The ceremonies celebrating the election of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as Egyptian president were elegant and represented Egypt's first peaceful transfer of power from an acting president to a new, elected one. While this is a welcome development, it does not obscure some outcomes of the election itself, in which 48% of the electorate gave almost 97% of the vote to Sisi. The turnout was much less than expected, lending a minor deficit to the extent of the legitimacy of the legally elected president. It was equally surprising that Hamdeen Sabahi, the other presidential candidate, received less then 4% of the vote. In the 2012 presidential elections, he finished third, out of five candidates, with 21.5% of the vote.

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