Elected Shura in Egypt in 2007

Distribution of seats:

National Democratic Party , 84 seats

National Progressive Unionist Party , 1 seat

Independent, 3 seats

Appointed by the President, 44 seats

The election for the Shura Council , the upper house of the Egyptian parliament, took place in Egypt on June 11 and June 18, 2007 .

Of the total of 264 seats, 88 were elected every three years, and 44 more were appointed by the president.

There were 587 candidates for the 88 seats in 24 provinces. The main parties were the National Democratic Party (109 candidates) and the banned Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (whose 19 candidates ran as independents - President Husni Mubarak failed in an attempt to disqualify 17 of them). The elections were boycotted by the New Wafd Party and the Nasserist Party .

Egyptian media reported that 11 of the 88 seats were won unchallenged by the National Democratic Party. In total, the NDP received 70 seats in the first round of the election; one seat went to an Independent and one to the National Progressive Unionist Party (commonly known as "Tajammu"). The turnout was 23 percent. Of the 16 seats determined in the second round, the NDP received 14 and Independents two. The result was a total of 84 seats for the NDP, three for independents and one for the Tajammu.

Election day violence resulted in the death of a supporter of the independent candidates in East Governorate after fighting with supporters of the NDP.

Results

Political party	Seats
	1.	2.	Σ
National Democratic Party ( Al'Hizb Al Watani Al Democrati )	70	14th	84
Independent	1	2	3
National Progressive Unionist Party ( Hizb al Tagammo 'al Watani al Taqadommi al Wahdwawi )	1	0	1
total	72	16	88
The election was boycotted by the New Wafd Party and the Nasserist Party .

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} One killed, four wounded in Egyptian election-day violence Haaretz, June 11, 2007
2. ↑ derStandard.at
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Sup