The election process ran in the three stages from November 7 to December 9, 2005 using single member plurality, with over 32 million registered voters in the 222 constituencies.

Also this authority would replace the wooden ballot boxes with transparent ones (this was done this year), put surveillance cameras inside the polling stations that would provide constant monitoring of the election process (currently under study and is done partially by the media) and to air the vote count live on state television.

Mubarak's regime attempted to tightly control the parliamentary elections in favour of his NDP, where a range of violations were recorded and many people were killed.

[4] In the second phase run-off elections, 26 polling stations were closed down in five Governorates (Alexandria, Port Said, Fayoum, Al-Behira and Qena).

[4] In the second and third rounds, lines of police officers in riot gear blockaded numerous polling stations in Muslim Brotherhood strongholds, where supporters fought back, hurling stones and molotov cocktails.

[2] In one day, security forces killed eight people, while over the course of the elections hundreds of voters were wounded and more than 1000 arrested, mainly supporters of the Brotherhood.