1945 Egyptian parliamentary election

none Kingdom of Egypt Parliamentary 1942 Egyptian parliamentary election 1942 1950 Egyptian parliamentary election 1950 9 January 1945 130x130px Ahmad Maher Pasha.jpg Ahmad Maher Pasha Saadist Institutional Party 126 صورة شخصية محمد حسين هيكل.jpg Mohammed Hussein Heikal Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt) 75 Makram Ebeed(1).jpg Makram Ebeid Wafdist Block 47cb70 18 Prime Minister Subsequent Prime Minister Ahmad Maher Pasha Ahmad Maher Pasha Saadist Institutional Party Saadist Institutional Party Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 9 January 1945.Khatib 1954 171 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, the Political Handbook and Atlas of the World 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.Sternberger Vogel Nohlen Landfried 1978 294Sternberger et al. notes that another source mostly agrees except for one seat: 124 Saadist and 30 for the Wafdist BlockVatikiotis P. J. https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderne00vati The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak 1991 Johns Hopkins University Press 4th Baltimore 356https://archive.org/details/politicalhandboo0000edit Political Handbook and Atlas of the World, Parliaments, Parties and Press as of January 1, 1946 Council on Foreign Relations 1946 Mallory Walter H. 53 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.Nassif Magd-ed Din https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.10720/page/31/mode/2up Egypt in 1945 University of Calcutta 1946 Choudhury M. L. Roy 31–32 Party Politics in Egypt, March 1945 Sastri M.A. B.L. Six members of the Muslim Brotherhood ran the election, including its founder Hasan al-Banna who ran in Ismailia, but all candidates lost.Mitchell Richard P. The Society of Muslim Brothers 1969 Oxford University Press 33 Mahir immediately made preparations for a new general election which the Brothers again prepared to contest. Banna again opted for Isma'iliyya, and five of his chief colleagues chose other areas in Egypt intending to campaign on the basis of an 'Islamic programme'. In January 1945 the elections-believed to have been among the more obviously dishonest held in Egypt-took place, and Banna and all the other Brothers were defeated in constituencies where they had been certain of victory. The Political Handbook and Atlas of the World gives the numbers as 125 Saadist, 74 . File:Egypt Parliament 1945.svg Saadist Institutional Party 739717 126 Liberal Constitutional Party 427899 75 Wafdist BlockSplinter party formed by Makrem Ebied after his expulsion from the Wafd Party 354570 18 #47cb70 National Party 67700 7 Independents 173485 38 1770238 3234042 KhatibKhatib 1954 489 Aftermath Parliament sat on 18 January that year and was dissolved on 7 November 1949.Khatib 1954 171 Notes 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 Egypt Egypt Category:Parliamentary elections in Egypt Parliamentary Egypt Egypt Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results