during his 30 years in power - until this year was officially banned. In practice, it was tolerated as long as it remained on the fringes of politics.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won the largest number of seats under complex electoral system in Egypt.
The strict Salafist party Nour came second.
The liberal New Wafd and the secular Egyptian Bloc coalition is somehow behind them.
Egyptians voted in three phases over a period of six weeks to 498 members of the Assembly to choose. Another ten members appointed by the ruling military.
Within the country, with two thirds of the seats for party list candidates, and the last third to be voted on immediately.
The overall results suggest that Islamist parties control about two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, but the final share of seats is not yet known.
The FJP top of the polls the votes for party list seats. Having also done well in the constituency vote will end up with between one third and half of all MPs.
The ultra-conservative party Nour believed to have won almost a quarter of the seats in general.
The new assembly is due to sit for the first time on Monday.
The FJP has announced that it would appoint Saad al-Katatni as speaker of the Assembly. Mr. Katatni is a long-Brotherhood official, sat in the old parliament as an independent.
He told Reuters that the new assembly would be "conciliatory".
"The priorities are the requirements for the revolution, including the rights of the injured and the dead in the uprising meeting," he said.
Former President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign last year after a popular uprising.
A new president will be elected in June according to the timetable that the military leaders in Egypt.
BBC Jon Leyn in Cairo says that while the Muslim Brotherhood seems finally on the brink of power is still president, who choose the public sector - winners of this election does not automatically come into operation.
The Brotherhood - which led opposition to Mr Mubarak during his 30 years in power - until this year was officially banned. In practice, it was tolerated as long as it remained on the fringes of politics.
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