Rasha Gafaar was detained at a flat in the Suez Canal city of
Port Said where she was allegedly sending videos to an affiliate of the
Qatar-based network.
Al-Jazeera has been banned from operating inside Egypt.
Four of its journalists are in prison accused of airing false
news and to aiding the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
The trial of three of them - Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste and
Baher Mohamed - is set to resume on Sunday.
A fourth al-Jazeera reporter, Abdullah al-Shami, who works for
the network's Arabic channel, has been detained since August but not charged.
He is on a hunger strike.
Vote boycotted
The interior ministry said police had raided the home of Ms
Gafaar and confiscated a laptop, a mobile phone and other equipment.
It said her material had been aired by al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr,
an Egypt-focused affiliate of the network.
The ministry also accused her of being a member of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Al-Jazeera officials at the channel's headquarters in Doha have
not commented on the arrest, but a report on the Mubasher Misr website
confirmed that she had been detained on Wednesday.
The report said she has been charged with filming polling
stations without any voters during the country's presidential election this
week.
Provisional results say former military chief Abdul Fattah
al-Sisi has overwhelmingly won the vote.
Correspondents say he is eager for the turnout - expected to be
about 46% - to be as high as possible. Islamist and some secular groups
boycotted the vote.
Al-Jazeera has been regularly targeted by the Egyptian
authorities since the 3 July overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
They accuse the network of broadcasting reports sympathetic to
him and his Muslim Brotherhood group, which the government says is a terrorist
group.
Al-Jazeera has consistently denied the allegations.
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