Egypt’s National Election Authority (NEA) on Saturday announced the final results of parliamentary elections described as the longest in the country’s political history, with the pro-government Nation’s Future Party securing the largest bloc of seats.
NEA head Judge Hazem Badawi said voter turnout reached 32.41%, with 22,657,211 voters casting ballots out of 69,891,913 eligible voters, according to official figures.
The Official Gazette is expected to publish in the coming hours a presidential decree appointing members of the House of Representatives under the constitution, following President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s decision last Thursday to end the sixth parliamentary session.
The new lower chamber is expected to convene within days. The Nation’s Future Party will hold the majority of seats, followed by independents with 105 seats, then the Homeland Defenders Party, the National Front, and the Republican People’s Party.
Opposition representation includes the Justice Party and the Egyptian Social Democratic Party with 11 seats each, followed by the Wafd Party and the Reform and Development Party with nine seats each. Al-Nour Party secured six seats, Tagammu five, while the Conservative Party and the Awareness Party each won one seat.
Badawi said the runoff results in 27 constituencies—previously annulled by rulings of the Higher Administrative Court—matched the vote counts announced earlier by general committees.
Official data showed uneven voter participation across constituencies, with particularly low turnout recorded in some districts in Cairo and Giza. In several cases, winning candidates secured seats with vote shares approaching 3%. By contrast, turnout was higher in constituencies in Upper Egypt and other governorates.
Despite violations such as voter mobilization and vote buying documented by Al Manassa, the NEA head’s statements painted a different picture.
He said the vote would not have been possible without “the people’s awareness and their keenness to protect democracy,” praising judicial bodies and state institutions for what he described as full neutrality and adherence to the constitution and the law.
Badawi said the authority had responded to criticism and complaints, adding that it had taken action against practices it believed could affect electoral integrity.
The NEA’s role, he said, would continue beyond election day, with plans to launch voter awareness and political education programs in villages, cities, schools, and universities to promote sustained political participation.
He also said the authority would organize training programs for political parties on preparing electoral lists, after legal errors excluded several lists by vetting committees—a decision upheld by court rulings.
The closed, winner-takes-all list system used in the elections has faced widespread criticism, particularly in light of the absence of competing lists against the pro-government National List for Egypt.
The NEA had previously annulled the results in 19 constituencies after El-Sisi called on the authority to scrutinize violations more closely.
