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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.
Cartoon by Akher Saa showing the Wafd crushing their opponents after the 1936 election: "I can crush you... but I don't want to get my hands dirty!" Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt in May 1936. [1] The result was a victory for the Wafd Party, which won 169 of the 232 seats. [1]
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]
While parliamentary elections in the major cities are often fixed by the ruling party, elections in Upper Egypt—the poorest and most underdeveloped part of the country where approximately 40% of Egypt's population live—are more free, with the ruling party "recruiting whoever happened to win." According to journalist Peter Hessler, neglect ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 3 January 1950, with a second round on 10 January. [1] In the parliament of 319-seats, 225 went to the Wafd Party, 28 to the Saadist Institutional Party, 26 to the Liberal Constitutional Party, and 40 to minor parties and independents. They were the last parliamentary elections that took place under ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 24 May 1926. [1] The result was a victory for the Wafd Party, which won 150 of the 215 seats. [1] The ruling Ittihad Party led by Prime Minister Ahmed Ziwar Pasha and Minister of Finance Yahya Ibrahim Pasha, while clinging to power, was too weak to carry out an effective campaign. It failed to ...
Early parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 6 April 1987, with a second round for nine seats on 13 April. [1] They followed a change in the electoral law, approved by a referendum in February, which would allow independent candidates to run in the election.
Early parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 29 November 1990, with a second round for 261 seats on 6 December. [1] They followed a referendum in October on the early dissolution of Parliament due to issues surrounding the legality of the 1987 elections.