Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 24–25 October and 7–8 November 2020 to elect 568 members of the House of Representatives. The election resulted in a landslide victory for the Nation's Future Party, which secured 316 of the 596 seats, increasing its representation from the previous parliament.

Date The elections were initially expected to be held in April or May 2020. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ordered parliament to freeze its activities on 1 October 2019

Date Phase Eligible voters21–23 OctoberRound 1 of the first phase for citizens abroadAlexandria, Giza, Beheira, Matruh, Faiyum, Beni Suef, Minya, Asyut, New Valley, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, Aswan and Red Sea citizens who reside abroad24–25 OctoberRound 1 of the first phase for citizens in EgyptAlexandria, Giza, Beheira, Matruh, Faiyum, Beni Suef, Minya, Asyut, New Valley, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, Aswan and Red Sea citizens4–6 NovemberRound 1 of the second phase for citizens abroadCairo, Qalyubia, Dakahlia, Monufia, Sharqia, Gharbiya, Kafr El Sheikh, Damietta, Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, North Sinai and South Sinai citizens who reside abroad7–8 NovemberRound 1 of the second phase for citizens in EgyptCairo, Qalyubia, Dakahlia, Monufia, Sharqia, Gharbiya, Kafr El Sheikh, Damietta, Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, North Sinai and South Sinai citizens21–23 NovemberRound 2 of the first phase for citizens abroadAlexandria, Giza, Beheira, Matruh, Faiyum, Beni Suef, Minya, Asyut, New Valley, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, Aswan and Red Sea citizens who reside abroad23–24 NovemberRound 2 of the first phase for citizens in EgyptAlexandria, Giza, Beheira, Matruh, Faiyum, Beni Suef, Minya, Asyut, New Valley, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, Aswan and Red Sea citizens4–6 DecemberRound 2 of the second phase for citizens abroadCairo, Qalyubia, Dakahlia, Monufia, Sharqia, Gharbiya, Kafr El Sheikh, Damietta, Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, North Sinai and South Sinai citizens who reside abroad7–8 DecemberRound 2 of the second phase for citizens in EgyptCairo, Qalyubia, Dakahlia, Monufia, Sharqia, Gharbiya, Kafr El Sheikh, Damietta, Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, North Sinai and South Sinai citizens

The final results will be announced by the National Elections Authority on 14 December 2020.

Electoral system A total of 568 seats will be elected in a form of parallel voting; 284 of them will be elected using a two-round system in 142 constituencies and the other 284 will be elected using party lists in four constituencies.

PR constituencies # Constituency name No. of seats Governorates Election date1Cairo, Central and Southern Delta 2Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 3Western Delta 4Eastern Delta

TR constituencies # Name No. of constituencies No. of TR seats PR constituency Election date1Cairo Cairo, Central and Southern Delta 2Giza Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 3Dakahlia Cairo, Central and Southern Delta 4Sharqia Eastern Delta 5Beheira Western Delta 6Alexandria Western Delta 7Qalyubia Cairo, Central and Southern Delta 8Minya Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 9Sohag Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 10Gharbia Cairo, Central and Southern Delta 11Asyut Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 12Monufia Cairo, Central and Southern Delta 13Kafr El Sheikh Cairo, Central and Southern Delta 14Faiyum Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 15Qena Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 16Beni Suef Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 17Aswan Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 18Ismailia Eastern Delta 19Damietta Eastern Delta 20Luxor Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 21Red Sea Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 22New Valley Northern, Central and Southern Upper Egypt 23Matruh Western Delta 24Port Said Eastern Delta 25North Sinai Eastern Delta 26South Sinai Eastern Delta 27Suez Eastern Delta Total

Parties Sisi 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 2015 Egyptian parliamentary election. The For the Love of Egypt list, which ran in 2015, was closely associated with the GID.

One alliance that will contest the election, called the National Unified Coalition, includes the Nation's Future Party, New Wafd Party, the Homeland Defenders Party, Modern Egypt Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, the Republican People's Party, the Reform and Development Party, Tagammu Party, the Will of a Generation Party, the Egyptian Freedom Party, the Justice Party, and the Congress Party. Various parties on the list were "dissatisfied" with the amount of seats that were allocated; numerous members resigned from the Republican People's Party. There was dissension in the Wafd Party over whether the party should run as part of the list, with party head Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka maintaining that the party would participate in the National List, which the party's supreme committee voted against. The Nation’s Future Party also witnessed turmoil and faced various resignations, including MP Mohamed Aboul Enein, who announced he would run as an independent.

Other lists include the Call of Egypt and the Sons of Egypt.

The Conservative Party stated that it would run an electoral list known as “the Choice”, which included the Union Party, headed by Hossam Badrawi, the Arab Democratic Nasserist Party, the Revolutionary Guards Party, and the Independent’s Coalition headed by Hisham Anani.

The Patriotic Current, which was announced in September by former governor of Alexandria, Tarek al-Mahdi, expected to take part in the election "with 25 parties", though the alliance was excluded from the election.

Many different figures, including former MP Zyad Elelaimy, Hisham Fouad, Omar El-Shenety and Hossam Moanis, were arrested on 25 June 2019 on charges of "bringing down the state"; however, the people involved were part of an alliance called the Coalition of Hope that was considering contesting the parliamentary election. Other organizations involved in the alliance included the Civil Democratic Movement. One source indicated that the reason for the arrests was the unwillingness of the alliance to cooperate with the NSA. They were subsequently convicted in 2021 and given prison sentences. Elelaimy was released after serving three and a half years.

Process

First phase

Number of seats for women and political parties they belong to in the 1st phase of the House of Representatives elections in Egypt; detailed in diagram:

Second phase

Results

Maps

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