Parliamentary elections in Egypt 1979

Early parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on June 7, 1979 in two rounds.

The second round was for the remaining 147 seats and was held on June 14th. After the experimental parliamentary elections in 1976 , in which three different factions of the Arab Socialist Union competed against each other, the country returned to multi-party politics under Anwar as-Sadat . This was confirmed in a referendum on the formation of new parties in April 1979.

Two candidates were elected from each of the 176 constituencies, with a second round of voting required if one or both candidates failed to get over 50% of the votes in the first round - or if none of the candidates were over 50% as Workers or peasants (each constituency had to be represented by at least one peasant or worker). In addition, 30 seats were reserved for women, and after the election the President appointed another 10 members.

About 1,600 candidates ran in this election, nearly 1,000 of them were independents. The result was a victory for the newly formed National Democratic Party of Nobel Peace Prize winner Anwar as-Sadat , which won 347 of the 392 seats.

Results

Political party	proportion of	Seats
National Democratic Party	88.5%	347
Socialist Labor Party	7.7%	30th
Independent	3.3%	13
Socialist Liberal Party	0.5%	2
total	100%	392

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Egypt (PDF; 21 kB) Inter-Parliamentary Union