1950 Egyptian parliamentary election

none Kingdom of Egypt Parliamentary 1945 Egyptian parliamentary election 1945 1957 Egyptian parliamentary election 1957 3 January 1950 (first stage) 10 January 1950 (second stage) 130x130px Mustafa el-Nahhas.PNG Mostafa el-Nahas Wafd Party 226 صورة شخصية محمد حسين هيكل.jpg Mohammed Hussein Heikal Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt) 27 Ibrahim Abdul Hadi Pasha (1948).jpg Ibrahim Abdel Hady Pasha Saadist Institutional Party 28 Prime Minister Subsequent Prime Minister Hussein Sirri Pasha Mostafa el-Nahas Independent politician Wafd Party Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 3 January 1950, with a second round on 10 January.Ries 1999 336 The result was a victory for the Wafd Party. They were the last parliamentary elections that took place under the monarchy, and the last genuinely contested legislative election in Egypt until the election following the Revolution of 2011. Results While all sources agree that the Wafd achieved a majority of seats, there are disagreements on the figures. Nohen et al and Dolf Sternberger et al puts the numbers as 225 Wafd, 28 Saadist, 26 Liberal Constitutionalist, 6 Nationalists, 1 Democratic Socialist and 33 independents, though the latter notes that a different source disagrees on one seat, 226 Wafd and 32 independents.Ries 1999 342Sternberger Vogel Nohlen Landfried 1978 294 P. J. Vatikiotis gave the totals as 288 to the Wafd out of 327 seats, polling at barely 40 percent of the votes, as well as 38 independents, with 2.8 million total votes cast out of 4.1 million voters.Vatikiotis 1991 369, 530 Both the Annual Register and Joel Gordon gives the same figures as Khatib except for the Wafdist deputies - 228.https://www.proquest.com/docview/2131804840 Annual Register: A Review Of Public Events At Home And Abroad, For Year 1950 Aberdeen University Press 1951 Macadam Ivison S. 192 294Gordon Joel 1989 The False Hopes of 1950: The Wafd's Last Hurrah and the Demise of Egypt's Old Order International Journal of Middle East Studies 21 2 pg 195, pg 211 note 10 10.1017/S0020743800032281 0020-7438 The Political Handbook and Atlas of the World gives the numbers as 218 Wafd seats and 39 independents but otherwise agrees with Khatib.http://archive.org/details/politicalhandboo0000walt_w3p4 Political Handbook and Atlas of the World, Parliaments, Parties and Press as of January 1, 1951 Council on Foreign Relations 1952 Mallory Walter H. 60 An article by Moshe Pearlmann in 1950, citing al-Ahram, gives the numbers as: the Wafd at 228 seats with and 1,090,000 votes (44% of the total), independents at 30 seats with about 500,000 votes, the Sa'adists with 28 seats and 428,000 votes, the Liberal-Constitutionalists at 26 seats and 303,000 votes, the National party at 6 seats and the socialists, formerly Young Egypt, with one seat and 7,000 votes.Pearlmann Moshe Feb 1950 The Egyptian Elections Middle Eastern Affairs New York, N.Y Council for Middle Eastern Affairs, INC 1 1 41-48 File: Egypt Parliament 1950.svg Wafd Party 1357206 226 Saadist Institutional Party 406693 28 Liberal Constitutional Party 292444 27 National Party 37512 6 Socialist Party 16499 1 #ff0000 Wafdist Block 0 14803 Independents 362587 31 2496208 4126879 KhatibKhatib 1954 489 Aftermath Parliament sat on 16 January 1950 and was dissolved on 24 March 1952.Khatib 1954 171 References Sources Khatib M.F. The working of parliamentary institutions in Egypt, 1924-1952 University of Edinburgh https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/34029 1954 Die Wahl Der Parlamente Und Anderer Staatsorgane: Ein Handbuch Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1978 Sternberger Dolf de Vogel Bernhard Nohlen Dieter Landfried Klaus Ries Matthias Elections in Africa: A Data Handbook Oxford University Press 1999 Nohlen Dieter Dieter Nohlen Krennerich Michael Thibaut Bernhard Vatikiotis P. J. https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderne00vati The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak 1991 Johns Hopkins University Press 4th Baltimore Egypt Egypt Parliamentary Category:Parliamentary elections in Egypt Egypt Egypt Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results