Parliamentary elections in Egypt 2010

Distribution of seats:

National Democratic Party , 420 seats

Independent (NDP-related), 53 seats

New Wafd party , 6 seats

National Progressive Unionist Party , 5 seats

al-Ghad party , 1 seat

other parties, 3 seats

other independents, 16 seats

Appointed members, 10 seats

The parliamentary elections in Egypt 2010 took place in a first round on November 28, 2010, runoff elections on December 5, 2010. The 508 seats of the Egyptian parliament were determined. The president appointed ten additional seats. Due to a mixture of obvious electoral fraud and boycott of the main opposition parties, the ruling National Democratic Party of Hosni Mubarak won almost 80% of the seats to be allocated.

Attendees

Among other things, the then banned Muslim Brotherhood wanted to take part in the elections as the largest opposition party. According to her own statements, she has been subjected to police persecution since the announcement. Around 150 members were arrested and released after a while. Just before election day, the group spoke of a thousand arrested members. The Muslim Brotherhood nominated 135 candidates for 508 seats. About a fifth of them were disqualified in advance by the electoral commission. In the last elections in 2005 , the Muslim Brotherhood won a fifth of the votes. Since the movement was banned, its members ran as independent candidates.

The opposition politician Mohammed el-Baradei called for a boycott of the election in September 2005. The Kifaya movement also called for a boycott.

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Protests against the election result in Cairo

There were violent clashes with the use of weapons during the elections. Four people were killed. There have been many reports of election fraud. Not all voters were allowed to the ballot box and vote buying was widespread.

According to the first official results, 207 of the 508 seats will go to the ruling party NDP after the first ballot. The Muslim Brotherhood was unable to secure a mandate in the first ballot. The turnout was 35 percent.

The runoff election took place on December 5th. Around 24 candidates from the Muslim Brotherhood would still be represented. However, like the New Wafd Party, it announced that it was boycotting the runoff election. The reasons given were the massive election fraud by the ruling party.

Overall result

Under these conditions, the President's Party won 420 of the 508 seats available, 70 went to independent candidates, 14 seats to other parties, including the Wafd Party with 6 seats and the Progressive National Unionist Party with 5 seats. The results for four additional seats were not disclosed "because of violence during the electoral process". The Muslim Brotherhood, the largest opposition party, has thus lost all of its 88 seats and none of the 100 recognized opposition leaders and previous independent parliamentarians have been able to regain their previous seat.

Political party		Seats	2005	change	proportion of
	National Democratic Party	420	330	+90	81.0%
	Independent (NDP)	53	0	+53	10.2%
	New Wafd party	6th	5	+1	1.1%
	Tajammu Party	5	1	+4	0.9%
	al-Ghad party	1	1	+0	0.2%
	Nasserist Party	0	0	+0	0.0%
	Liberal Party	0	0	+0	0.0%
	Social Justice Party	1	-	+1	0.2%
	Democratic generation party	1	-	+1	0.2%
	Democratic Peace Party	1	-	+1	0.2%
	Independent ( Muslim Brotherhood )	1	88	−87	0.2%
	Independent (other)	15th	19th	−4
	Still in the beginning	4th
	Appointed MPs	10	0	0	1.9%
total				518

Web links

• Kristina Bergmann: Rejected media in Egypt. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 22, 2010, accessed on October 22, 2010 : "Growing repression in the run-up to parliamentary elections" 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Parliamentary elections in Egypt will take place on November 28th. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. October 20, 2010, accessed October 21, 2010 . 
2. ↑ europeanforum.net, accessed on December 31, 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Karim El-Gawhary : Mubarak lets vote. In: the daily newspaper . November 22, 2010. Retrieved November 24, 2010 . 
4. ↑ House High victory for Mubarak's party in Egypt. In: ORF . November 29, 2010, accessed November 30, 2010 . 
5. ↑ Karim El-Gawhary: Ghostly calm in the polling stations. In: the daily newspaper. November 28, 2010, accessed December 1, 2010 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Mubarak's party wins in Egypt. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 1, 2010, accessed December 1, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Karim El-Gawhary: The opposition is getting out. In: the daily newspaper. December 2, 2010, accessed December 2, 2010 . 
8. ↑ europeanforum.net, accessed on December 31, 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ europeanforum.net, accessed on December 31, 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.