Nour-led Islamist Bloc finishes second in Egypt's 2011–12 election

In the People's Assembly election staggered from November 2011 to January 2012 — Egypt's first after Mubarak's fall — the Salafi Nour party led the "Islamist Bloc" to second place with roughly a quarter of the seats (about 120 of 498), behind the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party. It was the strongest electoral showing by a Salafi force in the Arab world and made Nour the principal rival to the Brotherhood within the Islamist camp.

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Gara, T. (2026). Nour-led Islamist Bloc finishes second in Egypt's 2011–12 election [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/a786890e-6ea0-4f7e-9e81-40b2bc7b177f

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@misc{tayyar-event-a786890e-6ea0-4f7e-9e81-40b2bc7b177f,
  title     = {{Nour-led Islamist Bloc finishes second in Egypt's 2011–12 election}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/a786890e-6ea0-4f7e-9e81-40b2bc7b177f},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2012-01-01. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2012-01-01. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.