Egyptian parliamentary election, 2015

Egyptian parliamentary election, 2015

17 October – 2 December 2015

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

Background

The parliament will be 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. Almost 16,000 officials will keep an eye on polling places during the election.

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.

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

Second phase: Central and East Delta

In the second phase, elections are to be held 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 will take place on 22 to 23 November for Egyptian residents and 21 to 22 November for Egyptian expatriates. Runoffs will be held on 1 to 2 December for Egyptian residents, and on 30 November to 1 December for Egyptian expatriates.

Campaigning will start on 2 November and end on 20 November 2015.

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. 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.

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
	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

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.

Results

First phase

	Party	Ideology	Candidates	Run-off candidates	Run-offs %	Votes	Vote %	Seats
	Free Egyptians Party	Liberal democrats	111	64	56.63	1,009,083		41
	Nation's Future Party	Populism	89	64	51.68	702,965		26
	Al-Nour Party	Salafi Islamist	91	23	25.27	494,042		8
	New Wafd Party	National liberals	77	21	27.27	392,138		16
	Republican People's Party	Populism	42	14	33.33	198,822		11
	Democratic Peace Party	Nationalism	57	8	14.03	155,847		1
	Conference Party	National liberals	53	7	13.20	105,975		5
	Homeland Defenders Party	Populism	51	5	9.80	89,875		7
	Freedom Party	Former Ex-NDP	6	3	50.00	68,926		1
	Egyptian Social Democratic Party	Social liberals	41	5	12.19	56,922		3
	Egyptian Patriotic Movement	Ex-NDP	60	4	6.66	45,014		1
	My Homeland Egypt Party	Populism	20	3	15.00	29,971		1
	Modern Egypt Party		25	2	8.00	25,993		2
	Conservative	Conservatism	14	1	4.28	23,042		1
	Free Egyptian Building Party		11	1	9.09			1
	Leader Party		9	1	11.11			0
	Other/Independents	----
	Total

The results for expatriate voting during the first phase were announced on 20 October 2015.

Results for expatriate voting during the first round
Coalitions	Votes
For the Love of Egypt	15,529
Call of Egypt	3,076
Egypt	2,969
Independent National Reawakening Bloc	1,403

Boycotts

• Bread and Freedom Party
• Building and Development Party
• Civil Democratic Current (withdrew from the election for lack of funds)
• Freedom Egypt Party
• Homeland Party
• National Conciliation Party (withdrew from the election)
• Reawakening of Egypt (will not participate in the election)
• Revolutionary Socialists
• Social Justice Coalition (chose not to participate in the election)
• Strong Egypt Party
• Al-Wasat Party

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