Egyptian parliamentary election, 2015

17 October – 2 December 2015

468 of 596 seats to the House of Representatives (28 seats appointed). 299 seats needed for a majority


Leader	Sameh Seif El-Yazal	Ahmed Shafik
Party	Free Egyptians Party	Egyptian Patriotic Movement
Alliance	For the Love of Egypt	Egypt


Leader	Tarek Zeidan	Younes Makhioun
Party	Protectors of the Homeland Party	al-Nour
Alliance	Call of Egypt

Free Egyptians Party: 65 seats

Nation's Future Party: 53 seats

New Wafd Party: 36 seats

Protectors of the Homeland Party: 18 seats

Republican People’s Party: 13 seats

Conference Party: 12 seats

al-Nour Party: 11 seats

Conservative Party: 6 seats

Democratic Peace Party: 5 seats

Egyptian Social Democratic Party: 4 seats

Egyptian Patriotic Movement: 4 seats

Modern Egypt Party: 4 seats

Reform and Development Party: 3 seats

Freedom Party: 3 seats

My Homeland Egypt Party: 3 seats

National Progressive Unionist Party: 2 seats

Arab Democratic Nasserist Party: 1 seat

Revolutionary Guards Party: 1 seat

Free Egyptian Building Party: 1 seat

Independents: 351 seats

Incumbent Speaker of the House

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Egyptian parliamentary elections to the House of Representatives were held in two phases, from 17 October to 2 December 2015.^[1] The elected parliament will be entrusted with the task of reviewing the laws that were passed while a parliament was not in session.^[2]

In preparation for the election, security was tightened across the country with at least 185,000 troops supporting police, president Sisi made a televised appeal for Egyptians to vote, and in mid-October, public sector employees were given half a day's holiday to encourage them to take part. The strikingly low turnout of around 10 %, with "many angry at the government and its policies", was widely regarded as a set-back for the regime and a success for calls to boycotts from oppositional movements.^[3]

Background

The parliament is made up of 596 seats, with 448 seats elected through the individual candidacy system, 120 elected through winner-take-all party lists (with quotas for youth, women, Christians, and workers) and 28 selected by the president.^[4] The government commission that set the rules for the 2015 parliamentary elections drastically reduced the number of "list seats" (candidates who shared party affiliations or other alliances, and whose ranks had to include people under the age of thirty-five, women, Christians, and other traditionally underrepresented groups) from the 2011 election."^[5]

Almost 16,000 officials kept an eye on polling places during the election.^[6]

Procedure

First phase: Upper Egypt & West Delta

In the first phase, elections will be held from 17 to 28 October 2015 in the fourteen governorates of the Upper Egypt and West Delta regions, namely the governorates of Giza, Fayoum, Beni Suef, Minya, Asyut, New Valley, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, Aswan, Red Sea, Alexandria, Beheira, and Matruh.

For these governorates, the first round of elections takes place on 18 to 19 October for Egyptian residents, while it took place on 17 to 18 October for Egyptian expatriates. Runoffs will be held on 27 to 28 October for Egyptians residents, and on 26 to 27 October for Egyptian expatriates.^[7]

Nominations started on 1 September,^[1] and lasted until 12 September (with the exception of the Qena and Qoss districts, which were extended until 15 September),^[8] though candidates had until 15 September to submit the necessary medical tests.^[9] Campaigning for the first phase started on 29 September^[10] and ended on 15 October.^[11]

Second phase: Central and East Delta

In the second phase, elections took place from 21 November to 2 December 2015 in the remaining nine governorates of the Central Delta and East Delta regions, namely the governorates of Cairo, Qalyubia, Dakahlia, Monufia, Gharbia, Kafr el-Sheikh, Sharqia, Damietta, Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, North Sinai, and South Sinai.

For these governorates, the first round of elections took place on 22 to 23 November for Egyptian residents and 21 to 22 November for Egyptian expatriates. Runoffs were held on 1 to 2 December for Egyptian residents, and on 30 November to 1 December for Egyptian expatriates.^[7]

Campaigning started on 2 November and ended on 20 November 2015.^[12]

Candidates

On 16 September, the High Elections Committee announced the initial list of accepted candidates. While nine electoral lists were accepted, five more lists were rejected, including two of the three lists of the Egypt coalition (Egyptian Front & Independent Current Coalition) as well as the lists of Upper Egypt’s Voice, Call of Egypt and Knights of Egypt.^[13] After appealing to court, all rejected lists but the one by Upper Egypt's Voice were admitted. The final list of candidates for the first phase was announced on 28 September.^[7]

A total of 7 electoral lists are contesting the 120 fixed-list seats available in the four regional constituencies:

Accepted electoral lists
Name of the list	1st phase constituency		2nd phase constituency
Name of the list	North, Center & South Upper Egypt Division Constituency (45 seats)	West Delta Division Constituency (15 seats)	Cairo, South & Center Delta Division Constituency (45 seats)	East Delta Division Constituency (15 seats)
For the Love of Egypt (Fi Hob Misr)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Egypt coalition	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Call of Egypt (Nidaa Misr)	Yes	No	No	No
Independent National Reawakening Bloc (al-Sahwa al-Wataneya)	Yes	No	No	No
Al-Nour Party	No	Yes	Yes	No
Knights of Egypt (Forsan Misr)	No	Yes	No	No
Republican Alliance for Social Forces	No	No	Yes	No
Source: Mada Masr^[14]

In the first phase, 2,573 individual candidates are contesting 226 individual seats. Many parties are fielding individual candidates both on joint electoral lists and contesting the list-based seats.^[7]

Results

Results per party seat: