Official national results are expected to be announced on November 30.

"Initial reports indicate that election day has been a success," Anas El Fekky, Egypt's minister of information, said in a statement Sunday.

Egypt's official MENA news service reported that 6,000 members of 76 civil groups were monitoring the elections. The country has rejected international monitoring of the vote as interference in its internal affairs.

Safwat Shareef, the ruling party's general secretary, has said Egypt's election committee and "civil community groups will guarantee free and transparent elections."

The elections commission said that a total of 10 ballot boxes were compromised in the Kafr El-Dadwar district in El-Beheira Governate. At one voting center at a school, three polling stations were attacked by candidate supporters and the ballot boxes were destroyed, the elections commission reported.

About 830 candidates from the ruling National Democratic Party, 250 from the liberal al-Wafd Party and 130 from the Muslim Brotherhood are running for the parliament's 508 seats.

Muslim Brotherhood candidates run as independents because the group is illegal according to Egyptian law, which bans parties based on religion.