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An Egyptian woman casts her vote at a voting station in Cairo.
After 11 hours of voting, polling stations closed across the country at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT).
An Egyptian rights group reported widespread irregularities in the early hours of the vote, which the electoral commission had pledged would be fair and transparent.
The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights said it observed vote buying and that several candidates were assaulted in the province of Menufiya north of the capital.
Election monitors from civil society groups were also prevented from entering polling stations in the capital and several other provinces, the group said.
Some candidates for the ruling National Democratic Party also transported voters en masse to polling stations, it added.
The house is dominated by the NDP, with opposition groups standing little chance of gaining a significant number of seats.
The High Elections Commission overseeing the vote said 446 candidates were running for 74 seats in 55 constituencies. Fourteen candidates have already been elected unopposed.
Electoral officials said there were few incidents and the vote went smoothly, although the turnout was low and some voters complained their names were not listed despite having registered.
A security official said supporters of a Muslim Brotherhood affiliated candidate opened fire in front of a polling station in Beheira province in the Nile Delta, wounding three policemen. The assailants escaped.
The candidate, Mohammed el-Zayat, announced his withdrawal from the race at a press conference .
The NDP accused two Brotherhood candidates of trying to stuff ballots and said an independent candidate and his supporters attacked a polling station in Daqhiliya province, also in the Delta, with knives and then burned the ballot boxes.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and most organised opposition group in the country, has accused the regime of failing to keep its promise of holding fair elections.
The group, which wants an Islamic state achieved through peaceful means, is officially banned and was fielding around a dozen candidates as independents.
Brotherhood supreme guide Mohammed Badie on Sunday condemned the "corruption and irregularities" in the run-up to the election, saying security officials had removed posters of his movement's candidates and prevented them from campaigning or meeting electors.
Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters were arrested in the run-up to the election, a security official said.
The vote was being held at a time of anxiety over who will succeed veteran President Hosni Mubarak, who turned 82 this year, after he underwent surgery in Germany in March.
Mubarak has not said whether he plans to stand in next year's presidential election. But senior party members have said publicly the NDP wants him to seek a fifth six-year term.
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An Egyptian rights group reported widespread irregularities in the early hours of the vote, which the electoral commission had pledged would be fair and transparent.
The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights said it observed vote buying and that several candidates were assaulted in the province of Menufiya north of the capital.
Election monitors from civil society groups were also prevented from entering polling stations in the capital and several other provinces, the group said.
Some candidates for the ruling National Democratic Party also transported voters en masse to polling stations, it added.
The house is dominated by the NDP, with opposition groups standing little chance of gaining a significant number of seats.
The High Elections Commission overseeing the vote said 446 candidates were running for 74 seats in 55 constituencies. Fourteen candidates have already been elected unopposed.
Electoral officials said there were few incidents and the vote went smoothly, although the turnout was low and some voters complained their names were not listed despite having registered.
A security official said supporters of a Muslim Brotherhood affiliated candidate opened fire in front of a polling station in Beheira province in the Nile Delta, wounding three policemen. The assailants escaped.
The candidate, Mohammed el-Zayat, announced his withdrawal from the race at a press conference .
The NDP accused two Brotherhood candidates of trying to stuff ballots and said an independent candidate and his supporters attacked a polling station in Daqhiliya province, also in the Delta, with knives and then burned the ballot boxes.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and most organised opposition group in the country, has accused the regime of failing to keep its promise of holding fair elections.
The group, which wants an Islamic state achieved through peaceful means, is officially banned and was fielding around a dozen candidates as independents.
Brotherhood supreme guide Mohammed Badie on Sunday condemned the "corruption and irregularities" in the run-up to the election, saying security officials had removed posters of his movement's candidates and prevented them from campaigning or meeting electors.
Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters were arrested in the run-up to the election, a security official said.
The vote was being held at a time of anxiety over who will succeed veteran President Hosni Mubarak, who turned 82 this year, after he underwent surgery in Germany in March.
Mubarak has not said whether he plans to stand in next year's presidential election. But senior party members have said publicly the NDP wants him to seek a fifth six-year term.
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