18 Official Gazette – Issue No. 9 (bis) March 1, 2015 Whereas the provisions of Article (102) of the present Constitution imposed main controls on legislators which they should adhere to when dividing electoral constituencies, namely, fair representation of the population and governorates, thus ensuring that no governorates or population groups meeting the requirements and regulations set by the legislator and the Constitution are excluded from the division process as well as ensuring that the rights thereof are not undermined in whatsoever form. Furthermore, the principle of equal opportunities shall be applied with regards to the relative weight of votes and the number of population. However, such principle does not mean that the number of persons represented by an HoR member at each constituency shall be arithmetically equal on an absolute basis, since such is practically impossible. Instead, to fulfill such principle, differences between such numbers and the general average of the number of voters represented by an HoR member at the state level shall be reasonable. The average of citizens represented by an HoR member is almost 168,000 citizens, which is the sum of the number of population: 86, 813, 723 plus the number of voters: 54,754,036 on the date of issuance of Decree Law #202/2014 referred to herein, divided by 2 then divided by the number of seats assigned to the individual electoral system: 420 seats. In light of aforesaid facts, and by reviewing the Table (I- Individual System) attached to Presidential Decree Law #202/2014 on the Division of the House of Representatives Elections Constituencies, it is revealed that legislators did not adhere to the principle of fair representation of population or equal representation of voters. Such is illustrated as follows: 1- Cairo Governorate: A representative in Helwan Constituency represents 220,043 citizens according to the aforementioned overall average, while a representative in Al-Gamalia Constituency represents 78,175 citizens and a representative in Al-Mokattam Constituency represents 111,360 citizens. 2- Qaliubiya Governorate: A representative in Tookh Constituency represents 228,226 citizens, while a representative in Qaliob Constituency represents 130,008 citizens. 3- Sharkia Governorate: A representative in Kafr Sakr Constituency represents 214,599 citizens, while a representative in Mashtol Al-Sook Constituency represents 149,154 citizens. 4- Damietta Governorate: A representative in Faraskor Constituency represents 205,991 citizens, while a representative in Al-Zarka Constituency represents 124,291 citizens. 5- Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate: A representative in Al-Hamool Constituency represents 234,493 citizens, while a representative in Beela Constituency represents 104,256 citizens. 6- Gharbia Governorate: A representative in Basyoon Constituency represents 235,970 citizens, while a representative in Kotoor Constituency represents 135,924 citizens. 7- Monufia Governorate: A representative in Berket Al-Saba' Constituency represents 230,341 citizens, while a representative in Al-Shohada Constituency represents 121,943 citizens. 8- Beheira Governorate: A representative in Kom Hamada Constituency represents 240,152 citizens, while a representative in Kafr Al-Dawar City Constituency represents 131,093 citizens and in Damanhour City Constituency 130,997 citizens.

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