Egyptian parliamentary election, 2010
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Composition of the People's Assembly of Egypt
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0.2%*The Egyptian parliamentary elections of 2010 first voting round was held in Egypt on 28 November 2010 and the second round was held on 5 December 2010.
The election was scheduled in two stages to form the Ninth Assembly since the adoption of the 1971 Constitution. 444 ordinary seats were contested with 64 additional seats reserved for women, while the President appointed 10 members, making a total of 518 seats.
Human rights groups said this was the "most fraudulent poll ever" in Egypt's history. It is considered to have been a factor in the Egyptian Revolution that occurred shortly afterwards in early 2011.
This election follows the Muslim Brotherhood completing the five-year parliamentary term in which it held on as the largest-ever minority bloc.
The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member constituencies. This voting method is also used in multi-member constituencies in what is referred to as an exhaustive counting system where one member is elected at a time and the process repeated until the number of vacancies is filled.
The election process will run in the three stages single member plurality, with millions of registered voters in the 222 constituencies.
Most of the political parties in Egypt have been advocating for a Party-list while the NPD insisted on the Single member plurality.
The election is the first election were 64 additional seats reserved for women.
The previous number of seats in the Assembly was 454 after the 2005 legislative election resulted in the following seat distribution in the Eighth Assembly:
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