1945 Egyptian parliamentary election

1945 Egyptian parliamentary election

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First party Second party Third party   Leader Ahmad Maher Pasha Mohammed Hussein Heikal Makram Ebeid Party Saadist Liberal Constitutional Wafdist Block Seats won 126 75 18

Prime Minister before election Ahmad Maher Pasha Saadist Subsequent Prime Minister Ahmad Maher Pasha Saadist

Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 9 January 1945. ^[1] Boycotted by the Wafd Party, they resulted in a victory for the Saadist Institutional Party, which won 126 of the 264 seats.

Results

Dolf Sternberger et al and P. J. Vatikiotis give the totals as 125 seats for the Saadist Institutional Party, 74 seats for the Liberal Constitutional Party, 29 for the Wafdist Block, 7 for the National Party and 29 for independents. ^{[2] [a] [3]} Egypt in 1945 has the same figures as except for independents, which it puts at 34, as well as 64 out of 140 Wafdists in the Senate. ^[4]

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Saadist Institutional Party	739,717	41.95	126
	Liberal Constitutional Party	427,899	24.27	75
	Wafdist Block [b]	354,570	20.11	18
	National Party	67,700	3.84	7
	Independents	173,485	9.84	38
Total		1,763,371	100.00	264
Total votes		1,770,238	–
Registered voters/turnout		3,234,042	54.74
Source: Khatib [5]

Aftermath

Parliament sat on 18 January that year and was dissolved on 7 November 1949. ^[1]

Notes

1. Sternberger et al. notes that another source mostly agrees except for one seat: 124 Saadist and 30 for the Wafdist Block
2. Splinter party formed by Makrem Ebied after his expulsion from the Wafd Party

References

1. Khatib 1954, p. 171.
2. Sternberger et al. 1978, p. 294.
3. Vatikiotis, P. J. (1991). The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak (4th ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 356.
4. Nassif, Magd-ed Din (1946). "Party Politics in Egypt, March 1945". In Choudhury, M. L. Roy; Sastri, M.A., B.L. (eds.). Egypt in 1945. University of Calcutta. pp. 31–32.
5. Khatib 1954, p. 489.

Sources

• Khatib, M.F. (1954). The working of parliamentary institutions in Egypt, 1924-1952 (Thesis). University of Edinburgh.
• Sternberger, Dolf; Vogel, Bernhard; Nohlen, Dieter; Landfried, Klaus, eds. (1978). Die Wahl Der Parlamente Und Anderer Staatsorgane: Ein Handbuch (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH.