About 56.5 Percent Of Registered Voters Cast Their Ballots In Jordanian Parliamentary Election

Election officials count votes in Amman, Jordan, Jan. 23, 2013. About 56.5 percent of the registered voters cast their ballots Wednesday to elect members of the 17th lower house of parliament, the election commission said. <Xinhua/Mohammad Abu Ghosh>

A member of the Jordanian Independent Electoral Commission, walks past a large photograph of King Abdullah II of Jordan, at the counting votes station in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Despite a wide boycott by Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood and other smaller opposition parties, at least three dozen Islamists who ran as independents have won seats in the kingdom’s newly empowered parliament, according to initial results released Thursday. <AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon>