Egypt’s four dominant pro-government parties have captured 82% of all declared seats in the 2025 parliamentary elections, according to aggregated results from both proportional representation and individual races in the first and second rounds as of Dec. 14.
The process, marred by irregularities, has only deepened concerns about the erosion of electoral integrity under the country’s tightly controlled political system.
The ruling Nation’s Future Party has extended its grip on parliament with 171 seats—120 by party lists and 51 by individual candidacies—commanding 45% of the declared total. It is trailed by the regime-aligned Homeland Defenders Party with 69 seats (53 list, 16 individual), cementing its position as the second-largest bloc.
In third place is the National Front Party with 54 seats (45 list, 9 individual), accounting for 14.1% of the vote. Independent candidates, often with limited media access or political backing, managed to win 21 seats, including 13 individual and 8 from lists, representing just 5.5%. The bulk of these seats were in Giza (4) and Fayoum (3), with the remainder scattered across Cairo, Sharqiya, Qalyoubia, Port Said, Damietta, and Qena.
Trailing further behind were the Republican People’s Party with 18 seats, the centrist Justice Party with 10, and the Egyptian Social Democratic Party with 9—all list-based. The Reform and Development Party and the historically rooted Wafd Party both claimed 8 seats, with Wafd winning a lone individual seat in Manshiyat Al-Qanater, Giza.
Of parliament’s individual seats, a staggering 186 remain undecided, pending results from ongoing runoff contests. All 284 list-based seats have been decided.
Field reporting by Al Manassa reveals a pattern of voter suppression, ballot-buying, and manufactured turnout, including fake lines staged outside polling stations to simulate civic participation. These tactics continued despite public condemnations from the presidency—a gesture widely seen as political theater.
A senior party insider, speaking anonymously, had told Al Manassa that the unprecedented scenes playing out at the polls reflect “infighting among security agencies over who controls the electoral narrative.”
In a leaked video obtained and verified by Al Manassa, Shaaban Heikal, the Nation’s Future secretary in Badrasheen, confirms political coordination between the country’s ruling party and its junior loyalists.
“We’re carrying the National Front and Homeland Protectors on our backs. That’s what the political leadership demands. That’s what the country wants,” he said during a closed-door meeting.
The remarks echo Al Manassa’s earlier reporting on growing interference by Egypt’s intelligence services, which reportedly submitted a cautionary memo to El-Sisi citing public unrest and election law violations.
A legal expert familiar with State Council proceedings highlighted the suspicious frequency and timing of rulings by the Higher Administrative Court, which invalidated results in 30 constituencies.
After the overturning of results in 19 constituencies, Egypt’s judiciary descended into internal conflict. The Judges Club, which represents the ordinary judiciary and prosecution, distanced itself from supervising the vote.
That sparked rebuttals from both the Administrative Prosecution and the State Litigation Authority, turning what began as an electoral controversy into a public judicial schism.
The first phase of voting—before 68.5% of its results were thrown out—was plagued by vote-rigging, coercion, and systemic obstruction, including the failure to distribute tally sheets from many polling stations to party agents or observers.
The National Election Authority has since announced the start of the electoral blackout ahead of second-phase runoffs in 55 constituencies. Egyptians abroad will vote on Monday and Tuesday, while domestic voting is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Official results are expected on Dec. 25.
