Egypt Elections 2011

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12:14 Egypt's Shura Council poll results to be announced Saturday: SEC

10:57 Egypt Shura Council election results expected Wednesday evening

14:21 April 6 to parliament: Congratulations, time to work for those who chose you

00:27 Former US President Carter praises Egypt elections

12:59 Re-runs and run-offs in last round of elections begin

16:20 Results of phase one of election's third round to be announced on Saturday: SEC

12:55 Egypt Elections: Full results after round 2

12:20 Another win for the Freedom and Justice Party in North Sinai

11:54 Brotherhood win and liberals are second in South Sinai

14:40 Final round of Egypt's parliamentary elections kicks off

15:34 Results of second round of Egypt parliamentary elections

14:11 Freedom and Justice Party sweeps second round run-off elections

12:42 Brotherhood's FJP wins 10 out of 10 seats in Sharqiya

19:28 Voter turnout up in second round: Electoral Commission

18:15 Six Brotherhood FJP lists secure 39 per cent of second round votes

18:04 Sohag constituents outvote Al-Nour over Brotherhood’s FJP

17:58 Brotherhood’s FJP shows supremacy in Bani Swief

17:52 Al-Nour candidates face-off with Brotherhood, independent in Giza’s fourth constituency

15:42 Polling station employee detained in Sohag on vote rigging charges

12:33 RECAP : Estimated Seat Breakdown after First round of elections

20:23 Second round of Egypt elections wraps up uneventfully

19:10 Mubarak hometown residents revel in free parliament vote

11:42 Elections for electoral lists postponed in three governorates

17:06 Free Egyptians apologises for NDP-linked parliamentary candidate

11:26 Court ruling gives detained activist @Alaa Abdel-Fattah right to vote

18:42 6 April Youth Movement launches campaign to help voters

14:37 George Issac demands MB and Salafists reveal their source of funding

13:03 Egypt expats begin 2nd round voting

10:16 Egypt rulers: Parliament won't be representative

19:07 Supreme Administrative Court orders re-elections in Cairo’s El-Sahel due to violations

Egypt Elections Watch
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Who's Who

Osama El-Ghazali Harb

Yasser Borhami

Ziad Al-Eleimi

Chronicles of day 1 of Egypt's historic post-Mubarak People's Assembly

Egypt's newly elected People's Assembly got into gear; Brotherhood crowned in Parliament; protesters organised marches to voice their demands to MPs

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Egypt's Shura Council elections kick off

About 25 million Egyptians are expected to cast their vote in the first post-Mubarak Shura Council (upper house) elections starting this Sunday morning

Egypt's post-Mubarak legislative life begins amid tension and divisions

Egypt's post-revolution People's Assembly is to open with procedural meetings Monday after Islamists take 70 per cent of its seats

In search of a parliamentary alliance

Following a three-part electoral process, Egypt has elected a new People’s Assembly, with two thirds of its seats dominated by Islamists

3rd-round parliamentary run-offs wrap up in 9 governorates

The 3rd and final round of Egypt's first post-revolution elections draw to close Wednesday amid scattered reports of irregularities

Free Egyptians party announces boycott of upper house elections

In a press conference the liberal party announces that it will boycott the upper house elections and calls the vote 'a waste of time'

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Laws and Processes

Egypt’s Main Political Rights Law

The “Law on the Exercise of Political Rights” regulates the manner in which citizens can vote and run for office.

The Concise Idiot’s Guide to the Egyptian Elections

101 on the seat breakdown, when and where to vote and basic campaign regulations for the lower and upper houses of Egyptian Parliament (People's Assembly and Shura Council)

The People’s Assembly law

The “People’s Assembly Law” and the “Shura Council Law” regulate the selection and performance of the two houses of parliament.

The Shura Council Law

The “People’s Assembly Law” and the “Shura Council Law” regulate the selection and performance of the two houses of parliament, one of three laws governing the parliamentary elections.

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