Badawi won 521 votes out of 570 cast, defeating opposition candidate Mahmoud Sami Al-Imam, who received 49 votes, according to official results announced during the session.
The House of Representatives also elected Professor Dr. Assem El-Gazzar, leader of the National Front Party and former Minister of Housing, and Dr. Mohamed Zaki Al-Wahsh as Deputy Speakers
The new members took the constitutional oath on Monday during the opening procedural session at the parliament’s new headquarters in the New Capital, the Egyptian cabinet said.
Abla El-Hawary, 79, the oldest member, chaired the session with the assistance of the two youngest members, Samia El-Hadidy, 25, and Saja Hindi, 25, until the election of the speaker and two deputies.
On Sunday, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi appointed 28 members of the 596-member chamber and asked the House, the parliament’s lower chamber, to convene the first regular session of its third legislative term.
The 28 appointed MPs include former foreign minister Sameh Shoukry; former higher education and scientific research minister Ashraf Al-Shihi; Amr El-Wardany, Dar Al-Ifta’s secretary of fatwa; former head of the Central Auditing Organization Hisham Badawy; and former head of the State Council Adel Azab.
The group also includes 14 women, among them Mirna Arif, general manager of Microsoft Egypt.
The House’s 596 seats include a quarter reserved for women, with 568 elected members split evenly between individual candidates (284) and closed lists (284).
Egypt’s 2025 parliamentary elections were held in two phases over 99 days, from 7 November 2025 to 10 January 2026. The process saw an unusually high number of annulled results, extending the elections beyond the originally scheduled dates.
According to the National Elections Authority (NEA), over 69 million voters were registered nationwide, with more than 22 million casting ballots, marking a turnout of 32.41 percent.
The outgoing House was elected in late 2020 for a five-year term that ended this month.
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