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The Parliament of Egypt is made up of 596 seats, with 448 seats elected through the single-member districts, 120 elected through party block vote in which party list must win more than 50% of the votes to win all seats however if no list achieves the threshold, a second round is held between top two parties and the list with the most votes wins.
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]
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.
Egypt was without a parliament for three years. The parliament was dissolved in June 2012. [6] On 8 July 2012, President Mohamed Morsi said he would override the edict that had dissolved the country's elected lawmakers, but that was followed by his deposition. [7] [8] Elections for parliament were held from 17 October 2015 to 2 December 2015. [9]
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. [6] Campaigning started on 2 November and ended on 20 November 2015. [11]
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]
Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt in three-stage elections in November and December 2005 to elect 444 of the 454 members of the People's Assembly. The elections formed the Eighth Assembly since the adoption of the 1971 Constitution. A total of 5267 candidates competed in 222 constituencies for the Assembly's 444 elected seats. [1]
0–9. 1883 Egyptian parliamentary election; 1923–24 Egyptian parliamentary election; 1925 Egyptian parliamentary election; 1926 Egyptian parliamentary election