Recent Elections:

Local Councils Elections
8 April 2008

Description of Electoral System:

(courtesy of IFES election guide)

The President is elected by popular vote to serve a 6-year term. In the People's Assembly (Majlis al-Sha'b), 444 members are elected by popular vote to serve a 5-year term and 10 members are appointed by the president to serve a 5-year term. In the Advisory Council (Majlis al-Shura), 176 members are elected
by popular vote to serve a 6-year term and 88 members are appointed
by the president to serve a 6-year term

Electoral systems snapshot

(Courtesy of International IDEA)

*Click on links for term definitions

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Workshops & Conferences

BRIDGE Training Workshops

IFES Egypt and UNDP are organizing a training on Voter information and electoral systems modules, designed for Media specialists.

This workshop training will take place in June 22, 2008, and last for 5 days.

Municipal Elections

(courtesy of  UNDP-Pogar)

The latest local elections in Egypt took place on April 8, 2008. The number of eligible voters was 35 million and the number of candidates was 70,000 who contested 52,000 local councils seats. The ruling National Democratic Party fielded 55,000 candidates. The number of general electoral committees was 318 and number of local committees was 41,000. In addition to the National Party, four political parties participated in the elections, namely Al-Wafd, The Rally Party, The Nasserite Party and Al-Jeel Party. Read more

Most Recent Elections

(courtesy of  Wikipedia)

The Egyptian presidential election of 2005, held on September 7, 2005, was the first allegedly contested presidential election in Egypt's history. Hosni Mubarak, the incumbent President of Egypt, won a fifth consecutive six-year term in office, with official results showing he won 88.6% of the votes cast. A prominent opposition candidate, Ayman Nour of the Tomorrow Party, is estimated to have received 12% of the vote and Numan Gumaa received 5-7%. Mubarak was sworn in for his new term on September 27.