Mubarak wins fifth term in Egypt polls

"Mubarak...is the elected president," said al-Gomhuria in a headline. "Mubarak obtains the trust and support of the people," said another government newspaper, al-Akhbar.

The Presidential Election Commission, which ran the election on Wednesday and is supervising the count, is expected to announce the official result late on Friday or on Saturday.

According to monitors and the opposition, the voting was marred by widespread abuses and irregularities, mainly by Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP) and by the organizers.

However, the abuses would not have affected the overall result, said several monitoring groups, including the independent Egyptian Organizat-ion for Human Rights.

The election commission, whose decisions are final, on Thursday rejected a rerun request from Ayman Nour of the liberal Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, Mubarak's best known rival.

Detailed voting figures from 15 of Egypt's 26 provinces, published in the state newspaper al-Ahram, showed that Mubarak won everywhere, with between 69 and 98 percent of the vote.