"Monday will see the start of voting for the 596-member House of Representatives. Of those seats, 284 are individual seats, while another 284 are filled via a closed party list system. Twenty-eight more members are appointed by presidential decree. A quarter of the seats must be held by women. There are 70 counting committees, and voting will be conducted across 5,606 polling stations, according to Egyptian media."
"Fourteen governorates vote in the first phase and 13 vote in the second. Results for the voting may not be fully known before the end of December. Phase one includes the governorates of Alexandria, Assiut, Aswan, Beheira, Beni Suef, Fayoum, Giza, Luxor, Matrouh, Minya, New Valley, Qena, Red Sea, and Sohag. Phase two includes Cairo, Daqahlia, Damietta, Gharbia, Ismailia, Kafr El-Sheikh, Menoufia, North Sinai, Port Said, Qalyubia, Sharqia, South Sinai, and Suez."
Voting begins in a two-phase process to elect Egypt's 596-member House of Representatives. The chamber comprises 284 individual seats, 284 closed party-list seats, and 28 presidential appointees. A quarter of seats are reserved for women. Expatriate voting took place on November 7 and 8, with phase-one voting covering 14 governorates and phase two covering 13 governorates. There are 70 counting committees and 5,606 polling stations. Phase one results will be announced on November 18. If run-offs are required, international voting will occur in early December and in-country run-offs on December 3 and 4, with final results announced December 11.
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