Despite documented violations and allegations of vote-buying, Egypt’s second-round parliamentary election districts were allowed to proceed, with the National Election Authority confirming results on Tuesday.
Forty candidates secured seats outright, while 202 others are set to face runoffs for 101 seats.
While the pro-government Future of the Nation Party captured the lion’s share of victories, a surge of independent candidates, 117 in total, made it through to the next round, signaling cracks in the party’s monopoly.
FNP ran 65 candidates, winning 22 seats, losing 6, and sending 37 to runoffs. Homeland Protectors lost 10 out of its 35 candidates, clinched six victories, and advanced 19.
The National Front Party, with 23 candidates, won 4, lost 5, and saw 14 proceed to the second round.
The Republican People’s Party entered three candidates, won two, and lost one.
In a particularly symbolic blow to the ruling party, FNP defector Khaled Mashhoor ran as an independent and beat the party’s official candidate Khaled El-Ashqar in Minya El-Qamh—the home turf of FNP Secretary-General Ahmed Abdel Gawad.
Judge Tarek El-Khouli won unopposed in Old Cairo, benefiting from the absence of state-aligned challengers and holding the top ballot position.
Candidate Monica Magdy, who ran in Shubra, Rod El-Farag, and Boulaq Abu El-Ela, announced plans to file a legal challenge against FNP candidate Mohamed Abdel Rahman Rady, citing ballot rigging and voter coercion.
She alleged Rady used “political money and hired thugs” to secure over 18,000 votes. “Most ballot tally records haven’t been released. The numbers don’t add up. Some boxes were tampered with,” she said in a Facebook post.
“This isn’t about winning or losing—it’s about exposing a truth buried by force and bribes.”
Rady dismissed the claims as “baseless Facebook chatter.” “No official complaints were filed. Had I done anything wrong, I wouldn’t have served as MP without public backlash,” he told Al Manassa.
But Magdy livestreamed alleged incidents on election day, showing voters receiving meals and 200-pound bribes under Rady's campaign posters. In another clip, she claimed the schools were empty while buses brought in staged crowds. She also said police detained her mother and sister.
The Justice Party—widely seen as part of the opposition—won a symbolic victory through its leader Abdel Moneim Imam in Tagammoa, Shorouk, and Badr. Imam previously served in parliament under the now-defunct National Unified List.
In that same district, FNP’s Mohamed El-Hennawy also secured a seat. Of the Justice Party’s 13 candidates, only Imam won; three others are in runoffs, including a showdown in El-Mahalla against Tagammu’s sitting MP Ahmed Belal.
The Conservatives Party managed just one seat—Islam Akmal Kortam—from its four candidates. The Social Democratic Party, despite running 11 candidates, emerged empty-handed.
Four independents also claimed seats, including long-serving opposition figures Ahmed Farghaly in Port Said, and Diaa El-Din Dawoud in Damietta.
The second phase mirrored the first. Vote-buying, voter manipulation, campaign materials at polling stations, and fake crowds. But unlike phase one, which saw President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi publicly call for a review, phase two has so far escaped scrutiny.
Earlier, the National Election Authority canceled 19 races after the first round, only to see the Higher Administrative Court issue 30 unappealable rulings overturning those results. Runoffs in those districts were scheduled for Dec. 8–9 abroad, and Dec. 10–11 inside Egypt.
