The first round of elections to the lower house of the Egyptian parliament, the People’s Assembly, took place on 28 November. The second round took place on Sunday 5 December.

The Higher Elections Commission provides the following information about the People’s Assembly:

“The People’s Assembly is the (lower house) of Egypt’s bicameral legislature. … It is made up of 518 members, 508 of which are elected, at least half of which must be workers and farmers and 10 of which are appointed by the President of the Republic. Included in the 508 elected members are 64 seats reserved for women elected from 32 women-only districts.”

Egypt is not an electoral democracy and this election was marked by reports of violence and irregularities. The results are available in Arabic here.

Ahram is reporting that the ruling National Democratic Party has won 439 seats after the second ballot. The opposition Wafd party returned six deputies, the same as in the previous legislature. The Tagammu party won five seats, an increase of four. Four other opposition parties, Ghad, Geel (generation), El-Adalah (social justice), and El-Salam (social peace), won one seat each. Crucially, the report suggests that the Muslim Brotherhood also won only a single seat. In the last parliament it had 88 deputies, even though they were elected as independents. That said, officially they withdrew from the second ballot, citing irregularities and intimidation at the first ballot. The net result, though, is that there will be even less opposition representation in the new legislature.