Tunisia's ruling Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) swept weekend municipal elections in the north African country, winning 94 percent of the 4,366 seats at stake, provisional results showed Monday. The four legal opposition parties that fielded candidates in Sunday's vote, as well as one independent list, together won about 260 seats, of which around 100 were for the Movement of Socialist Democrats. Some 2.8 million voters elected town councils to new five-year terms in the polls, whose turnout was calculated at more than 80 percent on average, ranging from 78 percent in northern Kalaat al-Andalous and 97 percent in central Chrarda, the Interior Ministry said.The RCD's crushing victory had been expected, and mirrored the result from 2000, but this time, under a law passed that year aimed at promoting pluralism at the communal level, the opposition will be awarded blocks of 20 percent of the seats in each of the town councils for which they fielded candidates and won at least three percent of the vote. On the basis of the results, this will apply to about 60 of the 264 town councils.