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After all members of the newly-elected House of Representatives took the oath, Writer and Parliamentarian Farida al-Shobashy – who presided over the inaugural session – began the selection of the Speaker and two deputies through secret ballot after receiving candidacy requests.

At the beginning, Shobashy greeted the soul of late Chairman of National Elections Authority Lashin Ibrahim for running a successful electoral process.

Egypt’s Mostaqbal Watn (Nation’s Future) Party, which strongly backs President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, secured nearly 55 percent of the contested seats in a parliamentary election spread over several weeks, official results showed on Monday.

The results confirm the party’s position as a dominant force after it won nearly 75 percent of contested seats for Egypt’s newly recreated Senate in August.

Parliament was already controlled by Sisi supporters, but Nation’s Future sharply increased its share of seats to 315 from 57 in the 596-seat chamber.

The Egyptian National Elections Authority (NEA) will announce the final result of the House of Representatives runoff vote on Monday, declaring the names of winners of 100 seats for the run-off.

The second round includes constituencies from 13 out of the 27 governorates, with the run-offs being limited to candidates running under the individual system

The second and final day of the run-off elections in the second round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections began at 9am on Tuesday.

The second round includes constituencies from 13 out of the 27 governorates, with the run-offs being limited to candidates running under the individual system who will compete for the 101 remaining seats after securing 42 individual seats during the first round.

Polls in 13 Egyptian governorates opened at 9 AM local time on Monday, marking the beginning of the second and final day of voting in the run-off for the first stage of the country's parliamentary elections at home.

The National Election Authority (NEA), the state’s authority in charge of supervising elections, said the voting process on the first day went smoothly.

Judges and members of the public prosecution supervised the polling stations to ensure all standards of transparency, integrity, and adherence to relevant laws are applied, the NEA added.

Head of the National Elections Authority (NEA) Lasheen Ibrahim announced, on Monday, that the second phase of the House of Representatives elections has witnessed 29.5% voter turnout.

The electoral list led by pro-government Mostaqbal Watan Party has won the majority of votes in the second phase.

The second phase of the Egyptian House of Representatives elections began on Saturday across 13 governorates, lasting two days. During this period, 2,085 candidates compete on single-member district system in 70 constituencies, while the lists compete for 142 seats on the list PR system.

The turnout in the first stage was 28.06 percent, with the number of people casting their vote amounting to about 9 million out of the 31 million eligible voters in the 14 governorates

The electoral list led by Egypt’s Mostaqbal Watan Party has swept up the majority of votes in the first stage of the country’s parliament elections, Lasheen Ibrahim, head of the National Elections Authority, said in a press conference on Sunday.

This stage in the elections covered districts in the Western Delta and Upper Egypt.

The two-stage voting process for the House of Representatives that divides the country into two 14-governorate blocs in which eligible voters inside and out of Egypt to elect their local MPs, began on Tuesday, October 21. The 568-seat chamber is convened through a mixed closed-slate and independent electoral system. 

The closed-slate system is dominated by the Unified National List, headed by the pro-regime Nation’s Future Party. The three other competing lists include the Independent Alliance, Call of Egypt and Sons of Egypt, composed mostly of public figures and independents.