Egyptians will elect a parliament (Peoples Assembly), a senate (Shura Council) and a president. In total around 50 million Egyptians are allowed to vote. Such a large number of people cannot all vote at the same time. Egypt is divided into 27 governorates and the parliamentary elections will be held in three rounds each covering 9 governorates at a time. Parliamentary representatives will be elected between November 28 and January 11th. The Shura Council will be elected between January 29th and March 12th. Finally, presidential elections are expected to take place in July 2012 . Representatives of the people in parliament are elected under a so-called mixed electoral system: voters cast three votes, two votes for individual candidates representing the constituency and one vote for a party list.. Two out of three seats of the seats in parliament will be elected through the party lists, and 1 in 3 seats will go to the directly elected candidates. In total 498 representatives are elected into the Peoples Assembly for a 5-year term.

Voting for the People Assembly actually means voting trice! One vote is for a political party and two votes are for two candidates which are going to represent your district in the People Assembly in person. The People Assembly will consist for 2/3rds of candidates that are elected through a political party and for 1/3rd of candidates that are elected directly.The two ballots that Egyptians are supposed to fill in are translated into seats in two different ways. The Egyptian electoral system uses a majoritarian method to determine which electoral candidate will represent your district in the people assembly. Your vote for the People Assembly on one of the political parties will be counted in a different way, by means of a proportional representation method.

The votes that are casted for the political parties are translated into seats by using quotas. This quota is determined by dividing the total number of votes that are casted in the area with the amount of seats that can be elected by the area. A political party wins a seat in the assembly if for example it receives 2000 votes while the quota for one seat is 1600 votes, leaving this political party with 400 remaining votes. These remaining votes can still bring the party another seat in the assembly, but only if this number of remaining votes is larger than the number of votes from other parties.

The votes that are casted for the political parties are translated into seats by using quotas. This quota is determined by dividing the total number of votes that are casted in the area with the amount of seats that can be elected by the area. A political party wins a seat in the assembly if for example it receives 2000 votes while the quota for one seat is 1600 votes, leaving this political party with 400 remaining votes. These remaining votes can still bring the party another seat in the assembly, but only if this number of remaining votes is larger than the number of votes from other parties.