File Photo: Egypt's Senate. Al-Ahram
The changes primarily affect the country’s four closed-list electoral districts. Under the new framework, both the East Delta and West Delta districts will lose seats—two and one, respectively—bringing their totals to 13 each.
Meanwhile, the Cairo, South, and Central Delta districts, along with the North, Central, and South Upper Egypt districts, will each gain two seats, raising their totals to 37.
Individual governorate seats will also be adjusted according to updated demographic data. Qalyubia and Beheira will each lose one seat, reducing their totals to five and six, respectively.
Fayoum and Assiut, by contrast, will each gain a seat, bringing their totals to four and five, respectively.
The bill still requires approval by the House of Representatives to become law.
Egypt’s 300-member Senate is structured with one-third of seats filled by closed-list voting, another third by individual candidacy, and the final third appointed by the president.
The current Senate's five-year term expires in October.
Under the constitution, elections for the next Senate must be held within 60 days before the end of the current term.
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