2025 Egyptian Senate election

2025 Egyptian Senate election

4–5 August 2025 (1st round) 27–28 August 2025 (2nd round)

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Senate elections were held in Egypt between 4 and 5 August 2025 in Egypt, with Egyptian expatriates voting between 1 and 2 August. Results were announced by the National Elections Authority (NEA) on 12 August 2025.

The election took place five years after the 2020 Egyptian Senate election, as required by the constitution. The Senate was re‑established following the 2019 Egyptian constitutional referendum, replacing the Shura Council which was abolished in 2014

The poll was held amid economic challenges, including high inflation and currency devaluation, alongside continued restrictions on political opposition. Several opposition and independent groups alleged unequal campaigning conditions and chose not to field candidates.

The Senate has 300 members, of which 200 are elected and 100 appointed by the president.

Of the elected members:

• 100 are chosen from single‑member constituencies using a two-round system.
• 100 are elected via a closed‑list proportional system in four list constituencies, with a 5% vote threshold.

According to the NEA, 428 candidates contested the 100 single‑member seats, including 186 independents and 242 party members The deadline for withdrawals was 20 July 2025.

For the party list seats, only one coalition — the National List for the Sake of Egypt — contested. It included over 20 pro‑government and allied parties, led by the Nation's Future Party (Mostaqbal Watan), running unopposed in all four list constituencies.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi cast his vote at a polling station in Heliopolis, Cairo.^[1]

Since the National List for the Sake of Egypt was unopposed in the list constituencies and surpassed the 5% vote threshold, the NEA awarded it all 100 list seats automatically. Five of the 100 constituency seats went to a second round.^[2]