2015 Egyptian parliamentary election

The parliament is made up of 596 seats, with 448 seats elected through the single member districts, 120 elected through party bloc vote in which party list should win 50%+ votes to win all seats however if no list achieved the threshold, a second round held between top two parties and the list with the most votes wins. Party list contain quotas for youth, women, Christians, and workers. Single member districts consists of 1-member district, 2-member districts, 3-member district and 4-member districts, winner should win 50%+ of the votes, if no one achieved the threshold a second round held between top candidates (candidates number should be the double of contested seat number) and the candidate with the most votes wins. In addition, 28 are selected by the president.[4] The government commission that set the rules for the 2015 parliamentary elections drastically reduced the number of "list seats" (candidates who shared party affiliations or other alliances, and whose ranks had to include people under the age of thirty-five, women, Christians, and other traditionally underrepresented groups) from the 2011 election."[5]

On 16 September, the High Elections Committee announced the initial list of accepted candidates. While nine electoral lists were accepted, five more lists were rejected, including two of the three lists of the Egypt coalition (Egyptian Front & Independent Current Coalition) as well as the lists of Upper Egypt's Voice, Call of Egypt and Knights of Egypt.[12] After appealing to court, all rejected lists but the one by Upper Egypt's Voice were admitted. The final list of candidates for the first phase was announced on 28 September.[6]

A total of 7 electoral lists are contesting the 120 fixed-list seats available in the four regional constituencies:

In the first phase, 2,573 individual candidates contested in 226 individual seats. Many parties are fielding individual candidates both on joint electoral lists and contesting the list-based seats.[6]

A number of parties boycotted the election, claiming that the process was unfair. These included the following:

• Bread and Freedom Party[17]
• Building and Development Party[18]
• Civil Democratic Current (withdrew from the election for lack of funds)[19]
• Freedom Egypt Party[17]
• Homeland Party[20]
• National Conciliation Party (withdrew from the election)[21]
• Reawakening of Egypt (will not participate in the election)[22]
• Revolutionary Socialists[23]
• Social Justice Coalition (chose not to participate in the election)[24]
• Strong Egypt Party[17]
• Al-Wasat Party[25]

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