Egypt court annuls House election results in many constituencies over violations

CAIRO – 30 November 2025: Egypt’s Higher Administrative Court on Saturday annulled the results of the the 2025 House of Representatives' elections in 27 constituencies across ten of the 14 governorates included in the first phase of voting, local media reported.

The ruling comes after determining that serious irregularities had compromised the integrity of the vote, the court said.

The court issued its final rulings on dozens of appeals, expanding the number of cancelled districts beyond the 19 previously announced by the National Election Authority (NEA).

In districts where some candidates secured outright victories while others were headed to a runoff, the court referred challenges to the winners’ membership validity to the Court of Cassation.

Meanwhile the annulment applied only to candidates who had been declared eligible for the runoff.

Another 100 appeals were dismissed on procedural grounds after the court found their filers lacked legal standing.

The largest number of cancellations came in Giza Governorate, where six districts were annulled, including El-Badrashin, Boulaq El-Dakrour, Al-Omraniya, Al-Haram, Monshat Al-Qanater and Giza Department section.

Voters cast their ballots in the first phase of House of Representatives' 2025 elections in Giza governorate. Al Qahera News

Other affected constituencies were spread across Fayoum, Minya, Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan, New Valley, Sohag, Assiut and Beheira.

The NEA had nullified results of individual elections in 19 constitutions on 18 November, based on violations it had documented.

The broader cancellations follow directives by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who had requested the authority to “thoroughly review … the events that occurred in some constituencies where individual candidates competed” and the appeals submitted regarding them.

He asked the authority to “enhance the transparency of procedures by making sure that each candidate’s representative had received a copy of the vote tally from the sub-committee.”

The president urged the authority “not to hesitate to make the correct decision when it is not possible to determine the true will of the voters, whether by fully annulling this stage of the elections or partially canceling it in one or more constituencies, provided that the elections for those areas are held at a later date.”

He further requested that the authority publicize the measures taken in response to electoral campaign violations, “to ensure effective monitoring of the campaigns, prevent them from exceeding legal boundaries, and avoid recurrence in the remaining election rounds.”

Voting in the 19 previously annulled districts will now be repeated, with overseas ballots scheduled for 1–2 December, domestic voting on 3–4 December, and results expected on 11 December.

The first phase of the parliamentary vote saw 1,281 individual candidates compete across 70 districts in 14 governorates, with 35 million voters eligible to cast ballots at 5,606 polling stations.