1940 Afghan parliamentary election

none Afghanistan All seats in the House of the People 1930 parliamentary 1937 Afghan parliamentary election 1937 1943 Afghan parliamentary election 1943 1940 Parliamentary elections were held in Afghanistan in 1940. Electoral system The bicameral parliament consisted of a House of the People whose members were elected for three-year terms, and a House of the Notables whose members were appointed by the king.Nohlen Dieter https://books.google.com/books?id=BVFBXa69tWMC Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume I: Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia Grotz Florian Hartmann Christof 2001 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-153041-8 503–507 en Suffrage was granted to men aged over 20, while candidates were required to be literate and aged 25–70. Civil servants were not able to stand for election.General election for Afghanistan The Times 17 February 1934 In order to vote, voters were required to travel to provincial cities where a public discussion would take place on the candidates. The electoral law required candidates to be elected by "general consent", or if there was a lack of consensus, by plurality vote. Aftermath Abdul Ahad Wardak remained speaker.Constitutional development in Afghanistan Nighat Mehroze Chishti 1998 76–77 References Category:Elections in Afghanistan Afghanistan Parliamentary Category:National Assembly (Afghanistan) Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results