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Elections in Egypt are held for the president and a bicameral legislature. The president of Egypt is elected for a six-year term by popular vote after draft amendments to the 2013 constitution altered the presidential term limits from the original four years to six years. [1] Suffrage is universal and compulsory for every Egyptian citizen over 18.
Presidential elections were held in Egypt in December 2023, as announced by the National Election Authority, [2] after speculation that the elections might be held earlier than expected. [3] Candidate registration was from 5–14 October 2023 and the election was held in Egypt from 10 to 12 December; [2] expatriates voted from 1–3 December. [4]
The elections were initially expected to be held in April or May 2020. [2] President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ordered parliament to freeze its activities on 1 October 2019 and placed the National Security Agency (NSA) in charge of creating lists of candidates as the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) had not satisfactorily selected candidates in the previous election. [3]
Before 2005, the Parliament chose a candidate for the presidency and the people voted, in a referendum, whether or not they approved the proposed candidate for president. After the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, a new presidential election was held 2012, it was the first free and fair elections in Egypt's political history. [1]
Official figures showed that 25,578,233 people voted in the elections, and the election had a turnout of 47.5% (lower than the 2012 election's 52%), with el-Sisi winning with 23.78 million votes, 96.91%, [9] ten million more votes than former president Mohamed Morsi (who garnered 13 million votes against his opponent in the close runoff of the ...
The election was the first-ever multi-party election in the history of Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule. Ten parties were set to take part; the leading candidates were: Hosni Mubarak of the National Democratic Party; Numan Gumaa of the New Wafd Party; Ayman Nour of the El-Ghad Party
It was the second presidential election in Egypt's history with more than one candidate, following the 2005 election, and the first presidential election after the 2011 Egyptian revolution which ousted president Hosni Mubarak, during the Arab Spring. However, Morsi's presidency was brief and short-lived.
Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt from 28 November 2011 to 11 January 2012, [1] following the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, after which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) dissolved Parliament. However the dissolution was ruled unconstitutional and Parliament was reinstated.