The window to file for Egypt’s House of Representatives election closed on Wednesday night, with 2,826 individuals entering the race and four party lists registered nationwide, the National Election Authority said.
According to the NEA statement, individual seats drew 2,826 candidates, while four lists applied to contest the list-based seats: The National List for Egypt, Generation, Your Voice for Egypt, and Call of Egypt.
The National List for Egypt submitted slates in all four super-constituencies: Cairo–Central & South Delta, North–Central–South Upper Egypt, West Delta, and East Delta. The Generation List filed in both East and West Delta, while Your Voice for Egypt, and Call of Egypt filed in West Delta.
Former ministers top the National List For Egypt ticket in Cairo–Central & South Delta, including former housing minister Assem El Gazzar (National Front) and former petroleum minister Tarek El-Molla (Nation’s Future). The list also includes sitting MPs such as Amira El Adly (from the Coordination’s Committee of Party’s Youth Leaders and Politicians) and Mohamed Eid Mahgoub, former head of the Supreme Judicial Council, running as an independent for Cairo.
In the North–Central–South Upper Egypt super-constituency, the Nation List For Egypt named current House deputy speaker Mohamed Abou El Enein (Nation’s Future Party), former labor minister Mohamed Saafan (Nation’s Future Party), and sitting MP Mostafa Bakry as an independent.
In the hours before the filing deadline, list lineups shifted. Tarek Radwan, chair of the House Human Rights Committee, joined the National List For Egypt for the Cairo super-constituency after being dropped from the Upper Egypt list.
By law, the House comprises 568 elected members—284 by individual seats and 284 by closed lists—plus up to 5% appointed by the president (28 seats), for a total of 596.
The National Election Authority opened candidate filing on Oct. 8. Voting will be held in two stages during November and December, with final results due in late December, per the published schedule.
