By Ahram Online –
The Free Egyptians Party said it won thirty-six seats, the most out of the political parties contesting the individual seats. Mostaqbal Watan (‘Future of Homeland’) came in second with thirty seats. The Wafd Party won seventeen, according to its Media Advisor Yasser Hassan. The liberal Egyptian Social Democratic Party secured three seats and the Nour Party won ten seats, mostly in the governorates of Beheira and Alexandria.
Nour Party chairman Younis Makhyoun said he expects the party to win more seats in the second round of the elections.
Al Masry Al Youm reported that individuals who served as members of parliament under former President Hosni Mubarak won nearly 30 percent of individual seats in the first round of the elections.
Secretary General of Egypt’s House of Representatives Khaledal-Sadr said on Thursday that candidates who won seats willbe able to obtain their parliament membership cards beginning on November 3.
Meanwhile, High Elections Committee Chairman AyaanAbbas said that voter turnout abroad in the runoffs was 2.9 percent, with 19,835 Egyptians casting votes in the runoffs.
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Ahram Online , DNE, 10/29/2015
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