As the results began to come in, Egyptians took to the streets and stayed until the early hours of this morning to celebrate, waving Sisi's campaign posters and bringing traffic to a standstill.
A spokesman for Sisi's campaign thanked the "Egyptian people for putting their trust in Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi".
The polling was held on Monday and Tuesday but apparently due to a low voter turnout the PEC added a third day of voting yesterday.
The presidential election was the second since the January 25, 2011, revolution that led to the ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
This was the first foreign-monitored election in Egypt's history. The European Union had 150 monitors across Egypt.
The African Union and the Arab League also observed the elections.
In 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood's Morsi won in a runoff with 52 per cent, just over 13 million votes. The turnout was 51 percent.
Sisi deposed President Morsi last July after mass protests. He has overseen a bloody crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement in which more than 1,400 people have been killed and 16,000 detained.
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