Egypt’s Senate runoff election kicks off, 10 candidates compete in 5 governorates

CAIRO – 25 August 2025: Egypt’s Senate runoff election kicked off on Monday for Egyptians abroad, and is expected to continue for two consecutive days, in line with the official electoral timetable.

The National Elections Authority (NEA), Under Counselor Hazem Badawi, on Sunday announced that the run-off covers constituencies in the governorates of Gharbia, Ismailia, Beni Suef, Luxor, and the New Valley.

 

The run-off voting abroad is taking place in 136 polling stations in 117 countries worldwide, under the supervision of Egyptian ambassadors and diplomats, according to the NEA.

The voting process officially began at 10 pm Sunday, corresponding to 9 am in New Zealand, the first Egyptian embassy to open its ballot boxes for the runoff round.

The NEA will hold press conferences at 7 pm on Monday and Tuesday to update the public on the progress of the elections abroad.

 

The voting in the Senate runoff round inside Egypt is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.

Ten candidates are competing under the individual system for the five remaining seats across the five governorates where the runoff will take place, the NEA said.

Egypt’s 2025 Senate Election kicked off on August 2 and 2 for Egyptians living abroad and was held domestically on August 4 and 5. Polling stations opened their doors at 9:00 AM, to receive voters wishing to cast their ballots until 9 pm.

The elections held under the supervision of judicial authority advisors, with monitoring from various civil society organizations and both local and international media outlets.

 

A total of 424 candidates competed in the individual seats—183 of them are independents, and 241 are affiliated with political parties. Additionally, one electoral list titled “The National List for Egypt,” which includes 200 candidates and covers the four electoral districts designated for the list-based system.

On August 12, Chairman of Egypt’s National Elections Authority Judge Hazem Badawi, announced that the number of voters who cast their ballots in the 2025 Senate Election are 11,837,882 voters, at a rate of 17.1% of the total voter database.

He noted that the number of votes registered in the voter database are 69,333,313 voters and the number of valid votes are 11,321,070 votes, representing 95.63% of the total turnout.

The number of invalid votes was 516,818, representing 4.36% of the total turnout according to Judge Badawi.

In the list system, Egypt’s Chairman of Egypt’s National Elections Authority announced in a press conference that a single list, called the "National List for Egypt," includes 12 political parties, ran for candidacy in each of the four constituencies designated for lists. The ballot count resulted in receiving more than 5% of the votes of registered voters.

The turnout in the 2025 Senate elections, announced by the National Elections Authority, was the highest since the Senate establishment. This compares favorably to the 2020 Senate elections, in which 8,959,035 voters cast their ballots, representing a turnout of 14.23%, and to the 2012 Shura Council elections, in which approximately 6,043,000 voters cast their ballots, representing 12.9%.